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00:00:05 ◼   ► From Relay FM, this is Connected, episode 108.

00:00:10 ◼   ► Today's show is brought to you by Casper, Hover, and Braintree.

00:00:14 ◼   ► My name is Myke Hurley, and I am joined by Steven Hackett.

00:00:17 ◼   ► Hello, Steven Hackett.

00:00:18 ◼   ► Hello, Michael Hurley.

00:00:20 ◼   ► And somehow, we are joined by the reviewer himself, Mr Federico Vittucci.

00:00:25 ◼   ► Ciao, Federico.

00:00:26 ◼   ► Ciao, Myke.

00:00:27 ◼   ► Hey, Steven.

00:00:29 ◼   ► I feel very good today. I'm so happy to be here.

00:00:32 ◼   ► It was going to go one or the other way, right? You were ever going to feel great or you were

00:00:36 ◼   ► going to feel terrible because of the amount of work that you've had to do today. Didn't

00:00:40 ◼   ► you write the whole review today? I think that's what it was, right?

00:00:43 ◼   ► Last night actually. That's how tech bloggers do the tech blogging. You do it the night

00:00:49 ◼   ► before so you can have plenty of outtakes the following day. Yeah, that's what you do.

00:00:54 ◼   ► Yeah, I learned.

00:00:55 ◼   ► implemented Google Wave technology so you can update it on the fly right? For

00:00:59 ◼   ► sure yeah I got a whole workflow with with Google Wave, Google Buzz, you know

00:01:03 ◼   ► all the great products. That's awesome. So we are recording, we're recording today

00:01:08 ◼   ► it's iOS 10 release day. What is the date today? Does anybody know? It's 13th of

00:01:13 ◼   ► September, which also means that Federico Vittigi has published the review that

00:01:16 ◼   ► we've been talking about for the last few months and we're gonna talk about

00:01:19 ◼   ► that today. We're gonna talk about iOS 10 as well because we all have some some

00:01:23 ◼   ► hot takes on iOS 10, but we should probably do some follow up to begin the show.

00:01:27 ◼   ► Yeah, so we had a tweet from Jason talking about Super Mario Run, which Federico and

00:01:32 ◼   ► I spoke about last week.

00:01:34 ◼   ► The pricing model of a free download with in-app purchases to unlock all content would

00:01:38 ◼   ► prevent "family sharing" emoji for thumbs down.

00:01:43 ◼   ► Typical Nintendo.

00:01:44 ◼   ► Alright, so someone needs to explain this to me, right?

00:01:47 ◼   ► Because you can restore purchases of in-app purchases, right?

00:01:51 ◼   ► I guess on family sharing it doesn't work. On family sharing you cannot share and you

00:01:54 ◼   ► cannot purchase I think. Right okay. So and restore purchases wouldn't work because it's

00:01:59 ◼   ► different people's devices and IDs. Yeah so I think that if you, I mean a little bit I

00:02:07 ◼   ► looked into this, I mean part of the problem with family sharing is that it's not super

00:02:10 ◼   ► well documented even on an Apple support site but it seems that Jason is right that if you

00:02:17 ◼   ► download this in a family sharing and both of your kids want it, you're going to be purchasing

00:02:22 ◼   ► the an app purchase twice. But again, it's tricky to say. And I don't use family sharing,

00:02:28 ◼   ► I don't think either of you guys do either, do you?

00:02:30 ◼   ► I do use family sharing with Sylvia, yeah. Why are you surprised, Myke?

00:02:37 ◼   ► I'm very surprised.

00:02:38 ◼   ► Yeah, we use family sharing, we share apps from my account, so I'm like the account,

00:02:43 ◼   ► the family owner, the family holder, I'm not sure what's the name. So she can download

00:02:47 ◼   ► apps that I buy. But yeah, you cannot share in-app purchases because it's not allowed.

00:02:52 ◼   ► And I'm actually surprised by the lack of family sharing updates in iOS 10. I only briefly

00:02:57 ◼   ► touched upon this in the review, but there's basically no changes. But yes, I do use family

00:03:02 ◼   ► sharing. It works okay. We can share, like I can pay for my Apple Music subscription

00:03:07 ◼   ► with my account. I can share apps, but free apps with in-app purchase, that's a problem.

00:03:12 ◼   ► You cannot do it.

00:03:13 ◼   ► See I understand that this is a sucky situation but I don't blame Nintendo for this.

00:03:21 ◼   ► Like I understand, Nintendo has a history of terrible technology which means that you

00:03:25 ◼   ► can't share things and there's no accounts and they're changing it going forward.

00:03:29 ◼   ► But I don't think this is a Nintendo problem, I don't think they're doing this to prevent

00:03:33 ◼   ► people from being able to share it, I don't think they're doing this to make people buy

00:03:37 ◼   ► it over and over and over again.

00:03:39 ◼   ► is just an issue with Apple's system as opposed to Nintendo making it a bad thing. Does that

00:03:45 ◼   ► make sense? Like I don't think this is Nintendo being like "haha, I know how we'll get them!"

00:03:49 ◼   ► I just think that they're working within the confines of what Apple has built.

00:03:53 ◼   ► Well maybe there's someone at Nintendo rubbing their hands because they're happy that Family

00:03:57 ◼   ► Sharing has this limitation, but I don't think it's a decision that Nintendo can make. I

00:04:01 ◼   ► mean if you wanna speculate, maybe Nintendo did this on purpose because they know about

00:04:07 ◼   ► this limitation, but it's just something that applies to every developer on the App Store

00:04:12 ◼   ► from sharing limitations. So maybe Nintendo is taking advantage of it, we don't know,

00:04:16 ◼   ► but you know that's the basic truth is that it's a basic limitation of the OS.

00:04:21 ◼   ► So there are some new iOS wallpapers, I think these are the new iOS 10 wallpapers that have

00:04:27 ◼   ► been made for Steven.

00:04:29 ◼   ► Yeah, so if you go to pick your iPhone in the store they're using these images. I don't

00:04:36 ◼   ► I think I've seen these in iOS 10 and the public beta, but maybe they're there now.

00:04:41 ◼   ► And it's like these, I don't know what they're supposed to be, they kind of look like gemstones,

00:04:45 ◼   ► but they also kind of look like bubbles.

00:04:47 ◼   ► I thought they were just like weird liquid color bubbles.

00:04:51 ◼   ► Blobs of color.

00:04:53 ◼   ► Anyways, they're in blue, pink, a color based on an Australian beach name, orange, and purple,

00:05:00 ◼   ► so it's very much like the IMAX.

00:05:02 ◼   ► So Matt sent this to me, a bunch of people sent it to me.

00:05:05 ◼   ► Kind of funny that we returned to those colors.

00:05:07 ◼   ► I've been planning on painting my new office in Australian beach name.

00:05:10 ◼   ► I think it's pronounced "bondee" with a French accent.

00:05:15 ◼   ► Yeah, "bondee".

00:05:16 ◼   ► A "bondee"?

00:05:17 ◼   ► A "bondee", yeah.

00:05:18 ◼   ► Perfect.

00:05:19 ◼   ► Yeah, that's it.

00:05:20 ◼   ► Yeah, it's the French beach, right?

00:05:21 ◼   ► That's the one.

00:05:22 ◼   ► Yeah, that's the one.

00:05:23 ◼   ► What have y'all done?

00:05:24 ◼   ► Sorry, Stephen.

00:05:26 ◼   ► So Myke, you want to make fun of me for this next item?

00:05:29 ◼   ► So everybody was buying 128 gigabyte iPhones, you know, that's something that everybody's

00:05:35 ◼   ► doing this time because it's the nice middle tier that everybody can go for.

00:05:38 ◼   ► We got a nice bunch of space.

00:05:40 ◼   ► And Steven decided to go 128 gigabytes as well, but in his iPod video by putting an

00:05:46 ◼   ► SSD card in it.

00:05:48 ◼   ► And I'm not 100% sure why anybody would do this.

00:05:51 ◼   ► I'm happy you did it, but I don't know why you've done it.

00:05:54 ◼   ► What is it?

00:05:55 ◼   ► I mean, why do I do anything?

00:05:56 ◼   ► there's this there's this little component called the iFlash and

00:06:02 ◼   ► basically you open an iPod take the little spinning hard drive out put this

00:06:06 ◼   ► card in and it takes an SD card or the version that the more expensive version

00:06:10 ◼   ► from what I bought has two SD cards and you put your iPod back together and you

00:06:17 ◼   ► restore it in iTunes and it sees it so mine after formatting is 116 gigs. I will

00:06:23 ◼   ► if you've never opened an iPod it is really difficult like I've opened

00:06:28 ◼   ► computers for a living. I repaired Macs for almost like a seven or eight

00:06:34 ◼   ► years and it is extremely difficult to do an iPod. In fact I have like a huge cut

00:06:40 ◼   ► across the back of two of my fingers from doing this. It's not super pleasant

00:06:44 ◼   ► but now I have a super light super fast with the new battery also put in it

00:06:49 ◼   ► super long-lasting iPod. So this is going to be my car iPod. The one I did have in

00:06:55 ◼   ► the car was acting up and so I decided hey be kind of fun to do something.

00:07:01 ◼   ► Why do you want the car iPod? Like I've seen you use your iPhone with Bluetooth or something.

00:07:05 ◼   ► And I do most of the time but like I don't leave a lot of like kids music and stuff on

00:07:10 ◼   ► my phone and so it's nice to have like our entire library. Now with 128 gig iPhone I've

00:07:14 ◼   ► showing up on Friday, that'll change a little bit. But because I don't stream any music,

00:07:21 ◼   ► sometimes I'm in a situation where somebody wants to hear something I don't have. And

00:07:24 ◼   ► this iPod is ready to take on that mantle. It's an interesting project. It's just really

00:07:31 ◼   ► funny, you know? Because this isn't even like a thing that you're just doing for the lolz.

00:07:38 ◼   ► Like you actually just really want this. And I find that really endearing. I was on an

00:07:44 ◼   ► airplane ride the end of last week going to Portland and my my phone was I needed

00:07:52 ◼   ► to basically reserve the battery I had left in my phone so it was actually off

00:07:55 ◼   ► in my bag and I was listening to music on the iPod and we got up at the end of

00:07:59 ◼   ► the flight and the woman who was sitting next to me was like oh that's really

00:08:03 ◼   ► funny I haven't seen an iPod in a long time and so I said a little moment of

00:08:07 ◼   ► like yep that's that's what I'm doing I'm hanging out like it's 2005 but it

00:08:14 ◼   ► works. iPhone reviews are out. Everybody's been publishing their iPhone reviews

00:08:19 ◼   ► today. Big day for reading stuff. Yeah so, Daring Fireball, The Verge, TechCrunch,

00:08:25 ◼   ► those are the three that I've read so far. It's funny, the reviews seem to be

00:08:31 ◼   ► mostly positive and you know some are more positive than others but there's I

00:08:35 ◼   ► feel like there's an undercurrent and at least a couple of them of if you're

00:08:38 ◼   ► ready for an upgrade this is a great phone but if you're not or if your

00:08:42 ◼   ► phone's okay then wait to next year which I find yeah that's not necessarily

00:08:47 ◼   ► a new thing but it feels a little more pronounced this year. Yeah I a lot of

00:08:53 ◼   ► people as well commenting about the camera you know saying that it's it's

00:08:59 ◼   ► good but not incredible yet right on the on the plus model but I think that it's

00:09:04 ◼   ► just a little addition right and the the zoom thing I'm looking forward to but

00:09:10 ◼   ► the proof is really going to be in the pudding for the portrait mode and it is a shame that

00:09:14 ◼   ► they can't ship this right now.

00:09:15 ◼   ► You know like everybody that I've read so far, like I've read Gruber's review and I

00:09:20 ◼   ► watched the Verges video which is really good, they're kind of saying that we have no idea

00:09:25 ◼   ► what it's going to look like yet, right?

00:09:28 ◼   ► This could be a big feature for the phone but we just don't know if it's going to be

00:09:32 ◼   ► any good, which is a shame.

00:09:34 ◼   ► And also the headphone jack is a thing, people are talking about it, I think it's worth talking

00:09:38 ◼   ► about, I think it's worth thinking about. And I liked kind of Nilay Patel's overall

00:09:44 ◼   ► thing of like, this is a device that's maybe slightly ahead of its time in a few ways and

00:09:49 ◼   ► that can be both a good thing and a bad thing. I think that's a really nice way of thinking

00:09:52 ◼   ► about this device, is it's like it's maybe a little bit further ahead of headphone technology

00:09:57 ◼   ► than it should be, but then also the cameras are further ahead than it should be, right?

00:10:02 ◼   ► If the hardware's further ahead than the software is, it's like a really interesting way to

00:10:06 ◼   ► think about this device but it's also a good thing too like the quad core

00:10:10 ◼   ► processor is ahead of its time like nobody else is doing what they're doing

00:10:13 ◼   ► here. Yeah so I think it's a good way to think about this phone and it might be

00:10:18 ◼   ► like you know like you say the idea that it ends up being that if you can wait a

00:10:21 ◼   ► little bit longer it might be better because everything will start to catch

00:10:25 ◼   ► up after. And I think that's fair right I mean there are going to be people who

00:10:28 ◼   ► find the headphone jack more of a problem than others but I think over

00:10:35 ◼   ► time whether it's the right decision or not kind of will matter less and less as

00:10:39 ◼   ► the world moves on. And that's what Apple does, they make a decision and things get

00:10:43 ◼   ► pushed forward kind of with or without your will or your opinion.

00:10:51 ◼   ► Federica, have you read any of the reviews? I was able to read John Gruber's

00:10:56 ◼   ► and to watch the Verge video and I was surprised by the fact that Apple seeded

00:11:01 ◼   ► pre-production AirPods, you know, units to journalists this week.

00:11:05 ◼   ► But notice how nobody really reviewed the AirPods because they were

00:11:11 ◼   ► not final. So I'm curious to see, like, because everybody seems to be liking them,

00:11:17 ◼   ► but I'm curious to see how they will improve, if they will improve, come the final launch in sometime in October.

00:11:22 ◼   ► Yeah, Nielai said in his review that Apple said he couldn't.

00:11:27 ◼   ► No, no, so I I think then the video it's confusing

00:11:31 ◼   ► I saw somebody on Twitter asked him about that and he says that their policy is not to review non-final products

00:11:37 ◼   ► So I think it was a policy decision, which I would agree with

00:11:41 ◼   ► Yeah, I think that's the right thing to do because they're not probably not ready right? So, you know, they're not done yet

00:11:48 ◼   ► But yeah, you know, it's interesting because everybody seems to be liking those things and I have my reservations

00:11:55 ◼   ► But I'm looking to try them out as well the air pods

00:11:58 ◼   ► It's a shame that we can't get them all on the same day, right?

00:12:01 ◼   ► Like it's clear why Apple gave them to reviewers because it helps with the headphone situation

00:12:08 ◼   ► So it's a shame that we also can't do that

00:12:10 ◼   ► You know, like it's this this device is really weird because there are a bunch of things going on here

00:12:15 ◼   ► But there's a bunch of things we can't do anything with like we can't use the camera to its full potential yet

00:12:20 ◼   ► We can't use the wireless to its full potential yet because we don't have the Apple built

00:12:25 ◼   ► Bluetooth headphones. It's kind of strange. It's kind of strange. Also if you want a black

00:12:30 ◼   ► version you'll have to wait until like, I don't know, 12th of November or something.

00:12:34 ◼   ► Yeah. So yeah. T.G., you didn't pre-order, did you?

00:12:37 ◼   ► No, I didn't pre-order. My plan is to show up sometime during the week at the Apple store,

00:12:43 ◼   ► see what happens.

00:12:44 ◼   ► So hey, do you not know who I am? Like, I'm Federico Vittigi.

00:12:47 ◼   ► No, no.

00:12:48 ◼   ► I wrote this big review, right? Like, where's my phone?

00:12:49 ◼   ► I don't do that. I just show up and hope for the best, basically. I think I'll probably

00:12:55 ◼   ► try to go there late in the morning and see what's left. I mean, if only the 256 gigabyte

00:13:04 ◼   ► model is left, I'll get the one. I don't care. I just don't like doing the pre-order and

00:13:09 ◼   ► then it comes to your house and you've got to wait for shipping. I just want to go to

00:13:12 ◼   ► the store with my credit card and buy an iPhone.

00:13:15 ◼   ► Why didn't you try and reserve though? Because it's not available in Italy this time. It

00:13:20 ◼   ► opens up again on the 17th. Usually what I would do is I would make a reservation, go

00:13:26 ◼   ► there and get the iPhone. That's what I've been doing with the iReserve webpage for the

00:13:31 ◼   ► past couple of years. But it wasn't open this time and Apple put up a notice on the Italian

00:13:35 ◼   ► website that it's going to resume a reservation on the 17th, so at this point I might as well

00:13:40 ◼   ► just go to the store and see what's left. Yeah, and then maybe try and reserve one as

00:13:45 ◼   ► well in case they haven't gone. Yeah. Because this is the first time that Italy is a launch

00:13:50 ◼   ► country, right? Indeed. Indeed it is the first time. So maybe next year you'll get the reserve.

00:13:57 ◼   ► Because the reserve is only a recent thing in the UK, like reserve for launch day. Alright,

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00:15:07 ◼   ► Alright, so today iOS 10 is released and I wanted to spend a little time talking about it

00:15:14 ◼   ► Clearly we don't need to review it because that's been done already

00:15:16 ◼   ► But I figured we could just touch on some of the things that we're all

00:15:21 ◼   ► Excited about some things that we're not so excited about

00:15:24 ◼   ► about. I mean for me at least and I think for everyone, like stickers and iMessage apps

00:15:28 ◼   ► are winning the day. They're like probably going to be the big thing, right?

00:15:32 ◼   ► T.G. you spent a lot of time with this. I think from a consumer perspective would you

00:15:36 ◼   ► agree with that? Like it's going to be the stickers and the iMessage apps?

00:15:39 ◼   ► Oh absolutely. I think there's a huge focus on iMessage and iOS 10. I mean I wrote in

00:15:46 ◼   ► the review I haven't felt as excited about the apps since the beginning basically and

00:15:53 ◼   ► it feels like a new era for apps and sharing with stickers and even emoji to a degree.

00:15:59 ◼   ► There's a whole like iMessage is the blockbuster update in iOS 10 for sure.

00:16:05 ◼   ► So let's talk about a few of them.

00:16:08 ◼   ► Now as we record a bunch of these aren't available in the store so you may need to search your

00:16:13 ◼   ► local app store of choice to get them.

00:16:16 ◼   ► But I found, because the store went live last night and I found the sticker pack which somebody

00:16:21 ◼   ► created by looking through my window. It's called the Hipster Sticker Pack. And the icon

00:16:27 ◼   ► is basically me. And I'm so happy. Yeah it really looks like you. I love it. I'm really

00:16:34 ◼   ► happy with it. And it's got a bunch of things in it like Polaroid cameras and old TVs and

00:16:39 ◼   ► record players and cassettes. It really makes me laugh. And I love it. So that's a cool

00:16:43 ◼   ► one. The Icon Factory have generated an incredible amount of stickers, right? How many packs

00:16:51 ◼   ► that they have for their eco?

00:16:53 ◼   ► - 15, I think 14 or 15.

00:16:55 ◼   ► They're still waiting for review on a bunch of them, I think.

00:16:57 ◼   ► But they have a whole family of stickers, yeah.

00:17:00 ◼   ► - And they're all independent packs, right?

00:17:02 ◼   ► They're not just one app.

00:17:04 ◼   ► - They're doing some interesting things like,

00:17:06 ◼   ► they have independent packs, but if you buy more of them,

00:17:10 ◼   ► you can unlock bonus stickers in other packs.

00:17:13 ◼   ► So they're trying to kinda have this sense

00:17:15 ◼   ► of a sticker family from the same company.

00:17:18 ◼   ► So if you buy more of them,

00:17:20 ◼   ► you can unlock additional stickers in the sticker browser in iMessage.

00:17:24 ◼   ► It's a very interesting idea.

00:17:26 ◼   ► >> And David Lanham is doing something similar, right?

00:17:29 ◼   ► >> David Lanham has teamed up with the folks at Impending.

00:17:34 ◼   ► They do the Fugu game.

00:17:36 ◼   ► I don't know what's the name of the app itself.

00:17:40 ◼   ► And they have created this sticker pack called Sticker Pals.

00:17:44 ◼   ► I think it's still waiting for review, but

00:17:46 ◼   ► it's basically the most amazing illustrations I've ever seen in a sticker pack. It looks

00:17:51 ◼   ► fantastic seriously. And it's got hundreds of stickers and it's not a simple sticker

00:17:57 ◼   ► pack like one of the basic ones that you just basically just see the images and you scroll

00:18:02 ◼   ► and you use a sticker. It's a whole custom sticker app so you got categories in the sticker

00:18:08 ◼   ► view, you can switch between them, there's sound effects, there's animations, there's

00:18:12 ◼   ► There's a way to unlock more stickers with an in-app store so you can buy more.

00:18:17 ◼   ► There's a way to send gifts to people so they can unwrap them.

00:18:21 ◼   ► There's a use of coins, I think.

00:18:24 ◼   ► It's very rich and it's beautiful to look at.

00:18:26 ◼   ► And the sounds are amazing.

00:18:28 ◼   ► It's by far my favorite sticker pack and we're just waiting for it to get approved because

00:18:32 ◼   ► we want to feature it on Mac Stories.

00:18:35 ◼   ► Sounds awesome.

00:18:36 ◼   ► It's awesome.

00:18:37 ◼   ► And I mean, if you love David's style, I mean, it's great.

00:18:40 ◼   ► I truly believe that both David and the IconFactory, I think with the iMessage sticker packs, they've

00:18:45 ◼   ► found really a new avenue to show off their work. It's amazing.

00:18:50 ◼   ► So I guess between the IconFactory one and the David Lanham one, you can see the different

00:18:56 ◼   ► ways that you can do this stuff. I know that even the IconFactory ones are built like independent

00:19:01 ◼   ► applications, but they are effectively just each pack, they just have different colors

00:19:05 ◼   ► in the background, but then the sticker piles one is like a full iMessage application which

00:19:11 ◼   ► has stickers in it, because there are a couple of different ways you can do it, right?

00:19:14 ◼   ► >> Yeah. You can do a basic sticker pack, which only requires you to drop a bunch of

00:19:19 ◼   ► image files into Xcode, create a new simple sticker pack project, you drag and drop images

00:19:25 ◼   ► and you create a sticker pack. You have basic control over a few settings, but then you

00:19:29 ◼   ► can also use the messages framework to create a sticker app that has a custom sticker browser,

00:19:34 ◼   ► And that's where you can unlock more functionality, and that's where you're going to see developers

00:19:37 ◼   ► experiment a little more with crazy ideas, such as, for example, navigation, sounds,

00:19:42 ◼   ► custom effects.

00:19:43 ◼   ► And just in general, you can access more features because you can create a full iOS app.

00:19:48 ◼   ► You can access iOS frameworks, and you just implement the sticker behavior.

00:19:53 ◼   ► So you can create an iMessage app that is primarily a sticker browser, but also with

00:19:57 ◼   ► a few additions with a few extra features that can complement the experience and make

00:20:01 ◼   ► it a little more special, make it richer.

00:20:04 ◼   ► And that's what you're going to see with the sticker pads, with the other sticker apps

00:20:07 ◼   ► on the App Store.

00:20:08 ◼   ► It's difficult to explain, but I feel like you don't need to explain this difference

00:20:11 ◼   ► to users, because there's a sticker pack that's only a bunch of images, and then there's a

00:20:15 ◼   ► sticker app with a lot more functionalities.

00:20:18 ◼   ► And I mean, if you're an artist and you just want to create some stickers, the basic sticker

00:20:23 ◼   ► packs are fine, you know, because they give you an opportunity to be on the message App

00:20:26 ◼   ► Store.

00:20:27 ◼   ► And there's also a third way to offer stickers, which is you can build an extension to an

00:20:32 ◼   ► existing iOS app. So what we're going to see, what we're already seeing on the iMessage App Store,

00:20:37 ◼   ► all of those like Kimoji, JustMoji, custom keyboards for iOS 9, they used to be

00:20:43 ◼   ► confused with emoji by people, but actually don't generate emoji, they're just like custom images,

00:20:49 ◼   ► those are going to offer iMessage extensions. So you can still buy the app from the regular iOS App

00:20:55 ◼   ► Store, so Kimoji or JustMoji for example, but those apps can bundle an iMessage extension so

00:21:01 ◼   ► so that you can use stickers in iMessage.

00:21:03 ◼   ► And there's a, you know, this way of giving developers

00:21:05 ◼   ► a few options to offer extensions,

00:21:09 ◼   ► it's like the underlying theme of iOS 10.

00:21:11 ◼   ► It's all about extensions.

00:21:13 ◼   ► - And it means that there will be lots and lots

00:21:15 ◼   ► and lots of them, right?

00:21:16 ◼   ► Like every game I have is getting updates,

00:21:18 ◼   ► like with stickers.

00:21:20 ◼   ► And there are a couple of other cool ones.

00:21:21 ◼   ► Mario is great.

00:21:23 ◼   ► There's a Mario sticker pack.

00:21:24 ◼   ► There's an amazing Star Wars one.

00:21:26 ◼   ► So that'll be in the show notes too.

00:21:30 ◼   ► Have you guys run into the fun iPad multitasking bug with stickers?

00:21:35 ◼   ► It is not fun.

00:21:36 ◼   ► So my understanding is from best I can tell is if you are if you are multitasking with

00:21:40 ◼   ► messages you can't drag stickers up into the conversation and attach them to message bubbles

00:21:45 ◼   ► which is was really infuriating because I it took me a minute to realize what was happening

00:21:50 ◼   ► but if your message is full screen it works.

00:21:52 ◼   ► Fredrick have you heard anything about that bug or why it's happening or maybe when we'll

00:21:57 ◼   ► see a resolution?

00:21:59 ◼   ► I haven't heard anything honestly, I just guess it's one of those bugs that got left

00:22:04 ◼   ► over in the final release and it's probably going to get fixed with a manual update.

00:22:08 ◼   ► But it's still very annoying, especially if you use messages on the iPad Pro in SplitView

00:22:12 ◼   ► so that you're working and you're trying to do something else, for example prepare show

00:22:16 ◼   ► notes and you want to discuss with Myke Hurley for instance, and you want to use stickers

00:22:21 ◼   ► in SplitView while you can.

00:22:22 ◼   ► This is the only way I communicate.

00:22:23 ◼   ► It's very annoying.

00:22:24 ◼   ► I know, I know.

00:22:25 ◼   ► It makes me really sad because I mostly use messages in Split View because I do it on

00:22:31 ◼   ► my iPads and I can't use, I can't drag the stickers, I have to close my other application,

00:22:36 ◼   ► it's really annoying.

00:22:39 ◼   ► Before we move off stickers though, I mean the elephant in the room, we are making stickers.

00:22:45 ◼   ► There is going to be a Relay FM sticker pack which will be bundled with our Relay FM application.

00:22:51 ◼   ► It's in the works.

00:22:52 ◼   ► We don't have a date yet but it's coming.

00:22:54 ◼   ► we have some amazing sticker designs and we're gonna have one sums that we'll be able to

00:22:58 ◼   ► add in over time but we're working on it. So you can rest assured that we will tell

00:23:04 ◼   ► you when it's happened but if you want to get ahead of the curve just go download the

00:23:08 ◼   ► Relay FM app, I'll put a link in the show notes and then as soon as it's updated there'll

00:23:12 ◼   ► be some amazing stickers in there for you.

00:23:16 ◼   ► Should we talk about applications? Any cool like iMessage apps? The carrot weather one

00:23:21 ◼   ► I really like, mainly because I just love Carrot Weather, it's my favorite weather application.

00:23:28 ◼   ► I think that one works pretty well, you can show people forecasts and stuff and it's got

00:23:35 ◼   ► a pretty nice view, it just looks like the Carrot Weather app within iMessage which is

00:23:39 ◼   ► quite cool.

00:23:42 ◼   ► One of my other favorites is one called Emoji Stickers, is that in the App Store yet Federico?

00:23:48 ◼   ► emoji stickers i don't know because i checked earlier today and it still wasn't live

00:23:53 ◼   ► okay well emoji stickers is an application that allows you to create your own custom

00:24:01 ◼   ► stickers out of the emoji one set and so i've been doing this to like create my own custom

00:24:09 ◼   ► emoji stickers you can build them with other emoji so you take like the nerd face emoji

00:24:15 ◼   ► and put a UK flag behind him and then you have a little mic sticker to put everywhere.

00:24:20 ◼   ► It's one of my very, very favorites. I was on the beta for it for a bit and I have been

00:24:25 ◼   ► using this one like every single day. I think it's awesome.

00:24:28 ◼   ► Real time follow up from John Voorhees says emoji stickers is in the app store now. So

00:24:33 ◼   ► it's live on the MSA app store. Yeah. So very cool. I mean you can mix and match this emoji

00:24:39 ◼   ► characters. I've been making pineapple pizza stickers or Italian stickers with an Italian

00:24:45 ◼   ► man eating pasta for example. I think it's a feature somewhere on Mac stories. Yeah,

00:24:50 ◼   ► it's very fun.

00:24:51 ◼   ► So that's one that I really like. And that's like another example of combining apps and

00:24:56 ◼   ► stickers together. There was one that I haven't played with too much, but I think it's kind

00:25:00 ◼   ► of cool, which is Do With Me. Can you explain what Do With Me is, Federico?

00:25:05 ◼   ► So Do With Me is one type of iMessage app that I think we're going to see quite often

00:25:09 ◼   ► in the next few months.

00:25:11 ◼   ► It's a collaborative iMessage app and it's a shared to-do list.

00:25:15 ◼   ► So one of the features that is probably the most difficult part of the review to explain,

00:25:21 ◼   ► you can build, as a developer, you can build collaborative iMessage apps to let multiple

00:25:26 ◼   ► participants in a conversation collaborate on the same interactive message.

00:25:31 ◼   ► So an interactive message is a message bubble that you can tap on and open a custom view,

00:25:35 ◼   ► open an app.

00:25:36 ◼   ► And with collaborative apps such as Do With Me, you can, for example, create a to-do list,

00:25:42 ◼   ► you share it on iMessage, and then on the other end, the user, you know, your friend

00:25:47 ◼   ► taps on the message bubble and it opens the to-do list and they can add new items to this

00:25:53 ◼   ► list.

00:25:54 ◼   ► So for example, let's say you're planning a grocery list with your partner, you can

00:25:58 ◼   ► share this message bubble with "Do with me" on iMessage, then you can add a bunch of items.

00:26:03 ◼   ► The other end can add more items to your shopping list, resend the message, and it's going to

00:26:07 ◼   ► update, showing you the complete list of items added by multiple participants in a conversation.

00:26:13 ◼   ► And if you think about this, the possible implementations of collaboration in iMessage

00:26:19 ◼   ► for shopping lists in the family, I mean, that's going to be an obvious one, but even

00:26:22 ◼   ► task managers to share a specific list with multiple people, for example.

00:26:28 ◼   ► And it's another way for developers to offer specific functionality outside of the scope

00:26:34 ◼   ► of the main app, where people actually talk with each other.

00:26:38 ◼   ► So task managers often have collaboration features built in with messaging, but now

00:26:45 ◼   ► you can use the messaging app that a lot of people actually use on a daily basis.

00:26:49 ◼   ► I mean, I don't talk with Myke on to-do lists, I talk with Myke on iMessage.

00:26:53 ◼   ► So now these apps can offer a shared to-do list on iMessage.

00:26:57 ◼   ► And it's not the, I mean, it doesn't have all of the functionalities of the main app,

00:27:01 ◼   ► but it's a fun, quick way to, you know, share specific bits of data and collaborate with

00:27:05 ◼   ► people inside a conversation.

00:27:06 ◼   ► Seeing this sort of stuff, it like, it builds a dream for me where like I could have my

00:27:11 ◼   ► to-do list app, but then a specific list could be shared with an individual and that data

00:27:15 ◼   ► could sync between the messages and the application, right?

00:27:19 ◼   ► So let's say for example that me and Federico were planning something for remaster.

00:27:24 ◼   ► I could have it in my task manager, he could have it in his task manager, but it's also

00:27:28 ◼   ► in the messages app so we can go in there together to collaborate and all of that data

00:27:32 ◼   ► is shared across.

00:27:33 ◼   ► That could be where we're going here and it would be glorious.

00:27:37 ◼   ► It gives messages as like a base for collaboration.

00:27:43 ◼   ► There is the base, there is the main way that people will collaborate and then they use

00:27:47 ◼   ► the applications within it to do that. Whilst we're talking about the

00:27:51 ◼   ► applications, the UI really needs some work here and it is not scaling very

00:27:56 ◼   ► well even on day one right? Like the picker breaks really fast so like you

00:28:00 ◼   ► you have like the the pains that you swipe between. Basically everybody I

00:28:05 ◼   ► think by the end of the day will have broken that UI where like the little

00:28:10 ◼   ► dots to indicate the different apps kind of start to sneak underneath other

00:28:15 ◼   ► images, other pieces of interface.

00:28:20 ◼   ► It's one of the most problematic aspects of the iMessage app situation is the whole app

00:28:25 ◼   ► switching UI.

00:28:27 ◼   ► It doesn't scale to over 30 apps.

00:28:30 ◼   ► It's clearly broken because the indicators at the bottom overflow over the edges of the

00:28:35 ◼   ► screen.

00:28:37 ◼   ► But at a more fundamental level, I feel like it's not just the visual glitches and the

00:28:42 ◼   ► bugs, it's just the whole idea of too many tabs involved to switch between

00:28:47 ◼   ► iMessage apps and stickers, especially when you consider how Facebook Messenger

00:28:50 ◼   ► for example allows users to have like a custom bar at the top of a messenger

00:28:56 ◼   ► with shortcuts to apps and other features. And I feel like in this first

00:29:01 ◼   ► version it's a repeat of the slide-over problem from last year with the iPad

00:29:06 ◼   ► multitasking, the way that you choose apps. It's very slow, it's very limited and

00:29:10 ◼   ► and it's not customizable at all.

00:29:12 ◼   ► And I feel like Apple needs to rethink the entire idea

00:29:17 ◼   ► of how you switch between apps in multitasking on the iPad,

00:29:20 ◼   ► and at the same time, how you switch between apps

00:29:22 ◼   ► and stickers on iMessage.

00:29:24 ◼   ► Because right now, they're kind of forcing you to go,

00:29:26 ◼   ► at least over with two or three taps,

00:29:29 ◼   ► to switch from a normal text conversation

00:29:32 ◼   ► to the iMessage app driver.

00:29:34 ◼   ► Instead, I would like to be able to remove

00:29:37 ◼   ► the digital touch shortcut,

00:29:39 ◼   ► which I don't think a lot of people will use,

00:29:41 ◼   ► and put up my own shortcuts

00:29:44 ◼   ► next to the iMessage text field.

00:29:46 ◼   ► So I can, for example,

00:29:47 ◼   ► quickly access my favorite stickers

00:29:48 ◼   ► or quickly access my favorite to-do list.

00:29:51 ◼   ► And I mean, if you wanna go the extra mile,

00:29:54 ◼   ► you could even allow per conversation app shortcuts.

00:29:58 ◼   ► So for example, when I talk to Myke,

00:29:59 ◼   ► I could have specific shortcuts to-do lists or some stickers.

00:30:02 ◼   ► And when I talk to my mom,

00:30:04 ◼   ► I could have dog stickers, for example.

00:30:06 ◼   ► But that's just thinking way ahead.

00:30:08 ◼   ► For now, even just basic fix for the iMessage app indicators that would go a long way.

00:30:14 ◼   ► Something that had been driving me crazy, and I'd only just worked out what the problem

00:30:17 ◼   ► was last night, was I would open the app thing and go to the home screen looking view and

00:30:23 ◼   ► rearrange them, right?

00:30:25 ◼   ► To the order that I wanted them in.

00:30:26 ◼   ► Then I would go to the view where you're just kind of swiping through the pages and it wasn't

00:30:30 ◼   ► in the same order.

00:30:32 ◼   ► And the whole time I'd been driving myself crazy.

00:30:34 ◼   ► Like, I'm reordering them, why are they not keeping the order?

00:30:37 ◼   ► I kept asking Federico about this, but now I've worked out that they're completely independent

00:30:41 ◼   ► of each other, right?

00:30:43 ◼   ► Like the order that you set in like the home screen view where you have the little bubbles

00:30:47 ◼   ► doesn't equate to the view where you're swiping through pages.

00:30:51 ◼   ► It's maddening.

00:30:52 ◼   ► Truly maddening.

00:30:53 ◼   ► Like it doesn't make any sense to me.

00:30:54 ◼   ► Like what is judging the other view?

00:30:57 ◼   ► And like why would I be, like what's the point in me rearranging this stuff if it doesn't

00:31:01 ◼   ► keep it?

00:31:02 ◼   ► Like those two things shouldn't be independent.

00:31:05 ◼   ► doesn't make any sense to me. Is it like recency or something that dictates the

00:31:10 ◼   ► overview? I think best I can tell it may be the number of times you've used that

00:31:16 ◼   ► sticker pack but I don't even I'm not even sure about that. I mean it feels

00:31:21 ◼   ► like this whole little section of the UI was clearly developed before any

00:31:25 ◼   ► third-party stuff was available and you know Apple had what three four five

00:31:30 ◼   ► sticker packs available in the during the beta and maybe they just didn't test it

00:31:35 ◼   ► past that or consider what would happen past that which is a startling oversight

00:31:40 ◼   ► but one my guess is they're gonna see this today and that this would be fixed

00:31:44 ◼   ► in the next you know the next update well I'd be surprised Federico has been

00:31:50 ◼   ► tweeting about this for like a month right like yeah I think it was very difficult yeah I mean

00:31:56 ◼   ► there is an app wise a history of this right like they release iOS and when

00:32:00 ◼   ► people actually get it they break it in an interesting way but this one I just I

00:32:04 ◼   ► don't give them the credit of that. Like, this is an easy problem to foresee. I

00:32:08 ◼   ► just, I don't see how they got this way. They're like, "Oh, there'll only ever be

00:32:12 ◼   ► five sticker packs." Like, did they expect that? I feel like we need to sit down at Apple with

00:32:19 ◼   ► some Apple engineers, Apple designers, and say, "Look, you've got to rethink the way

00:32:23 ◼   ► that you think people switch between apps." Because the slide-over app picker,

00:32:27 ◼   ► the iMessage app door, like, there has to be a better way to move between apps and

00:32:33 ◼   ► and let's rethink it all.

00:32:36 ◼   ► It's kinda crazy to me that the slide over

00:32:39 ◼   ► multitasking UI on the iPad more than a year later

00:32:42 ◼   ► still designed that way.

00:32:44 ◼   ► Doesn't make any sense.

00:32:45 ◼   ► It shows you three apps at the same time

00:32:47 ◼   ► and you gotta swipe and swipe it, there's no search bar.

00:32:49 ◼   ► And on iMessage, how could you not imagine

00:32:52 ◼   ► that on day one users would just buy them all

00:32:55 ◼   ► and download them all just out of curiosity?

00:32:58 ◼   ► How can you miss that?

00:33:00 ◼   ► And it's somewhat concerning,

00:33:02 ◼   ► But at least they're fun.

00:33:05 ◼   ► So I think the cuteness of the stickers

00:33:08 ◼   ► kinda balances out the visual problems.

00:33:11 ◼   ► - Let's talk about some other things.

00:33:14 ◼   ► So 3D Touch has been significantly enhanced

00:33:17 ◼   ► throughout iOS with 10.

00:33:20 ◼   ► Federico, can you give a brief overview

00:33:23 ◼   ► as to what 3D Touch can give you if you have an iPhone?

00:33:28 ◼   ► There's a bunch of 3D touch additions in iOS 10.

00:33:33 ◼   ► Perhaps the most visible one is the widgets

00:33:36 ◼   ► on the home screen, which I don't fully understand,

00:33:38 ◼   ► but still, if you press on an app,

00:33:42 ◼   ► besides the quick actions that were added last year,

00:33:45 ◼   ► you can now view the same widget in compact mode

00:33:49 ◼   ► that you view in the search screen or notification center.

00:33:52 ◼   ► There's also a lot of 3D touch shortcuts across the system.

00:33:57 ◼   ► You can press on the clear icon in Notification Center

00:34:00 ◼   ► to clear all notifications at once, like on the Apple Watch.

00:34:03 ◼   ► There's plenty of use of 3D Touch in the new Apple Music app.

00:34:07 ◼   ► So you can press on Songs to open a menu.

00:34:10 ◼   ► You can press on the Now Playing Bar

00:34:11 ◼   ► to open a contextual menu.

00:34:13 ◼   ► There's 3D Touch in Messages.

00:34:17 ◼   ► If you press on a person avatar at the top

00:34:20 ◼   ► to open shortcuts, there's 3D Touch in Contacts even more,

00:34:24 ◼   ► in Maps to open contextual menus for locations,

00:34:27 ◼   ► And in general, it feels like Apple is using 3D touch

00:34:30 ◼   ► in a more deliberate way

00:34:32 ◼   ► as a contextual menu/time saver solution.

00:34:37 ◼   ► Instead of basing entire interfaces on 3D touch,

00:34:40 ◼   ► they're kind of doing it to save time.

00:34:43 ◼   ► And perhaps this is best exemplified by notifications.

00:34:46 ◼   ► So you can swipe down on notification to expand it,

00:34:49 ◼   ► but you can also press on it.

00:34:51 ◼   ► So if you just pick up your phone

00:34:52 ◼   ► and you don't have to press any button to wake it from,

00:34:55 ◼   ► you know, from sleep because there's race to wake in iOS 10,

00:34:58 ◼   ► there's a bunch of notifications on the lock screen.

00:35:00 ◼   ► You can just press on a notification

00:35:02 ◼   ► to pop up a bigger preview

00:35:04 ◼   ► if an app has been updated for iOS 10.

00:35:06 ◼   ► And it feels like when you consider 3D touch

00:35:09 ◼   ► and the upcoming optics on the iPhone 7,

00:35:13 ◼   ► there's a lot of potential for apps

00:35:14 ◼   ► to gain a more physical kind of feel.

00:35:18 ◼   ► And it's one of the things that I wanna test

00:35:20 ◼   ► as soon as I get an iPhone 7.

00:35:22 ◼   ► You know, this combination of 3D touch

00:35:25 ◼   ► and the Taptic Engine kind of opens up a new dimension for apps on the iPhone, which of

00:35:31 ◼   ► course begs the question, what's going to happen with the iPad?

00:35:33 ◼   ► Because as Apple keeps adding more and more 3D Touch features on the iPhone, the iPad,

00:35:38 ◼   ► which doesn't have 3D Touch, is going to be left out.

00:35:41 ◼   ► And for now, Apple, again, is using the fallback option of swipes and long presses to replace

00:35:48 ◼   ► 3D Touch.

00:35:49 ◼   ► But how long until Apple is like, we want to do these 3D Touch only functionalities

00:35:54 ◼   ► the iPhone can we do the same on the iPad or should we just cut the feature

00:35:57 ◼   ► from the iPad and do it on on the iPhone only that's gonna be one of the things

00:36:02 ◼   ► to follow going forward how do they balance this 3d touch on the iPhone non

00:36:06 ◼   ► 3d touch on the iPad yeah it's gonna be interesting to see yeah I mean I sort of

00:36:12 ◼   ► worried that they're a little ahead of the curve with that they show a lot of

00:36:16 ◼   ► iPhones out there a lot of old iPads in fact just yesterday someone who has I

00:36:21 ◼   ► think a I guess a six you know just had just updated to the iOS 10 beta just a

00:36:27 ◼   ► couple of days ago and we're like asking me like they were like trying to

00:36:30 ◼   ► understand how they did certain things with that on my phone with 3d touch are

00:36:35 ◼   ► very simple and so there's that tension there right of trying to pull ahead with

00:36:39 ◼   ► this feature but still needing support a huge base of devices that are less than

00:36:44 ◼   ► a over a year old but um all in all I can think I think they're the way

00:36:49 ◼   ► they're applying 3D touch is is really interesting that I don't think anything

00:36:54 ◼   ► that requires 3D touch like if you didn't know it was there you could still

00:36:58 ◼   ► do everything but it's sort of that that extra layer of flexibility and and

00:37:04 ◼   ► options to treat things differently if you know it is there so I'm okay with

00:37:09 ◼   ► the balance they've struck but I have a phone that supports it I don't know if

00:37:13 ◼   ► I'd feel differently if I was on a phone without 3D touch.

00:37:17 ◼   ► Professor Tichy, I need your help.

00:37:21 ◼   ► Okay.

00:37:22 ◼   ► How does the lock screen work?

00:37:25 ◼   ► Okay, so, the slide to unlock is gone.

00:37:29 ◼   ► So now when you swipe on the lock screen, you don't unlock the phone anymore.

00:37:33 ◼   ► At least you don't bring up the passcode anymore, you bring up the search screen, which is a spotlight and widgets.

00:37:39 ◼   ► So, on the lock screen, there's a new message at the bottom that says "Press home to unlock".

00:37:46 ◼   ► and from a technical perspective there's a difference here to understand. So Apple

00:37:53 ◼   ► tells you press the home button to unlock your phone because that's an

00:37:57 ◼   ► illusion that they can sell to users. It's easy to understand, press the home

00:38:01 ◼   ► button and with Touch ID you unlock the phone. But actually the unlocking, so the

00:38:08 ◼   ► authentication and leaving the lock screen are two separate actions. So you

00:38:14 ◼   ► You can just place your finger on the Touch ID sensor without clicking the Home button,

00:38:19 ◼   ► and you're going to unlock your phone. You're going to authenticate into Touch ID.

00:38:23 ◼   ► So don't think of unlocking as leaving the lock screen. Think of the verb "unlocking" as giving access to my credentials.

00:38:31 ◼   ► So you can unlock the phone without clicking the Home button.

00:38:35 ◼   ► And when you do so, you're going to see the padlock in the status bar with an animation be unlocked.

00:38:41 ◼   ► So why would you want to unlock the phone without leaving the lock screen?

00:38:46 ◼   ► Maybe it's a notification that requires a confirmation from you, such as deleting an

00:38:51 ◼   ► email message, or a widget that wants to show your personal data, but it's on the lock screen,

00:38:56 ◼   ► so of course it needs to make sure that it's really you.

00:38:59 ◼   ► So you can place your finger on Touch ID, you're going to unlock the phone, but you're

00:39:02 ◼   ► not going to leave the lock screen.

00:39:05 ◼   ► Or you can, in one go, place your finger on the home button and click it.

00:39:11 ◼   ► And when you click it, two things are actually going on.

00:39:14 ◼   ► It's reading your touch ID and it's registering the click as your intention to say, "Okay,

00:39:19 ◼   ► I want to leave the lock screen, take me to the home screen."

00:39:21 ◼   ► So Apple tells you with a single message, "Press Home to unlock," but behind the scenes,

00:39:26 ◼   ► it's a two-step process.

00:39:28 ◼   ► You can try this for yourself.

00:39:29 ◼   ► It's very easy.

00:39:30 ◼   ► Place your finger on touch ID and it's going to authenticate you.

00:39:33 ◼   ► going to see the padlock in the status bar be unlocked. Then with another finger, even

00:39:38 ◼   ► your pinky, you know, just click the home button and you're going to leave the lock

00:39:42 ◼   ► screen. That's because it's a two-step process. The first step is Touch ID, the second step

00:39:47 ◼   ► is clicking the home button. But Apple doesn't tell you so because it just says "Press Home

00:39:51 ◼   ► to unlock." Because on the second generation Touch ID, the Touch ID is so accurate, when

00:39:56 ◼   ► you click it, it also registers Touch ID. It doesn't fail, so it incorporates two steps

00:40:02 ◼   ► into one action.

00:40:03 ◼   ► So now to get to the home screen, I pick up my phone and push the button, right?

00:40:09 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:40:10 ◼   ► Okay.

00:40:11 ◼   ► So it's very, it is different in a way.

00:40:13 ◼   ► I mean, but it's, it's the, it's in the reverse.

00:40:15 ◼   ► Cause I mean, that's how I've been getting to my phone since Touch ID came around, right?

00:40:19 ◼   ► Like I would click it to wake the phone and then the Touch ID would authenticate and I

00:40:25 ◼   ► would get into the phone, right?

00:40:27 ◼   ► Yes.

00:40:28 ◼   ► But now it's doing it kind of in the opposite way around because the raise to wake should

00:40:33 ◼   ► be waking the phone, then the Touch ID unlocks the phone, and then the push gets me to the

00:40:39 ◼   ► phone. So it's the same actions, but in a kind of a reversed order.

00:40:46 ◼   ► That's pretty much it, yeah. And the reason is, Apple wants you to be able to use the

00:40:50 ◼   ► lock screen without the risk of unlocking a device. So if you count all of the different

00:40:57 ◼   ► changes going on, so there's race to wake, so you no longer need to click any button,

00:41:01 ◼   ► whether it's the sleep button or the home one.

00:41:04 ◼   ► So there's race to wake,

00:41:05 ◼   ► and then they want you to be able to stay on the lock screen

00:41:08 ◼   ► without leaving the lock screen

00:41:09 ◼   ► and jumping into the home screen.

00:41:11 ◼   ► But at the same time, how can you handle authentication?

00:41:14 ◼   ► Because if there's a widget

00:41:16 ◼   ► that shows you your personal health data, for example,

00:41:18 ◼   ► you don't want that to be available to anyone

00:41:20 ◼   ► who picks up your phone and swipes, right?

00:41:22 ◼   ► So they're gonna have, they needed to unbundle

00:41:26 ◼   ► the unlocking and authentication behavior.

00:41:30 ◼   ► But at the same time, they're telling you with a single message at the bottom of the lock screen.

00:41:36 ◼   ► In fact, if you just authenticate with Touch ID, besides the lock animation in the status bar, the message at the bottom also changes.

00:41:46 ◼   ► So when it's not authenticated, it says "Press Home to unlock". When it's authenticated, it says "Press Home to open".

00:41:53 ◼   ► Because it takes you, it opens the lock screen and it takes you to the home screen.

00:41:58 ◼   ► going to take some getting used to. Yeah, but you'll get used to it. Is it really useful

00:42:04 ◼   ► though to unlock it and see the widgets? Like is it actually useful? Well it depends, right?

00:42:09 ◼   ► It depends on the widgets that you keep installed, it depends on the notifications, the actions

00:42:14 ◼   ► that you want to use. And I mean of course even for Siri on the lock screen, you know.

00:42:21 ◼   ► It's a different way of thinking about the lock screen because Apple really wants you

00:42:27 ◼   ► to discover that search screen.

00:42:29 ◼   ► In fact, in my lock screen section,

00:42:32 ◼   ► I opened with the first interaction with iOS 10

00:42:34 ◼   ► is likely going to be an accidental swipe,

00:42:37 ◼   ► because a lot of people are going to slide to unlock.

00:42:39 ◼   ► But instead of seeing the passcode screen,

00:42:42 ◼   ► you're going to see the widgets.

00:42:43 ◼   ► So now you're going to be like, oh, OK.

00:42:45 ◼   ► So now I can view widgets here.

00:42:46 ◼   ► That's kind of useful.

00:42:47 ◼   ► And the lock screen experience has

00:42:49 ◼   ► more than a list of missed alerts.

00:42:52 ◼   ► That's what Apple wants you to discover and to hopefully use.

00:42:56 ◼   ► Now we're going to have to see if apps take advantage of that or not.

00:43:00 ◼   ► That's really beautifully real, by the way.

00:43:02 ◼   ► I like that part.

00:43:04 ◼   ► That is how it's going to be.

00:43:05 ◼   ► It's a really good observation.

00:43:07 ◼   ► People are going to do it wrong, and that's going to be their first interaction with the

00:43:12 ◼   ► VyOS.

00:43:13 ◼   ► Yeah, it's a way to increase discoverability by playing on how people are going to get

00:43:17 ◼   ► it wrong.

00:43:18 ◼   ► So you use confusion as a discovery mechanism, in a way.

00:43:25 ◼   ► did this wrong but look widgets are your prize exactly now before we wrap up on

00:43:31 ◼   ► ios 10 Federico you mentioned this a couple of times in your review and

00:43:35 ◼   ► without completely spoiling the review because people should definitely go read

00:43:39 ◼   ► it you mentioned atomic units and like apps breaking up as one being one of the

00:43:44 ◼   ► big themes of ios 10 what does this mean well it means that the idea of an app is

00:43:51 ◼   ► changing, not in the sense that the technical nature of an app is changing, you still download

00:43:58 ◼   ► apps from the App Store, but the idea of increased extensibility, of using, there was a line

00:44:04 ◼   ► from I think from Phil Schiller or Craig Federighi a while ago, people want to use apps where

00:44:11 ◼   ► they want to use them. And in the sense that going past the idea of I'm using an app, I

00:44:19 ◼   ► go back to the home screen, I use another app.

00:44:21 ◼   ► I go back to the home screen, I use another app.

00:44:23 ◼   ► So this jumping back and forth.

00:44:25 ◼   ► Instead, what iOS 10 wants to do is to have app features

00:44:30 ◼   ► come to you in a bunch of different places.

00:44:33 ◼   ► And that kind of transition was started with iOS 8,

00:44:36 ◼   ► was kind of passed in iOS 9,

00:44:38 ◼   ► but now it's back in full speed in iOS 10,

00:44:41 ◼   ► to be able to have app functionalities

00:44:44 ◼   ► in the places where they make the most sense.

00:44:46 ◼   ► And you can see this in the lock screen

00:44:48 ◼   ► and widgets everywhere, spotlight search everywhere,

00:44:52 ◼   ► Siri, Maps extensions.

00:44:54 ◼   ► I mean, you're gonna be able to start

00:44:55 ◼   ► a restaurant reservation in Maps.

00:44:57 ◼   ► So instead of looking up a restaurant in a dedicated app,

00:45:02 ◼   ► you can just go into Maps, look it up,

00:45:04 ◼   ► because that's the app that you use for directions

00:45:06 ◼   ► and to explore, and you're gonna see an app extension there.

00:45:10 ◼   ► There's a whole discussion about Maps extensions,

00:45:12 ◼   ► but that's probably too long.

00:45:14 ◼   ► The idea is, and of course, iMessage, right?

00:45:16 ◼   ► Instead of sharing like a to-do list or weather forecasts,

00:45:20 ◼   ► you can just do it all inside messages.

00:45:22 ◼   ► So this increased modularity, if you will,

00:45:24 ◼   ► of the idea of an app to be able to have

00:45:28 ◼   ► the single app on the home screen, that's for sure,

00:45:30 ◼   ► but also some functionality of that app

00:45:33 ◼   ► embedded into other parts of the system.

00:45:37 ◼   ► So instead of moving back and forth,

00:45:39 ◼   ► you can save time by having contextual features

00:45:44 ◼   ► in the places where they're most useful.

00:45:46 ◼   ► So whether it's iMessage, whether it's Siri,

00:45:48 ◼   ► or the lock screen, widgets, maps, even CarPlay to a degree,

00:45:52 ◼   ► it's a dis-effort to let developers break up their apps

00:45:57 ◼   ► in a bunch of little pieces so users can access those apps

00:46:01 ◼   ► without constantly jumping back and forth

00:46:04 ◼   ► between apps on the home screen.

00:46:05 ◼   ► - So just before we move on

00:46:09 ◼   ► and actually talk about Federico's review,

00:46:12 ◼   ► we're seeing a bunch of reports coming in

00:46:13 ◼   ► from the chatroom that the iOS 10 update is out and it's bricking devices again. So beware,

00:46:19 ◼   ► Apple seem to keep having this problem with every update that they put out that it bricks

00:46:24 ◼   ► devices and there's reports of it doing it to iPads and iPhones so YOLO I guess. This

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00:47:52 ◼   ► So I was thinking about your review Federico and trying to like put in my mind what is

00:47:58 ◼   ► this. Like I don't even think, I think review is a bad word for it now. Like I think that

00:48:05 ◼   ► is the word that we ascribe to these things because it's something that comes out on the

00:48:11 ◼   ► day and it has your opinions in it and it's about the thing. But I think it's a resource

00:48:15 ◼   ► now because of the way that you have changed your style over the last couple of years from

00:48:21 ◼   ► writing a piece that was your opinion to this is the documentation of all of the changes,

00:48:27 ◼   ► they mean and how they work. Like you basically have created part guide, part documentation,

00:48:35 ◼   ► part review. Like it's like a definitive thing which is why it was at 1.5 million words.

00:48:40 ◼   ► Is that what it is? Oh no, did I get that wrong?

00:48:44 ◼   ► It's 50,000 words.

00:48:47 ◼   ► But see that's what I'm saying, right? A 50,000 word review seems huge but if it's a 50,000

00:48:54 ◼   ► resource, that's a totally different thing. And that's how I think of it.

00:49:01 ◼   ► I use "review" in the title because you gotta sell something to people.

00:49:07 ◼   ► It's the understood name for a type of thing.

00:49:09 ◼   ► It's the understood name, but it's just like the iPhone is not a phone. It's just what

00:49:14 ◼   ► people know, right? And it's... I don't look at it as a review or as a guide. I look at

00:49:22 ◼   ► it as a story. And it's a story that's awfully highly descriptive, a little technical in

00:49:28 ◼   ► places where it needs to be, and it's personal. And you can agree or disagree with me, but

00:49:36 ◼   ► it's a story, right? Because it's intermixed with descriptions and overviews and opinions

00:49:45 ◼   ► and testing apps, and it's not the traditional model, I guess, of doing reviews.

00:49:55 ◼   ► It's not just that I'm sitting down with iOS 10 and I'm like "okay, here's what's new,

00:49:58 ◼   ► here's what's changed".

00:50:01 ◼   ► I don't know how to describe it, I just look at it as a story.

00:50:04 ◼   ► It's also why I don't use the review category on Mac Stories for this one, it's stories.

00:50:09 ◼   ► Because it is a story, right?

00:50:11 ◼   ► reviewing it's in the title because you know that's how we can relate to it you

00:50:17 ◼   ► know how everyone can relate to it and I don't know I guess him something that I

00:50:25 ◼   ► want to do every year and last year was the first time and I learned a lot of

00:50:31 ◼   ► lessons and I try to apply those this time and in the process we went a little

00:50:36 ◼   ► little crazy with the final product.

00:50:41 ◼   ► Yeah, so let's talk about that final product.

00:50:43 ◼   ► Like, the website version of the review

00:50:45 ◼   ► is very different this year to previous years.

00:50:49 ◼   ► Yes.

00:50:50 ◼   ► So what we wanted to do is we were looking-- me and Silvia

00:50:55 ◼   ► and Alessandro is my web developer--

00:50:58 ◼   ► we were looking at last year.

00:51:00 ◼   ► And we were talking.

00:51:01 ◼   ► We were like, so this review is pretty good.

00:51:04 ◼   ► There's a lot of content.

00:51:06 ◼   ► but it's also a whole block of text.

00:51:08 ◼   ► And it can be difficult for people

00:51:11 ◼   ► to navigate this block of text

00:51:13 ◼   ► because we added pagination last year,

00:51:16 ◼   ► but still that wasn't enough.

00:51:17 ◼   ► There were, if you were to visually differentiate

00:51:22 ◼   ► the text from the images, it was the,

00:51:26 ◼   ► you know, the scale was tipping all over,

00:51:29 ◼   ► you know, in favor of text.

00:51:31 ◼   ► So this time we asked ourselves,

00:51:35 ◼   ► how can we have an even deeper review

00:51:39 ◼   ► but make you feel lighter when reading the review?

00:51:42 ◼   ► And the answer was we gotta do a whole new design.

00:51:46 ◼   ► And that came with a few aesthetic preferences

00:51:51 ◼   ► but also every one of them I think has a functional role

00:51:57 ◼   ► in the review on the website.

00:51:59 ◼   ► So for example, there's a whole new way

00:52:02 ◼   ► of navigating chapters.

00:52:04 ◼   ► So we built this custom table of contents top bar,

00:52:07 ◼   ► which includes navigation between sections,

00:52:11 ◼   ► a dropdown to view every section

00:52:14 ◼   ► with the page they belong to,

00:52:16 ◼   ► and also an icon to switch between light theme

00:52:19 ◼   ► and dark theme.

00:52:21 ◼   ► We reimagine the idea of chapters and sections.

00:52:26 ◼   ► So every new chapter starts with a cover image

00:52:30 ◼   ► to give you the idea of progress

00:52:32 ◼   ► and to give you the idea of, OK, I'm starting a new chapter.

00:52:36 ◼   ► And titles are all new.

00:52:38 ◼   ► We're going with this new, bold, big font for titles

00:52:43 ◼   ► in the middle of the screen so they clearly stand out.

00:52:46 ◼   ► And you can view your progress from section to section.

00:52:49 ◼   ► We have aside boxes.

00:52:51 ◼   ► So these little information boxes

00:52:53 ◼   ► that can be to the left, to the right, or to the center.

00:52:56 ◼   ► And they contain somewhere in the middle of an aside

00:53:01 ◼   ► and a footnote, but it also contains images.

00:53:05 ◼   ► And it's a way to have information on the side

00:53:08 ◼   ► without making it too hidden, like a footnote,

00:53:12 ◼   ► and also with the same media that we can have,

00:53:15 ◼   ► like images and screenshots and stuff.

00:53:18 ◼   ► Then we were looking at it as we went through the design,

00:53:22 ◼   ► and we also considered all of these design changes in iOS 10.

00:53:27 ◼   ► It's fine to show them with screenshots and images,

00:53:30 ◼   ► but we need to do animations as well.

00:53:32 ◼   ► And how can we do animations?

00:53:33 ◼   ► We didn't want to have GIFs in the review

00:53:37 ◼   ► because GIFs are computationally intensive.

00:53:39 ◼   ► They take up a lot of space on the CDN.

00:53:41 ◼   ► And thankfully, Apple is shipping a WebKit change in iOS 10

00:53:46 ◼   ► where MP4, actually H.264 videos can autoplay like GIFs.

00:53:52 ◼   ► And Apple had a post on the WebKit blog

00:53:56 ◼   ► about using H.264 video as a GIF replacement.

00:54:00 ◼   ► And we've been using that, I think,

00:54:04 ◼   ► to a good extent in the review.

00:54:05 ◼   ► Instead of having GIFs,

00:54:06 ◼   ► we can have this beautifully rendered HD.

00:54:10 ◼   ► Most of them are actually 1080p video of iOS emotion.

00:54:15 ◼   ► And with that, so they autoplay

00:54:18 ◼   ► as soon as you scroll past them.

00:54:21 ◼   ► But in addition to having this autoplay,

00:54:25 ◼   ► we built a custom replay controller,

00:54:27 ◼   ► so that when you view the animation for the first time,

00:54:30 ◼   ► if instead of looping through the animation

00:54:32 ◼   ► as you're reading, which can be distracting

00:54:34 ◼   ► if maybe there's a long paragraph

00:54:35 ◼   ► that you wanna concentrate on,

00:54:37 ◼   ► we built this custom replay controller

00:54:39 ◼   ► so you can replay the animation whenever you want.

00:54:43 ◼   ► And of course, we also added Super for captions,

00:54:45 ◼   ► which, you know, it's integrated with the video itself.

00:54:48 ◼   ► We did galleries, so, you know,

00:54:51 ◼   ► sometimes I want to show off different parts

00:54:53 ◼   ► of the same app, but I don't want to have one image,

00:54:56 ◼   ► one screenshot after the other.

00:54:58 ◼   ► So we built galleries.

00:54:59 ◼   ► You can swipe between them, those captions in galleries.

00:55:02 ◼   ► What else did we do?

00:55:04 ◼   ► I honestly can't remember.

00:55:06 ◼   ► There's video with audio.

00:55:08 ◼   ► So there's a bunch of examples in the sound design section,

00:55:11 ◼   ► in the iMessage section where I'm showing the screen effects.

00:55:15 ◼   ► Of course I built a workflow thanks to Graham

00:55:19 ◼   ► to show off, it's a grand building workflow for me,

00:55:23 ◼   ► to show off the visual differences

00:55:25 ◼   ► between iOS 7, 8, 9, and 10,

00:55:28 ◼   ► and Myke provided all of the iOS 9 screenshots,

00:55:30 ◼   ► so thank you, Myke.

00:55:32 ◼   ► - That's got a long time. - I don't know, I'm missing.

00:55:34 ◼   ► - I can't even imagine how long it must've taken for you

00:55:36 ◼   ► to do all the ones that you did,

00:55:37 ◼   ► 'cause just providing the ones,

00:55:39 ◼   ► like the 15 or whatever, it took ages.

00:55:41 ◼   ► - Oh, do you wanna know how many screenshots I have?

00:55:44 ◼   ► - I do, but in a moment,

00:55:45 ◼   ► 'cause I have a whole quickfire round of stats

00:55:48 ◼   ► that I want to get from you about this review.

00:55:50 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:55:51 ◼   ► - So--

00:55:52 ◼   ► - And finally, I just want to mention quickly,

00:55:54 ◼   ► for Club Maxories members, there's an ebook version.

00:55:58 ◼   ► That ebook version is based on a custom script

00:56:02 ◼   ► made by the crazy evil genius of Brett Terpsa.

00:56:06 ◼   ► He made a custom script for us to convert my markdown file

00:56:11 ◼   ► straight to EPUB, following the specifications of EPUB.

00:56:14 ◼   ► So the "aside boxes" are converted to asides for EPUB.

00:56:19 ◼   ► There's pull quotes, they also work in the ebook.

00:56:21 ◼   ► The galleries are automatically unwrapped

00:56:25 ◼   ► into single images because there's no gallery specification

00:56:28 ◼   ► in the EPUB standard, and it's just a better version

00:56:32 ◼   ► of the ebook that we've done last year,

00:56:34 ◼   ► and it's all automatic thanks to this script.

00:56:36 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:56:37 ◼   ► - To Myke's point about it feeling like a resource,

00:56:40 ◼   ► I think the table of content/index mechanism you have,

00:56:44 ◼   ► So you can go in and say, "Oh, I need to jump right to this subsection about this particular

00:56:49 ◼   ► feature."

00:56:50 ◼   ► It is a huge addition.

00:56:52 ◼   ► So many times these things are just paginated and you kind of forget where you are or if

00:56:57 ◼   ► you're going to read it in chunks, like I think most people will, it would be really

00:56:59 ◼   ► easy to remember where you were using that navigation system you guys have.

00:57:06 ◼   ► Well done.

00:57:07 ◼   ► - Yeah, you told me, like when I asked you, I was like, "Steven, tell me which things

00:57:13 ◼   ► you don't like about my iOS 9 review. And the first thing you told me, I remember, you

00:57:17 ◼   ► were like, "It's difficult to navigate." And I'm like, "Okay, we're going to improve that."

00:57:22 ◼   ► And trust me, it took a lot of time to get the table of contents bar to feel just right.

00:57:29 ◼   ► Because on the web, it's not as easy as making iOS apps which are fluid and the views are

00:57:35 ◼   ► responsive. When you do things on the web, it's easy to get messed up, especially when

00:57:39 ◼   ► you know, when you start to customize WordPress and when you need to scale to, you know, a

00:57:44 ◼   ► certain amount of page views and to keep performance up. So, you know, when you consider caching

00:57:50 ◼   ► and all of these different things on the web, so definitely the top navigation bar by far

00:57:55 ◼   ► is the single aspect that took the most time to get right.

00:57:59 ◼   ► To dream of 123, the 123 brand has been fully realized with 123 Trip Planner, which made

00:58:07 ◼   ► its debut in the review. Yes. Which is amazing. So, backstory here. A few months ago, I think

00:58:18 ◼   ► before I was leaving for vacation, it was early August, I was trying to finalize my

00:58:23 ◼   ► iMessage section, the collaborative apps. And I didn't have any apps to show off what

00:58:29 ◼   ► was possible with collaboration in iMessage. So I was thinking, how can I show these examples

00:58:35 ◼   ► to people and make it understandable. So I thought I should have Frank make a mockup

00:58:43 ◼   ► for me.

00:58:44 ◼   ► Our designer at Relay FM.

00:58:46 ◼   ► Yes, he's amazing. And so I asked Myke and I was like, "What do you think about this?"

00:58:54 ◼   ► As I was considering this idea, I was also trying to come up with a fictional example

00:59:00 ◼   ► in my mind of describing a potential iMessage app with collaboration. And so I wrote the

00:59:08 ◼   ► 1-3 trip planner text. I showed it to Myke and I was like, "This is amazing, but I don't

00:59:15 ◼   ► understand." So I got in touch with Frank. I sent Frank the draft of my review and I

00:59:20 ◼   ► was like, "Read this text. Can you make it an iMessage app for me?" And, you know, a

00:59:26 ◼   ► Couple of months later, there's one to three planner lives on in my iStun review.

00:59:31 ◼   ► So just to make sure this app doesn't actually exist, readers, it's all, you know, pretend.

00:59:38 ◼   ► But it's all technically accurate.

00:59:39 ◼   ► It's real to me.

00:59:41 ◼   ► It's real in your heart, but it's not real on the App Store.

00:59:46 ◼   ► It's all technically accurate.

00:59:48 ◼   ► So we went through the documentation for the messages framework, the way that the message

00:59:53 ◼   ► bubbles collapse into summaries, the use of the icons, the use of full screen views.

00:59:59 ◼   ► Even I got to say, Dave underscore David Smith before we started this process, he made, he

01:00:05 ◼   ► quickly made a custom iMessage app for me to test that the calendar framework event

01:00:11 ◼   ► kit could be accessed from an iMessage app.

01:00:14 ◼   ► And he showed me screenshots of reading calendar events inside messages.

01:00:18 ◼   ► And he told me, yeah, you can, you can access the calendar.

01:00:21 ◼   ► No problem.

01:00:22 ◼   ► "Okay, let's do this mock-up." And so, yeah, it was a good investment.

01:00:27 ◼   ► Yeah, it really made me smile. I'm very happy that it exists. And I love that it is technically

01:00:33 ◼   ► possible to make this application, and I love that you went to that length.

01:00:38 ◼   ► All right, let's do some quick fire statistics, Federico, about your review. Do you know how

01:00:45 ◼   ► long it took you to write it? Do you know your time spent actually writing the review?

01:00:50 ◼   ► Do you know how many hours it took?

01:00:52 ◼   ► Writing, not researching.

01:00:54 ◼   ► Writing.

01:00:56 ◼   ► Let's say... I cannot tell you the hours because I don't keep track of hours. I'm sorry I'm not like you and CGP.

01:01:03 ◼   ► That's probably a good thing for this though.

01:01:05 ◼   ► Yeah, what I can tell you is I started writing in early July.

01:01:13 ◼   ► I got most of my writing done in 10 days in mid-July when Sylvia was not around

01:01:21 ◼   ► and I spent like 15 hours a day writing for 10 days but then I kept writing even

01:01:28 ◼   ► when she was back home and I've basically been writing from July from

01:01:35 ◼   ► the first week of July until last week I took a break from when I was on

01:01:42 ◼   ► vacation for a week in the end of August. But on average I would say I worked on

01:01:47 ◼   ► this for, on the writing alone for two months, on average 10 hours a day.

01:01:58 ◼   ► Do you know what is the exact word count?

01:02:00 ◼   ► 50,000. It's all very rounded up nicely.

01:02:05 ◼   ► What about image count?

01:02:07 ◼   ► Image count, I don't know yet because I had to change the syntax for image galleries.

01:02:13 ◼   ► So we made custom shortcodes to use on Mac stories.

01:02:17 ◼   ► And the links to the images are actually duplicated in my text sometimes.

01:02:22 ◼   ► So I got to come up with the new rejects to count the links to the screenshots.

01:02:27 ◼   ► I can tell you that in my screenshots folder, which I cleaned up before starting taking

01:02:33 ◼   ► screenshots on the GM.

01:02:34 ◼   ► So all of the screenshots that you see have been taken on the GM seed of iOS 10.

01:02:39 ◼   ► I made a point of not using pre-release screenshots, which is the detail that I really care about.

01:02:45 ◼   ► In my screenshots folder, I see 1,365 screenshots.

01:02:54 ◼   ► Wow.

01:02:55 ◼   ► Okay.

01:02:56 ◼   ► So of course, these are single screenshots.

01:03:00 ◼   ► They have been combined, rearranged, some not used.

01:03:04 ◼   ► But I would say I wouldn't be surprised if in the review there's just short of 400 images

01:03:10 ◼   ► maybe.

01:03:11 ◼   ► I can tell you that the ebook, which is assembled from all of the videos and all of the images,

01:03:17 ◼   ► it's 200 megabytes.

01:03:20 ◼   ► So the text doesn't weight much, but the media is basically around 200 megabytes.

01:03:26 ◼   ► Do you know how many espressos you had?

01:03:31 ◼   ► On average, three to four a day.

01:03:36 ◼   ► And other interesting stats for you, the review has I think 81 or 82 footnotes, and if I'm

01:03:49 ◼   ► not mistaken 310 links.

01:03:55 ◼   ► What else?

01:03:56 ◼   ► 20 videos.

01:03:58 ◼   ► An uncountable amount of Easter eggs.

01:04:00 ◼   ► Oh yeah, the reason why the screenshots always take me so long is because I really care about them.

01:04:06 ◼   ► So if you pay attention, in most screenshots the battery is around 90%, so it looks nice and all filled up.

01:04:14 ◼   ► And on every screenshot I try to capture a screen that looks nice, or that has a reference, or that has a funny joke.

01:04:23 ◼   ► In fact, I didn't tell you, Myke, and you didn't notice them, but there's at least two other one, two, three themed references.

01:04:31 ◼   ► Oh, I've seen some of them. I've seen some of them. I've seen the references to the NX as well.

01:04:36 ◼   ► Yes.

01:04:37 ◼   ► And I've also seen where I think you spell my name incorrectly, but we don't need to worry about that for now.

01:04:43 ◼   ► Where?

01:04:44 ◼   ► In the draft screenshots, unless you're referring to some other Myke with an "I".

01:04:49 ◼   ► No, that's autocorrect, I'm sorry.

01:04:52 ◼   ► I assumed it was done by dictation and then I just let you go.

01:04:57 ◼   ► Ah, it could have been dictation.

01:04:59 ◼   ► No, it could have been dictation because I've also been using dictation in drafts.

01:05:03 ◼   ► Yep, it was in drafts, so that was what I had assumed.

01:05:07 ◼   ► One single tier is all it took.

01:05:10 ◼   ► How are you feeling?

01:05:12 ◼   ► Did it feel good to publish this year?

01:05:13 ◼   ► Is it going well so far?

01:05:14 ◼   ► Are you happy?

01:05:15 ◼   ► Like, do you feel happy when you finish this?

01:05:19 ◼   ► If I'm happy.

01:05:20 ◼   ► I'm happy.

01:05:21 ◼   ► I am happy, but I think I'm fundamentally broken, you know, in a sense that I'm already

01:05:29 ◼   ► thinking about what else I can do.

01:05:32 ◼   ► And like, I'm recording now and I'm just itching because I want to publish more stuff on Mac

01:05:38 ◼   ► stories.

01:05:39 ◼   ► You have more to go still.

01:05:41 ◼   ► And I'm just, I'm seeing the iWork updates on the App Store now and I'm writing to the

01:05:45 ◼   ► Mac stories team on Slack and be like, somebody needs to cover this.

01:05:49 ◼   ► And I'm still thinking about, is there anything I should have done better?

01:05:53 ◼   ► Is there anything I should have explained in different ways or more images, more videos?

01:05:58 ◼   ► I am happy, but I'm also, I don't want to say unsatisfied, because I am very much satisfied.

01:06:06 ◼   ► And it's a big milestone for me to have done this.

01:06:11 ◼   ► And it was my goal to leave something to, this sounds grandiose in a sense that I'm

01:06:17 ◼   ► I'm not really that kind of person, but I wanted to leave something to be remembered

01:06:21 ◼   ► for in a way.

01:06:22 ◼   ► Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.

01:06:23 ◼   ► Legacy.

01:06:24 ◼   ► I wanted to leave, I don't know, legacy, you know, something that people can identify with.

01:06:30 ◼   ► So I'm very happy about that.

01:06:32 ◼   ► But I mean, I already have a note in my notes up, iOS 11, you know.

01:06:39 ◼   ► So I'm constantly, and I was talking to Silvia today, I was like, "What can we do next year

01:06:46 ◼   ► for the design. So there's no, it's all, and I think I have this line in the review, probably

01:06:53 ◼   ► I took it out, I don't remember, but everything is always flowing, you know? Change is constant

01:06:59 ◼   ► and it's not just about Apple, it's not just about iOS, it's about me as well. The theme

01:07:04 ◼   ► of change and the theme of, I'm going to spoil one of the very final sentences, you can never

01:07:12 ◼   ► be finished you can only be relevant. I wrote that about iOS 10 as much as I wrote it about

01:07:19 ◼   ► me. So again, I'm already thinking about what else I can do. Now, I'm going to take it easy,

01:07:28 ◼   ► not take a break because I don't like breaks. I mean, when I was on vacation, I didn't think

01:07:33 ◼   ► about the review, but I organized the Club Backstory's anniversary month because I needed

01:07:38 ◼   ► something to hold on to, you know? But to answer your question, this is way too long,

01:07:46 ◼   ► it feels great, I'm very happy, I am happy. Today, right now, I will be happy tomorrow,

01:07:53 ◼   ► but I'm already thinking about what else I can do.

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01:10:02 ◼   ► All right Federico, are you ready for some connected QA from the listeners?

01:10:08 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:10:09 ◼   ► Thibaut wants to know, what was the hardest part of writing the review?

01:10:17 ◼   ► From a technical point of view, it was the messages section, because I wanted it to be

01:10:26 ◼   ► the focus of my review, because I felt that it was the big deal, it's a big deal, messages.

01:10:33 ◼   ► And I'm gonna give you another stat, the messages section alone is 10,000 words.

01:10:41 ◼   ► the big meaty part of the review. Probably actually over, probably like 12,000 because

01:10:47 ◼   ► I have some things to add in final revisions. And from a personal level, it was... I'm trying

01:10:59 ◼   ► to put this into words, to find a way so my girlfriend wouldn't break up with me.

01:11:07 ◼   ► Yeah. I know what you're saying.

01:11:11 ◼   ► I was obsessed. I know she wouldn't. At least not for this, I hope.

01:11:15 ◼   ► Well you want to just not make it too difficult for her, right? Like, this should only take

01:11:20 ◼   ► over your life, not hers as well. Exactly, and I was obsessed with this. And

01:11:26 ◼   ► she told me, because in every conversation I would bring up the review. It was either

01:11:30 ◼   ► a screenshot that I needed to have, or something with the website, or some beta. Every conversation

01:11:39 ◼   ► was starting with her was about the review. She told me, "Look, I get it, but you're obsessed."

01:11:44 ◼   ► And so, from a personal point of view, and I mean, I asked a WWDC, John, for advice on this matter,

01:11:54 ◼   ► to keep living a normal life while writing the review in the summer. And I'm still struggling

01:12:02 ◼   ► with that, because every year I, I mean, I told you, Myke, we were flying to San Francisco,

01:12:06 ◼   ► I was like, yeah, you know, this year, I think it's going to be easy because there's not

01:12:10 ◼   ► going to be the major iPad stuff.

01:12:13 ◼   ► As it turns out, I did it even bigger than last year.

01:12:17 ◼   ► Maybe I'm misremembering, but you seem in a much better state this year than you were

01:12:22 ◼   ► last year.

01:12:23 ◼   ► Yeah, for sure.

01:12:24 ◼   ► Because I got a lot done before going on vacation.

01:12:28 ◼   ► Last year I was freaking out because I wasn't ready with the actual content.

01:12:33 ◼   ► This time I freaked out maybe the last week because of the design. We had so many bugs

01:12:41 ◼   ► on the new layout and so many technical problems. But, you know, Ale is a crazy genius also

01:12:48 ◼   ► and he figured it all out. And we had a minor problem with caching today for five minutes.

01:12:53 ◼   ► He took the website up again and it was all done. So I didn't freak out for the content.

01:13:01 ◼   ► was the design. So maybe next year will be something else. And maybe this is just the

01:13:04 ◼   ► way that I am. I have to be nervous about something for, you know, for good performance,

01:13:10 ◼   ► I guess.

01:13:11 ◼   ► Gtime wants to know, would you update an old device to iOS 10, like an iPad Air or an iPhone

01:13:18 ◼   ► 5S?

01:13:19 ◼   ► I honestly don't have a suggestion for that, because I haven't tried. My advice would probably

01:13:25 ◼   ► be wrong, because I'm sorry, but I honestly don't have the facts. I haven't tested. I

01:13:30 ◼   ► I don't do performance reviews on Mac stories,

01:13:33 ◼   ► I try to focus on the experience.

01:13:35 ◼   ► And I mean, performance is the experience,

01:13:38 ◼   ► but I just sit, I'm not that kind of reviewer, I guess.

01:13:41 ◼   ► I don't compare multiple old devices.

01:13:44 ◼   ► Also because I don't have them, I sell them.

01:13:46 ◼   ► And I don't wanna keep an archive of all of my old

01:13:49 ◼   ► iOS devices and install the beta on each device.

01:13:52 ◼   ► Because otherwise, if I were to do that,

01:13:55 ◼   ► I wouldn't be able to focus on apps,

01:13:57 ◼   ► on developers, on software.

01:13:59 ◼   ► would only focus on hardware because otherwise I... You're aware though, is it is it

01:14:03 ◼   ► a thing you should do or is it likely to cause some issues? I don't know.

01:14:08 ◼   ► I don't know it's probably better I don't know I keep telling my friends

01:14:11 ◼   ► every time you should update because it's better but you know people then

01:14:14 ◼   ► come back to me and say hey you told me to update but it's actually made my

01:14:17 ◼   ► phone slower so I don't know. Or breaks them. Yeah.

01:14:21 ◼   ► Devin wants to know what is the final iOS 10 behavior if mail.app is removed

01:14:27 ◼   ► and you click a mail to link.

01:14:29 ◼   ► It gives you an alert.

01:14:30 ◼   ► There's a screenshot in the review.

01:14:31 ◼   ► It tells you to go back to the App Store and reinstall mail.

01:14:35 ◼   ► You cannot change default links.

01:14:37 ◼   ► I love it.

01:14:37 ◼   ► It's like, hey, you idiot.

01:14:39 ◼   ► We told you you shouldn't do it.

01:14:40 ◼   ► You wanted to do it, and now you can't send email.

01:14:43 ◼   ► And John has a follow-up question.

01:14:48 ◼   ► Will Apple ever include share extensions in mail?

01:14:51 ◼   ► It's a very difficult problem, because think about it

01:14:54 ◼   ► this way.

01:14:54 ◼   ► When you're in photos, you're sharing an image.

01:14:57 ◼   ► When you're in notes, you're sharing text.

01:15:00 ◼   ► What are you sharing when you're in mail?

01:15:02 ◼   ► Are you sharing the plain text?

01:15:04 ◼   ► Are you sharing the attachments?

01:15:05 ◼   ► Are you sharing the email message like you can in Mac OS?

01:15:09 ◼   ► You can just drag it out of mail and drop it on the desktop.

01:15:12 ◼   ► That's probably what Apple wants you,

01:15:14 ◼   ► wants eventually to do,

01:15:15 ◼   ► to have a single representation of an email message,

01:15:18 ◼   ► like a Mac OS, but it's not possible on iOS.

01:15:20 ◼   ► So for now, you can only select text and share text,

01:15:23 ◼   ► or you can open an attachment in Quick Look

01:15:25 ◼   ► and share it from there.

01:15:26 ◼   ► It's a very difficult problem to have the share sheet in mail.

01:15:30 ◼   ► - Yeah, I mean like an app like Air Mail does it,

01:15:32 ◼   ► but the Air Mail's implementation works really well

01:15:35 ◼   ► for power users, I don't know if it works

01:15:36 ◼   ► for everybody else. - Exactly, exactly.

01:15:38 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:15:39 ◼   ► - And what would you tell your friends about iOS 10

01:15:41 ◼   ► to push them to upgrade?

01:15:43 ◼   ► - iMessage, for sure.

01:15:45 ◼   ► I would show them iMessage, I would show them the fact

01:15:48 ◼   ► that you can use WhatsApp with Siri.

01:15:49 ◼   ► That was a big seller in my conversation this summer

01:15:53 ◼   ► about the beta. A lot of my friends are so into WhatsApp and to be able to message with

01:15:58 ◼   ► Siri using WhatsApp is going to be great for them. But just stickers, iMessage, Siri and

01:16:03 ◼   ► WhatsApp, and the new maps, I think, you know, that's about it.

01:16:08 ◼   ► I'm surprised that Apple hasn't included all of the new, I think it's Unicode 9 emoji.

01:16:13 ◼   ► Yeah, that's going to come with a later update, as they always do.

01:16:16 ◼   ► Yeah, I reckon that this is like, they want people to update for stickers, not emoji,

01:16:21 ◼   ► right and then they'll get them with the emoji later on. Well they can use the

01:16:25 ◼   ► same trick twice if they don't put them together. Yeah exactly exactly.

01:16:29 ◼   ► So they have some emoji but not all of the emoji that's in 9. So Federico

01:16:35 ◼   ► congratulations on shipping your review it is incredible. I think I'm about a

01:16:39 ◼   ► third of the way through. I'm doing what I always do and just I don't go

01:16:44 ◼   ► chronologically I just pick the sections and it is incredible and you did a

01:16:48 ◼   ► fantastic job and you should be very proud of yourself.

01:16:51 ◼   ► Thank you.

01:16:52 ◼   ► All right, if you want to find links to this week's episode, you can go to relay.fm/connected/108,

01:16:59 ◼   ► you'll find links to a bunch of the apps and stickers that we spoke about, as well as of

01:17:02 ◼   ► course Federico's review is in there as well.

01:17:05 ◼   ► If you want to find Federico's review and all of his work, go to maxstories.net.

01:17:09 ◼   ► Go sign up and become a Club Max Stories member because there's loads of extra stuff coming,

01:17:13 ◼   ► right?

01:17:14 ◼   ► For Club Max Stories members, there's always giveaways and exclusives and discounts and

01:17:17 ◼   ► all that fun stuff.

01:17:19 ◼   ► Yeah, there's a lot of stuff coming this week.

01:17:22 ◼   ► So you should go and get ahead of the curve and go to MaxStories.net and sign up to become

01:17:25 ◼   ► Club MaxStories member.

01:17:26 ◼   ► If you want to find Steven online, he is at 512pixels.net and he is @ismh on Twitter,

01:17:32 ◼   ► Federico is @Vittici, V-I-T-I-C-C-I.

01:17:35 ◼   ► I didn't mention this until now, but I'm still in Portland, which is why I might sound weird

01:17:39 ◼   ► to you.

01:17:40 ◼   ► I don't have my usual recording equipment.

01:17:42 ◼   ► And when I'm not in Portland, you can find me on Twitter.

01:17:44 ◼   ► I am @imike, I-M-Y-K-E.

01:17:47 ◼   ► Next week, I guess we're gonna try and do our show notes in pages with collaboration, right?

01:17:53 ◼   ► Everyone up for that?

01:17:55 ◼   ► Yeah

01:17:57 ◼   ► Yeah, we're gonna go for that. We can try so that's something to look forward to everyone. We'll be back next week

01:18:03 ◼   ► Thanks again to our sponsors for supporting us over this week's show. There are great people over at hover

01:18:08 ◼   ► Casper and Braintree. Thank you for listening as always and we'll be back next time. Be careful with your iPhone updates. Say goodbye guys

01:18:16 ◼   ► Arrivederci. Adios.