00:00:20 ◼ ► Hello! And I have the pleasure of being joined on this very special episode by Federico Vittucci.
00:00:36 ◼ ► That is a different show. But as a huge fan of Upgradies, you gotta go listen to the Upgradies.
00:01:08 ◼ ► It's a complicated thing, right? Like, it's kind of down to Jason. I'm not giving myself an award.
00:01:18 ◼ ► It's the Annie's. So if you are not familiar with this, this is where we take our year's worth of news,
00:01:33 ◼ ► Can I just stop you for a second? Nothing encapsulates this show more than two levels of "if you're not familiar with this."
00:02:07 ◼ ► Sure enough. The tichi scale starts from the left side with the nightmare level scenario.
00:02:19 ◼ ► We then go up to inferior minus, which is halfway through to inferior, which is the third step in the tichi scale.
00:02:35 ◼ ► And you don't really want to be either of them, but if you really have to, I would actually prefer decent,
00:02:41 ◼ ► because it means you've done something slightly bad, but it's still within the realm of normalcy,
00:03:01 ◼ ► This is when you've done something truly exceptional that deserves the love of the connected program.
00:03:09 ◼ ► Best I love you. And a big thank you to Kate who illustrated this years and years ago, and it continues to serve us all very well.
00:03:19 ◼ ► And in fact, the nightmare stop is represented by a bat, which is really not an animal I appreciate personally.
00:03:35 ◼ ► Yeah. So that being said, usually the months they start in January, we're not doing any follow up today.
00:03:46 ◼ ► Why don't we just go ahead and start with the first day with the first month of the what is it that we use the Gregorian calendar?
00:04:01 ◼ ► I never remember. Like there's 14 days missing from like a thousand years ago or something when the current calendar was invented.
00:04:20 ◼ ► If you if you're in fact, fun fact, if you open the Apple calendar app on your phone and you scroll back enough,
00:04:27 ◼ ► I believe Kate said in this quarter to the seventeen hundreds, you will find this missing days that I'm talking about.
00:04:36 ◼ ► Federico, do you remember when you said that we don't have time for anything else today?
00:05:21 ◼ ► And the M2 Pro notably went into the Mac mini as well, killing off that space gray Intel Mac Mini finally.
00:05:41 ◼ ► If we'll get later in the show, you'll learn that Apple has already done the M3 Pro and M3 Max less than like like 10 months later.
00:05:53 ◼ ► This is not something that I would have been able to tell you happened in January of 2023.
00:06:21 ◼ ► And it moved to the S7 chip from the Apple Watch as opposed to the A8, which I believe was in the original HomePod.
00:06:28 ◼ ► Looks the same. Sounds basically the same. I think has a slightly updated that top kind of screen, but not a screen matches the HomePod mini now.
00:06:37 ◼ ► I don't have any of these. I'm full in on the HomePod mini lifestyle, but HomePod 2 there.
00:06:53 ◼ ► Apple purchased Dark Sky back in March of 2020. I don't think anything else happened that month, but they kept it around.
00:07:15 ◼ ► The API would kind of linger on until the end of March with WeatherKit replacing it, of course.
00:07:21 ◼ ► But I know a lot of people who were using the Dark Sky app right until the end and some of them are still salty about it.
00:07:27 ◼ ► But Apple said it was going to do this. It said it well in advance. Like, I think they communicated it all pretty well.
00:07:34 ◼ ► We also got iOS 16.3, which brought advanced data protection. So this is opt-in and you get end-to-end encryption for almost all of your data in iCloud.
00:07:48 ◼ ► If you don't have this, some of your stuff is just encrypted in transit and Apple sells access to it on their server.
00:08:02 ◼ ► This is the thing where like messages were encrypted end-to-end if you didn't have messages in the cloud turned on.
00:08:08 ◼ ► But who would not turn that on if you have more than one Apple device? So everyone turned it on.
00:08:13 ◼ ► And it meant because therefore they were in the back. That's why, because then it would go into the backup, I think, if you turn that on.
00:08:19 ◼ ► But no, because the backups are end-to-end encrypted. The issue was messages in the cloud is what made it like this.
00:08:36 ◼ ► Okay, so me and you can have secret conversations, but we can't have them with Federico because the government might find them.
00:08:44 ◼ ► This is no judgement. Is there a reason Federico that you haven't done this or have you just not done it?
00:08:48 ◼ ► I always fear that if I do either this or sign up for the Apple One bundle, it's going to ruin my Apple ID inevitably.
00:09:03 ◼ ► That's fair. And it does come with ramifications for unlocking your account if you get locked out, which you got to contend with too.
00:09:12 ◼ ► But I think that their process is good, right? With like setting the recovery contacts and like doing the whole right.
00:09:18 ◼ ► I think Apple take every step possible to try and make sure you can protect your account better than I've ever had anyone do this kind of thing with me before.
00:09:27 ◼ ► Like really making you do it. And it's like a whole pain, right? Just like manually type the thing in.
00:09:40 ◼ ► Yeah. And actually clarify, 16.3 made this worldwide. It was actually the end of 2022 with Iowa 16.2 that this started just in the US.
00:09:52 ◼ ► Just a clarification, Zach has said that you were right, Stephen, that it was the backups that were the problem. My apologies for correcting you incorrectly.
00:10:00 ◼ ► Also, Zach has created the me with the Obama hands, giving myself an award. And it's...
00:10:11 ◼ ► The last thing I want to bring your attention to in January, we got to kind of end on a down note. This is the end of third party Twitter apps.
00:10:21 ◼ ► So Elon Musk and his boys shut down the API and Ivory for Macedon was reborn out of the ashes of that, which is fantastic.
00:10:32 ◼ ► Ivory is my Macedon client of choice. But a sad day if you were using tweet bot or Twitter or something else for a long time. Those are dead and gone.
00:10:49 ◼ ► I think, Stephen, the point that you've made, I think this was a good thing that Twitter clients were killed because it got more people away from Twitter and moved them to Macedon.
00:11:01 ◼ ► I think a year later, like 12 months later, this was good. This was good that this happened. Like, because our community got away mostly from Twitter, which I think has proved to be beneficial.
00:11:13 ◼ ► And so was bad at the time. Good in hindsight, which I guess is how we judge it, right? We judge it looking at the month and how we feel about it now.
00:11:22 ◼ ► So I would call this a good month. I think the HomePod 2 ruined it. But that's a stupid thing.
00:11:35 ◼ ► Yeah, I think good is where I land. I get what you're saying about the Twitter clients, but also it's sad and it really harmed a lot of businesses and developers we know. So I can't go higher, but I will give it good.
00:11:49 ◼ ► Yeah, I think, though, that by and large, the community helped those businesses out, right? And then they got to make their own decisions.
00:11:56 ◼ ► Obviously, I think Tapbot is in a much better situation than it was before. And ICON Factory decided to take a break, which also might be good for them. You know what I mean?
00:12:04 ◼ ► But I see what you're saying, but I think at large, I think it was better. Like, I think at large, the result of it was good, even if there might be. As always, some pockets of pain, but you have to try and look at the bigger picture.
00:12:19 ◼ ► All right, it's my turn to talk about February. In February, Apple named the, I think, finally named Carole Surface as Chief People Officer, making this is close to, but not exactly like Doug Bowser at Nintendo.
00:12:38 ◼ ► If Carole's name was Carole Macintosh, that would have been better. But Carole is Carole Surface.
00:12:51 ◼ ► Apple names best Surface of the year, Carole Surface as Chief People Officer, making Deirdre O'Brien full-time as Head of Retail, because O'Brien was managing both of those roles for a while.
00:13:05 ◼ ► Because I think Deirdre was HR, right? So people. Then when Angela Ahrendts left, she took retail, and now Deirdre moved full to retail and Carole Surface came in as Chief People Officer.
00:13:16 ◼ ► Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave us the best quote of the year when talking about Bing and its competition with Google, where Stone Cold Killer, Satya Nadella said,
00:13:27 ◼ ► "I hope that with our innovation, they will definitely want to come out and show that they can dance. And I want people to know that we made them dance, and I think that'll be a great day."
00:13:38 ◼ ► And I think he was right, ultimately. I don't know where history is going to land, the LLMs with Microsoft and Google, etc, etc.
00:13:46 ◼ ► But Bard was rushed out because it was bad when it started, and I think that was purely because of what Microsoft was doing. So he brought them to the dance.
00:13:55 ◼ ► And also during this time on Connected, we were getting people to send us pictures of their thighs.
00:14:15 ◼ ► This is very normal. I mean, that just feels very normal. There was some news and we did something weird on the show. This feels like a normal month to me.
00:14:23 ◼ ► Normal month. All right, we now move on to March. Huge news, guys. We got the yellow iPhone 14 and 14 Plus.
00:14:43 ◼ ► This was good, if anything, just to try and watch Jason do something, you know, like he got sent these and then he tried to make content out of it and he just did a stream where he just showed a bunch of yellow things, which was just great.
00:15:03 ◼ ► Yeah. And later in the year, much more recently, Marco used it to compare the yellow on his new Rivian, which was also good.
00:15:20 ◼ ► We also finally saw the launch of Apple Music classical only on the iPhone. I believe the app later came to the iPad.
00:15:28 ◼ ► I don't think there's an Android version yet, but Apple Music classical is the sort of Apple Music spinoff based off of the acquisition of Primephonic, the classical music streaming service from a few years back.
00:15:48 ◼ ► You now have this curated sort of UI for composers, orchestras, you know, different way to browse classical music than the limitations of the standard Apple Music experience.
00:16:05 ◼ ► Yeah. I mean, this is nice that Apple is diversifying Apple Music for the classical music experience.
00:16:12 ◼ ► I think I've played around with it for like five minutes because I don't listen to classical music.
00:16:18 ◼ ► But there are elements of it, I think, that I wouldn't mind seeing in the Apple Music vanilla experience.
00:16:32 ◼ ► Nice fonts. And you can see some of that like attention to metadata coming to Apple Music with their new credits functionality in Apple Music.
00:16:42 ◼ ► But it pales in comparison to the kind of metadata that you have in Apple Music classical.
00:16:47 ◼ ► Also the great artwork of composers, you know, like you kidding me right now? It's a bunch of paintings? Come on.
00:17:00 ◼ ► Apple introduced Apple Pay Later. I have no idea what this is because I don't get any of these Apple Pay features in it.
00:17:29 ◼ ► Yeah. We start, well, first we got the announcement of WWDC was announced for June 5th in March.
00:17:40 ◼ ► Mike and I were ready that day with plane tickets. We had already hotel reservations good to go.
00:17:48 ◼ ► We were prepared. And of course, this is when our season of excitement officially started.
00:17:57 ◼ ► We knew that Apple, there were rumors if you roll back the clock, there were rumors that Apple was going to introduce the headset before WWDC.
00:18:05 ◼ ► And then it became apparent that Apple was not going to announce the then rumored Apple headset before June.
00:18:12 ◼ ► And so with the confirmation of WWDC, we knew that then that event was going to be the Apple headset announcement.
00:18:23 ◼ ► And yeah, I remember that day and you know, spent when WWDC was announced, spending a lot of money on flights.
00:18:33 ◼ ► I believe this date was announced as we were getting ready to record the show. We had to come back an hour later.
00:18:39 ◼ ► Oh my God. Yes. Yeah. I think there is a start of that show, right? Where it's like we actually started recording and then we stopped.
00:18:51 ◼ ► And then it's like an hour and a half later and we came back. That was a busy, busy day.
00:18:57 ◼ ► We started getting reports that the iPhone 15 Pro would feature a multi-use action button inspired by the Apple Watch Ultra instead of a physical mute switch.
00:19:09 ◼ ► Those reports would turn out to be correct. We did get an action button in the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max.
00:19:16 ◼ ► And it's it's it is alongside, I would say, the 5X lens on the Pro Max. It is my favorite feature of the new phones.
00:19:32 ◼ ► And it is to add tasks to Todoist and you. I really, really value that. I think that's like the best thing to do for this. So I love it.
00:19:41 ◼ ► Same. Use it a bunch to get things into Todoist. It's best as a quick capture device. And I'm glad I have it.
00:20:01 ◼ ► I actually saw this, this t-shirts and the sweater at the Apple store at the visitor center at Apple Park.
00:20:11 ◼ ► Bunch of people buying AFC Richmond t-shirts. Obviously, season three of Ted Lasso was ongoing at the time.
00:20:19 ◼ ► The final season of Ted Lasso. And yeah, Apple worked with Nike to release this official merch and looks nice.
00:20:45 ◼ ► No more than good because it was like fine. But like getting that date is just always a relief.
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00:23:42 ◼ ► April, of course, marks Earth Day and Apple always likes to talk about their environmental work leading up to that.
00:23:51 ◼ ► They had a pair of stories in April. One was recapping their goal to make every product carbon neutral by 2030.
00:24:02 ◼ ► We learned a lot more about this in the September event with the phones and watches, but Apple kind of laid this vision out again.
00:24:09 ◼ ► And I think it's one of the first times they've branded it like Apple 2030. They're making it a bigger deal talking about it more.
00:24:16 ◼ ► And one of the details that came out in this was by 2025, the company expects to use 100% recycled cobalt in all of its batteries.
00:24:25 ◼ ► So instead of mining this from the earth, which is terrible for the environment and terrible for people who have to do it,
00:24:31 ◼ ► using this recycled material will put a lot of that out of the picture, which is great.
00:24:38 ◼ ► It's funny. It's funny to see that in March because I feel like I didn't know about it when I heard about it in June.
00:24:51 ◼ ► You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? I didn't know about it in March or June, but when they announced it here, it didn't stick in my mind like when they did the video in the iPhone event.
00:25:03 ◼ ► Yeah, I guess so. But also they really hammered home the carbon neutral in that presentation.
00:25:08 ◼ ► And I think by being able to actually show products that were carbon neutral rather than just talking about wanting to do it, it made much more of an impact.
00:25:25 ◼ ► It was reported that GM had decided that future EVs would drop CarPlay and Android Auto using GM's own infotainment system built atop Android Automotive, which is like a low level OS for cars different from Android Auto.
00:25:42 ◼ ► You can run CarPlay and Android Auto on cars that do this. A bunch of cars are now using Android Automotive as kind of the base layer.
00:25:53 ◼ ► This also started an ongoing story where people from Apple end up at GM. Some have already left GM.
00:26:00 ◼ ► Like it's just been a real revolving door over there. And I think this continues to be a mistake and the GM will continue to pay for it.
00:26:08 ◼ ► I mean, even just this week, I was talking to a friend about a new Cadillac SUV, electric SUV that they unveiled.
00:26:16 ◼ ► He was like, no CarPlay. Like it's off the table. And I think a lot of people feel that way.
00:26:20 ◼ ► I hope GM gets the picture. April also started the four month long Automation April. I was kidding. It wasn't that long this year.
00:26:30 ◼ ► The amazing series of events and stories over, of course, at Mac stories. Automation April showed up on Mastodon this year,
00:26:38 ◼ ► which was a great way to follow along kind of all in one place with giveaways and winners and contests, the whole thing. Federico, you all did a great job with that.
00:26:46 ◼ ► No, thank you. Thank you. It's always fun to always fun to fun to put this together every year and to see what people can build with shortcuts.
00:26:55 ◼ ► Hopefully we'll eventually get some bigger shortcuts updates from Apple compared to what we got in iOS and iOS 17.
00:27:09 ◼ ► You also published in April S GPT a shortcut to connect chat GPT to a bunch of native features in iOS and iPad OS.
00:27:17 ◼ ► You've done so much shortcut work. You just published a story today actually about shortcuts and good links.
00:27:22 ◼ ► But this was the one I was like, oh, oh, Federico is like a he's like a real developer.
00:27:28 ◼ ► You know, he's he's doing this thing with these APIs, bringing in content and suggestions and all this stuff from iOS and intermixing it with what chat GPT could do.
00:27:40 ◼ ► Is it something that you're still using on a regular basis? Like what's kind of the status of S GPT for you personally?
00:27:45 ◼ ► This is the kind of shortcut that really went mainstream in a way that I was not expecting. It was big.
00:27:52 ◼ ► It was big for and I still get requests from people like every single week. But the problem is I was hoping that iOS and iPad OS 17 were introduced new like system integrations for me to truly take advantage of S GPT in new ways.
00:28:07 ◼ ► And the reason why I haven't resumed working on it yet is because there are more things that I want to do, but I am currently limited by shortcuts so much.
00:28:18 ◼ ► And so does it even make sense like the amount of integrations that I that I can build haven't changed compared to last year.
00:28:29 ◼ ► So I should probably go in and make sure that S GPT is still working with the latest versions of chat GPT and the API.
00:28:37 ◼ ► But all the things that I wanted to do, like imagine if you could get S GPT to rearrange windows for you.
00:28:42 ◼ ► Nope, cannot do that on the iPad. Like I was hoping that I could build some nice upgrades to S GPT after WWDC and I cannot because Apple didn't really add any new system integrations to shortcuts that I can integrate with S GPT.
00:29:03 ◼ ► So that's why it's on pause at the moment, because it doesn't make sense for me to go in there and do what? There's nothing else that I can do right now.
00:29:11 ◼ ► You weren't the only one busy in April with content. I was in a car accident to test crash detection.
00:29:41 ◼ ► OK. We also got news that Steve Jobs long time media boss Katie Cotton had passed away on April 6th.
00:29:53 ◼ ► She was one of those people that if you weren't in this racket, you may not have known who she was or, you know, interacted with her.
00:30:01 ◼ ► But if you've followed if you followed along Apple News and press coverage during the Steve Jobs time, her work was very familiar to you.
00:30:11 ◼ ► She seemed extremely loyal to Jobs and and a pretty tough person to to contend with if you had a disagreement,
00:30:20 ◼ ► but was behind the scenes for really some of the biggest announcements in the Jobs kind of 2.0 era and quite a loss, I'm sure, for people who knew her.
00:30:30 ◼ ► Yeah. It's like so much of the way that Apple communicates like the what seems like sometimes weird, sometimes very particularly planned stuff and secrecy.
00:30:46 ◼ ► I never had any interaction with her, but we all know people that did. And it seems like her work was incredibly influential.
00:30:57 ◼ ► Speaking of legacy, we got the Make Something Wonderful book, a collection of speeches and interviews and correspondence and more.
00:31:09 ◼ ► This came from the Steve Jobs archive, which is a collaboration between Lorraine Powell Jobs, Johnny Ive, other people who were close to Steve.
00:31:21 ◼ ► This came out in a website form, which is really incredible. Like I'm scrolling through it now. Like the website is so good.
00:31:46 ◼ ► He was definitely not a perfect person, but flipping through these pages, you can't help but but miss him.
00:31:58 ◼ ► No, actually, I'm going to say like that was really bad when Stephen had his car accident.
00:32:39 ◼ ► I would say inferior minus. This is where we were almost a nightmare scenario, but it could have been worse.
00:32:50 ◼ ► Apple and Google partner every time they've done this has been a success on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking.
00:33:05 ◼ ► This is like to build stuff into the operating system about the way that these devices are triggered and how they are triggered when there's people around you.
00:33:16 ◼ ► And also in ways to alert users in the event of unwanted tracking and all this kind of stuff.
00:33:23 ◼ ► Apple was pushed this forward on their own of AirTags, but they also worked with Google to set these practices.
00:33:30 ◼ ► I think in an attempt to try and calm some of the groups that were very upset with them because of some terrible things that had happened.
00:33:37 ◼ ► And so this was an example of them trying to like show that they were doing as much as they could possibly do while still continuing to produce AirTags.
00:33:51 ◼ ► They said it would never happen. Well, they said it would happen. Then they lost faith and said it would never happen.
00:33:57 ◼ ► And then out of the literally out of the blue, it happened. They just arrived where really they could have appeared a month later, but they decided to just put them out.
00:34:10 ◼ ► And you know, as is the way with some of these things, sometimes the promise of it when the news hits is very exciting.
00:34:22 ◼ ► I think we wanted a little bit more from Logic for our purposes, but they focused it around music, which I think is very fair to do.
00:34:34 ◼ ► And there are people that are that are using it to produce videos and using it as a companion for producing videos.
00:34:48 ◼ ► Is it Accessibility Awareness Day? Because there are a couple of different days, right? I think it's Accessibility Awareness Day.
00:35:03 ◼ ► Was it G A A D? Global Accessibility Awareness Day? Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
00:35:09 ◼ ► Apple took the opportunity to preview live speech, personal voice and a few other features.
00:35:20 ◼ ► They showed off assistive access. This is the thing that created a simplified operating system UI for iOS.
00:35:32 ◼ ► And so it would allow for those with cognitive disabilities to be able to maybe more easily with less distractions, operate the iPhone.
00:35:44 ◼ ► So the device on device would create a selection of captions for video that's appearing.
00:35:50 ◼ ► Personal voice, where for those at risk of losing their voices, they could go through a training with the device,
00:35:57 ◼ ► which would ask you to say a bunch of stuff and it would record you and then overnight would generate a version of your voice that could be used with speech to text.
00:36:09 ◼ ► And also point and speak in the magnifier app. So you could point your iPhone with the magnifier app open a button, for example,
00:36:26 ◼ ► The key thing other than the store actually looking beautiful with refresh design language, which Apple is now rolled out to a couple of other stores.
00:36:35 ◼ ► It includes the return of the genius bar as a thing inside of the store with seats where you can go and know where to get help,
00:36:45 ◼ ► rather than just floating around where the cases are and hoping somebody will help you at a random table.
00:36:50 ◼ ► Yeah, I'm I'm super glad of that. I mean, the store here in Memphis was one of the first to get the design before this,
00:36:58 ◼ ► like the avenues and the grove, right? You just kind of sit around and like they put they type in what you're wearing and they come look for you.
00:37:04 ◼ ► That is confusing. And I think years in. I hate that as a way to think years in is still messy.
00:37:11 ◼ ► And so I'm glad this is back. And hopefully they continue to as they renovate the stores, bring back the genius bar.
00:37:26 ◼ ► Beats Studio Buds Plus came out and they had a clear plastic option and we all got excited. It's good. You have them, right?
00:37:35 ◼ ► Oh, yeah. Yes. These are good. They look fantastic. Normal? Final cut and logic to the... I was going to say good.
00:37:46 ◼ ► Good. Or good plus. Well, you had the Beats Studio Buds Plus. It's right there in the name.
00:38:01 ◼ ► But they didn't give us what we wanted still. We wanted like full, big, fully featured apps.
00:38:13 ◼ ► Someone would say the iPad has baby apps. So some people say that. Some people would say that.
00:38:21 ◼ ► Okay, so we can go for good. We now get to the biggest and most important month of the year, June, or as we call it in Italy, "Junio".
00:38:32 ◼ ► It's very similar, actually. "WDC 2023". What an event. Okay. So this was the best time of the year.
00:38:43 ◼ ► Not just because I got to see you guys again in person. And Mike finally made his official debut at "WDC".
00:38:58 ◼ ► I'm sorry. I just saw this image and I can't get it out of my mind. I've opened the press release that Steven put in the show notes.
00:39:04 ◼ ► There was a picture I've never seen before of Tim Cook in front of the Vision Pro. And it is one of the greatest images I've ever seen.
00:39:10 ◼ ► This is hilarious to me. I love this photo. This is so fake. Yes, he's not actually there. This is incredible. I love this image.
00:39:21 ◼ ► I love this image. It's so good. I feel like there should be versions of this image with lots of people standing in front of it.
00:39:34 ◼ ► Yes, anything. But like this image is incredible. Wow. I love it. I've never seen it before. I love it so much.
00:39:42 ◼ ► Where to begin? I guess with the boring stuff. We got the M2 Ultra Mac Studio and the Mac Pro, whatever.
00:39:54 ◼ ► The 15 inch M2 MacBook Air. I do have the 13 inch M2 MacBook Air. Best computer Apple's ever made.
00:40:01 ◼ ► But we got the big boy, which I didn't even bother to go check out in person because I was obviously distracted by something else.
00:40:09 ◼ ► The Vision Pro. So this was the big headset announcement at WWDC. I remember Mike and I, you know, sitting together, basking in the sun of Apple Park,
00:40:22 ◼ ► watching the Vision Pro announcement and Vision OS, of course, as the software platform. What a day and what a week that we got to try the Vision Pro.
00:40:35 ◼ ► I got to try it the morning after. Mike, I believe you got to try the same day as me, but in the evening.
00:40:46 ◼ ► We were back together. Finally, John was there. A lot of our friends were there and a lot of developers obviously were there.
00:40:58 ◼ ► And just, you know, obviously there was watchOS 10 with the redesign of macOS Sonoma, iOS and iPadOS 17.
00:41:07 ◼ ► Big focus on widgets, right, this year. I think all of these operating systems can be easily described as widgets everywhere, I guess, except for tvOS.
00:41:19 ◼ ► Although the tvOS update was actually pretty nice, I should say, but it doesn't come with widgets.
00:41:31 ◼ ► We got widgets on the desktop in macOS Sonoma, which I use every day, unlike Jason Snell. I love him.
00:41:53 ◼ ► But really, it was all about the Vision Pro and how we were able to try the Vision Pro on our faces, on our heads at Apple Park.
00:42:17 ◼ ► And I still think about what that demo felt like. It's sort of burned in my brain, that feeling of uneasiness, good uneasiness, after I stepped out of that room when I tried the Vision Pro.
00:42:39 ◼ ► The amount I have generated from that half an hour, you know what I mean? Like, oh yes, I got to, yes. Allow me to tell you what the experience is like, where I'm using memories from nine months ago that was half an hour long, but great times.
00:42:54 ◼ ► And what else was, I mean, there was something else in June. Apple opened the Battersea, what's it called? Is it an Apple store? Is it an Apple office?
00:43:10 ◼ ► It's a campus. It's a full on campus, which I've been to and it's beautiful. Like just unbelievably beautiful as a building. Visually, I prefer it to Apple Park.
00:43:28 ◼ ► This was the historic Battersea power station, which if I recall correctly, this was the building on the cover of a Pink Floyd album?
00:43:59 ◼ ► And if you recall, this was that moment of 2023 with the whole Reddit saga of subreddits going down to stage a blackout in protest of Reddit's new API policies.
00:44:14 ◼ ► And Apollo, arguably the most popular Reddit client for iOS and iPadOS, the developer Christian Selig decided to shut down because of the prohibitive costs of the new Reddit API.
00:44:31 ◼ ► I sometimes wonder if that whole saga between Christian and the Reddit management didn't get so ugly at the time. We know with the phone calls and the press interviews and the recorded phone calls.
00:44:53 ◼ ► There could have been a different outcome. There could have been. We know this now. Like, I think time has told that there could have been.
00:45:00 ◼ ► Yeah. And, you know, we see, for example, Norwall, the other popular Reddit client is out version two.
00:45:20 ◼ ► But I know that Christian will never do it because maybe now it's more of a principle thing, which I understand.
00:45:30 ◼ ► On all sides. And I think, like, with the way that it went down, I understand why it's not around anymore because I think that the situation between these two parties is untenable now.
00:45:44 ◼ ► But there clearly, time has shown that there is a path, whether it is a, and also like maybe Christian was, felt confident that any more money, like if the subscription was more expensive, it just wasn't going to be worth it, right?
00:45:59 ◼ ► But like other apps seem to have struck some kind of deal with Reddit and they're making it work, but it didn't for Apollo.
00:46:08 ◼ ► And I think at the time in June, it seemed like there were going to be no third party apps, but that has borne out to be not the case.
00:46:19 ◼ ► And lastly, we celebrated 10 years together in June since we started a podcast called The Prompt at the time.
00:46:31 ◼ ► Yeah, it doesn't, I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about like grateful that we're still doing this, obviously, but like 10 years makes me feel kind of old.
00:46:47 ◼ ► The fact that we're able to still do this and we don't hate each other is like, that doesn't happen very much.
00:46:51 ◼ ► Like, it's a hard thing to do to work creatively with somebody for that period of time.
00:47:06 ◼ ► We can do it because as any good lasting relationship, we spice things up every once in a while, such as having people send us pictures of their thighs.
00:47:24 ◼ ► So, or as in the case of Steven, foot related content, that is also something that we do.
00:47:30 ◼ ► So that being said, put my thumb on the scale here and say June 2023 is a best I love you month.
00:47:57 ◼ ► July is one of those months where Apple was very excited about its media components of its company.
00:48:12 ◼ ► 54 Emmy Award nominations, including Ted Lasso, which is notable because it was the most Emmy nominated comedy for three consecutive years.
00:48:23 ◼ ► And like, I can't think of anything that deserves it better. Ted Lasso is perfect all the way through the Michael J. Fox movie, which I still haven't seen.
00:48:30 ◼ ► It's on my list. Maybe, maybe next week when, when I get some time off, I want to watch that.
00:48:35 ◼ ► But Apple TV plus continues just to rake in the awards. Some really great stuff in here for me.
00:49:12 ◼ ► This was kind of hand in hand with everyone being very excited about Lionel Messi joining Miami and MLS season pass.
00:49:25 ◼ ► Apple TV, the website, Apple's very excited about, about their MLS partnership, which is what, 10 years?
00:50:01 ◼ ► And then lastly, some foreshadowing for something that would come later that Goldman Sachs was looking for a way out of its partnership with the Apple card.
00:50:10 ◼ ► This came after months and months of stories of Goldman Sachs complaining about the Apple card and his partnership.
00:50:40 ◼ ► But it was a very exciting time, right? Like it kind of, we knew about it, but then it came out of nowhere.
00:51:17 ◼ ► Yeah. I lean towards normal just because like, I know, like I honestly do not care what happens to the company Twitter beyond just the gazing at the car accident.
00:51:27 ◼ ► But that brand dying for X, which is something that Elon's been obsessed with as a brand for 20 years, like that hurt.
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00:53:38 ◼ ► You're kind of sandwiched in between the tail off of WWDC and the ramp up to the iPhone.
00:53:44 ◼ ► But rumors began once again, or speculation began, of Apple potentially buying or investing heavily into Disney.
00:53:52 ◼ ► As Bob Iger started to scramble for waves to strengthen the company and talking about looking for strategic partners for ESPN,
00:53:59 ◼ ► he seems to have kind of waved that off now, but it was something we were talking about at the time.
00:54:03 ◼ ► The Relay FM podcast network turned nine years old and announced that their 10th anniversary show would be occurring in July of next year.
00:54:12 ◼ ► I don't know why I'm saying like this. In London. We're doing a show in London next year.
00:54:28 ◼ ► If you are still wanting to come to the show, you can. But we're going to be together in person for a big variety show in July of next year.
00:54:37 ◼ ► I'll also add just quickly that there is a live London channel in the Discord for members.
00:54:43 ◼ ► And some people who have gotten tickets who now have something else going on have tickets available there, too.
00:54:53 ◼ ► And The Verge did some cool art. Of course, one of them written by Jason kind of about the iMac G3.
00:55:06 ◼ ► Yes, the first iMac. Yes. I got confused with Mac. I don't know why I fell down that hole, but I did for a second.
00:55:27 ◼ ► Good. Good. Yes. We had a lot of tickets to sell. And we sold most of them. So that was pretty good.
00:55:38 ◼ ► Good month. We now get to the other big month of the year. Why is it that I always get to talk about these months?
00:56:06 ◼ ► Yes. New hardware. New iPhones. iPhone 15 and 15 plus. The ones nobody cares about. I'm kidding.
00:56:23 ◼ ► Look, we're all thinking it, right? We all think it. When somebody comes to you and they're like, I got an iPhone 15.
00:56:29 ◼ ► And you look down and it's on a 15 point. You're like, where's your titanium? He says, titanium.
00:56:35 ◼ ► I saw a iPhone 15 in the wild just yesterday. The pink. And that's that's how I knew what it was.
00:56:41 ◼ ► I recognized the color. But yeah, it's it's. Did you did you did you scoff at it when you get that aluminum out of here?
00:56:56 ◼ ► Except for the fact that you're doing it. But it's for it's entertainment. You got to understand it's fine line.
00:57:01 ◼ ► We phone shame for entertainment purposes only. Yeah, it's like being a comedian. When you say horrible things as a comedian, you know, you get a free pass.
00:57:17 ◼ ► Great phones, you know, and especially the 15 Pro Max this year with the 5x. Not a periscope, but actually a periscope camera.
00:57:42 ◼ ► It's been excellent so far. It's something that I use every single day. And the action button, which we mentioned a few months ago in this episode.
00:57:53 ◼ ► It is a real feature that you can customize in a bunch of different ways with shortcuts, with apps, with flashlight. A bunch of things that you can assign to the action button.
00:58:02 ◼ ► Really, really, really good feature. And also Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2.
00:58:15 ◼ ► We'll get to this, but relatively minor updates, I would say. The Apple Watch Ultra 2 in my mind is only exciting because Mike got it, finally.
00:58:34 ◼ ► I love it. The battery life is what's absolutely king. That's my biggest change. And the thing that I love the most about my Apple Watch now is I don't think about charging it.
00:58:45 ◼ ► I used to think about charging it all the time. I love the screen and the Apple Watch Ultra has just forced me to embrace what the Apple Watch is and just have one of the ugly watch faces with loads of complications on it.
00:58:56 ◼ ► But I'm happier now because I'm not trying to pretend that this watch is something that it isn't.
00:59:00 ◼ ► That's a good take. We also had the AirPods Pro 2 update with the USB-C and a kind of asterisk feature, which is the low latency audio support for the future Vision Pro integration.
00:59:16 ◼ ► I got the AirPods Pro 2 update with the USB-C case because at the time that was the only way you could get a USB-C case for your AirPods Pro 2.
00:59:26 ◼ ► You had to buy the whole thing, which I did. You know, it's fine. They are AirPods Pro 2 now with USB-C.
00:59:31 ◼ ► Apple in the process unveiled its first carbon neutral products. They made a big deal at the September event.
00:59:48 ◼ ► Mother Nature? Yeah, that was a cute idea for the first minute and then I just wanted to change the channel.
01:00:00 ◼ ► And Steven, you got to go to the keynote, whereas Mike and I, we stayed in the comfort.
01:00:16 ◼ ► And I couldn't go. But Steven went. How was it, Steven? 30 seconds review of the Apple event.
01:00:26 ◼ ► I only know because I've seen them on actual television, right? Not the developer scene that we're used to.
01:00:49 ◼ ► But people are trying to get their jobs and trying to get pictures, trying to get video.
01:01:02 ◼ ► Very quick trip to California for me, but well worth it. And I'm glad I was able to do it.
01:01:07 ◼ ► iOS 17, iPadOS 17, TVOS 17, WatchOS 10 and macOS Sonoma. Everything launched in September.
01:02:08 ◼ ► If you recall, this is the website service that Apple was still running because they remembered they were running this service after Stephen sent them an email years ago.
01:02:29 ◼ ► You reminded the single person at Apple that was in charge of iTunes movie trailers that it was time to retire the website and the app.
01:02:50 ◼ ► But on the home screen, there's still icons for iTunes movies and iTunes TV shows that when you click them, it says go to the Apple TV app, but you can't delete them.
01:03:09 ◼ ► And I find it very annoying. You can't remove them and nor did I do anything. So I would prefer if they could deal with that.
01:03:24 ◼ ► Oh, I also Apple introduced their post leather accessories, namely the fine one case for the iPhone.
01:03:42 ◼ ► And the fine woolen case is really bad and Apple should feel bad about selling a quote unquote premium case that is essentially made of paper like material that scratches easily, ages badly, gets easily stained.
01:03:58 ◼ ► This has to be the worst case I've ever gotten for my iPhone. And it's so such a bummer that it's the official successor to the premium leather case that Apple used to make.
01:04:13 ◼ ► And instead of making a, you know, a vegan leather option, which is essentially plastic, I mean vegan leather is basically plastic.
01:04:21 ◼ ► They decided to go with this textile of sorts kind of material that is really bad. And I, I really, really dislike it in a way that you can dislike a fifty dollar object.
01:04:34 ◼ ► You know, it's, it's not like it's, it's not like it's, it's the end of the world, but it's a bad fifty dollar object. In my opinion.
01:04:53 ◼ ► I don't know how leather will have looked over the time like level would have aged too, but I think leather ages a little more gracefully than this material does and over a much longer period of time.
01:05:04 ◼ ► Yeah. I feel like this is, this does not look like two and a half months of patina on a leather case. I'll put Lincoln Schoenerts to his post on threads.
01:05:13 ◼ ► And lastly, we close out September with some incredible news. Real AFM, the community around Real AFM, raised for the kids of St. Jude, $776,000.
01:05:31 ◼ ► Let me, let me, let me spell that number in Italian because I think it makes even more of an impact.
01:05:37 ◼ ► $8,700,000. That does actually make a bigger impact. You want like, I told you, I told you would, that is an incredible amount of money reaching the total of five year, five years donations of $2,98,000,000 raised a lot of money, you know, by Real AFM for St. Jude.
01:06:02 ◼ ► What an incredible accomplishment for you two specifically. I know there's a lot of people who work on this thing, but you know, you two should feel proud.
01:06:12 ◼ ► It doesn't even describe what I think you should feel like this is a truly once in a lifetime opportunity to get to raise this amount of money and make an actual impact.
01:06:22 ◼ ► You know, fighting, fighting cancer that affects so many kids, unfortunately, worldwide and St. Jude doing their incredible work, you know, fighting childhood cancer.
01:06:40 ◼ ► I feel like, I don't know how Steven feels, but like that, like the five year number now has passed my ability to conceive of it.
01:06:47 ◼ ► Like I struggle to work, to like think about that now and it's way easier for me to think about the year number.
01:06:54 ◼ ► I feel like I can't wrap my head around it now because it's just gotten so unfathomably large because of the generosity of our community.
01:07:02 ◼ ► Yeah, it's really incredible and I hope that we can vote as a trio that September is best. I love you.
01:07:11 ◼ ► Two best I love yous. I will say this is felt like in this review, 2020 is a good year.
01:07:18 ◼ ► It feels like it's been a good year for our stuff for this specific stuff only we're talking about just the things in which we are talking about.
01:08:13 ◼ ► New Apple Pencil complete with a chart so you know which one works with your iPad and what features you get.
01:08:29 ◼ ► It retails for what is it $99 trying to find it and Apple's very confusing press release page.
01:08:41 ◼ ► So there's that you can spend $99 and get the Apple Pencil first generation or $129 for the second generation.
01:08:59 ◼ ► And I really think this pencil is sort of a it's you can look at it right and you can see all the confusing things.
01:09:10 ◼ ► Apple also shipped a watch OS 10.1 which enabled double tap on the new Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2.
01:09:19 ◼ ► The double tap gesture has its roots and some accessibility features that have actually been around for quite a while on the watch and watch OS.
01:10:01 ◼ ► Like that's what it's for. Realistically, I use it for one thing, which is I'm walking and my and I know my watch is saying, hey, you're walking.
01:10:11 ◼ ► And I lift my wrist and I do the double tap action and then carry on because I have a coat on right now.
01:10:18 ◼ ► So it's easier for me to do this than to pull the sleeve of my coat up and tap it, especially as it gets colder and you have gloves on.
01:10:58 ◼ ► No, it doesn't seem like it is. Google launched the 100 percent leaked Pixel 8 and Pixel Watch 2.
01:11:10 ◼ ► And I believe we have a bet to see if the Pixel 9 Pro will come with the temperature sensor.
01:11:18 ◼ ► I think the bigger update here is the Pixel Watch 2 has a new processor, better battery life.
01:11:31 ◼ ► But if that works for you and you're in the Android ecosystem, this is probably the smartwatch to get.
01:12:47 ◼ ► It has got into some hot water because of the video reactions where you can like actually send fireworks,
01:12:58 ◼ ► I had this problem where I was on a Zoom call and I accidentally did a thumbs up and my video just froze.
01:13:16 ◼ ► I just think it's hilarious like that this is happening and that therapy platforms are having to put warnings up when you like, like tele, tele therapy.
01:13:25 ◼ ► It's just like a very strange thing that happens sometimes that I want is a call with my therapist and then there's all stuff going on.
01:13:33 ◼ ► I was on a call with me and Adina, we were talking to James Thompson and his wife Saskia and we were playing around with the things and balloons came from behind the sofa, which is pretty cool.
01:13:44 ◼ ► It worked out the depth of us on the sofa and had the balloons come from behind the sofa.
01:13:55 ◼ ► It will activate accidentally sometimes because they're very simple hand gestures sometimes that you're doing.
01:14:05 ◼ ► Like if you're counting one, two, three of your hands, like sometimes you'll send the piece thing, which I think I don't remember what that does like lasers or whatever.
01:14:18 ◼ ► I don't think I think it's just one of those things where like you don't know until it's out.
01:14:25 ◼ ► Like I think it's, you don't really think about it and then it's out and then it happens and then it's like, oh no, look what I've done.
01:14:31 ◼ ► Then October, we also had the unusual story that the problem with Jon Stewart had been canceled over editorial disagreements with Apple revolving around stories about AI and China.
01:14:45 ◼ ► I still don't know if we know the bottom of this, like what actually happened or what is happening.
01:15:24 ◼ ► But like realistically, a corporation is not going to just allow things that go against what its principles are or like what its business case is.
01:16:27 ◼ ► Steven, the shot on iPhone thing would be good if it wasn't surrounded by so much annoying coverage.
01:16:40 ◼ ► Like the work, I think of the word, but like the like the discourse cultural moment of it.
01:17:07 ◼ ► The previously mentioned for the iPad versions got updates, which is great that they got
01:19:37 ◼ ► But the lack of updates is killing me because I don't want to charge them with lightning anymore.
01:19:54 ◼ ► Then we get to this still ongoing saga, which I think is getting kind of silly at this point.
01:20:00 ◼ ► The company Beeper that was already making a service to sort of consolidate multiple messaging service into the same app,
01:20:10 ◼ ► into the same UI, launched Beeper Mini, an Android application to use iMessage on Android.
01:20:16 ◼ ► And they did so with a big splash in terms of YouTube creators explaining Beeper Mini, how it worked.
01:20:23 ◼ ► And the gist of it is the engineers at Beeper Mini were able to reverse engineer the iMessage protocol
01:20:30 ◼ ► and they were able at least initially to register a phone number from Beeper Mini onto your iMessage account.
01:20:38 ◼ ► And that was good until it lasted because after a couple of days, Apple, as part of a series of security updates,
01:20:52 ◼ ► And this started this sort of game of whack-a-mole between Apple and Beeper Mini in that Beeper Mini
01:21:07 ◼ ► And then Beeper Mini yesterday came back and said, "Okay, Beeper Mini is working again,
01:21:15 ◼ ► And this has gotten, I posted on threads that the next Beeper Mini workaround will be that you will need an iPhone
01:21:26 ◼ ► But we have officially reached the point where if you want to use Beeper Mini to have an iMessage on Android,
01:21:31 ◼ ► you've got to have a Mac, which I find it funny because you're still giving money to Apple to use iMessage on Android.
01:21:39 ◼ ► And we've gotten to the, I think, honestly ridiculous point where a bunch of senators have written a letter to the Department of Justice
01:21:50 ◼ ► Like, make your point that iMessage should be on Android, not that Beeper should exist.
01:21:56 ◼ ► It once again shows that these people don't know what they're asking for when they could actually make a good case.
01:22:04 ◼ ► But making the case that Beeper should be allowed as like breaking laws, which I'm sure is somehow, right,
01:22:13 ◼ ► breaking some kind of end user license agreement thing to do this, it's bananas to me that you would...
01:22:19 ◼ ► It's like an absolute whiff. You had the opportunity to make a good case and they bungled that case in my opinion. So stupid.
01:22:27 ◼ ► So moving on from Beeper Mini, the reports that Apple is going to end their relationship with Goldman Sachs for the Apple card.
01:22:36 ◼ ► And they are... Who knows who they are approaching? They said somebody, German said Chase would be a good fit.
01:22:44 ◼ ► I'm not sure if that was based on anything. A suggestion or based on any information. But yeah, Goldman Sachs probably...
01:23:21 ◼ ► We finally got details of what the two of the founders of Workflow, then Shortcuts, are up to these days after leaving Apple.
01:23:36 ◼ ► Conrad Kramer and Ari Wenstein joined by another former... I believe their previous... their former boss at Apple.
01:23:52 ◼ ► I want to say Kim Bevret, maybe. She was on stage at WWDC a few years back and she was running the whole Shortcuts initiative.
01:24:01 ◼ ► They have created a company with an incredible name, Software Applications Incorporated, and they are basically working on AI as applied to the Mac desktop, it seems.
01:24:13 ◼ ► They are working on the next big step in terms of large language models as applied to what you're doing on your computer.
01:24:21 ◼ ► Very few details at this point. The only thing we know is that they have an incredible website, which is an emulator of Mac OS 8,
01:24:28 ◼ ► and they are thinking about ways to leverage AI and large language models to extract information from what you're doing on your computer rather than typing into a text field.
01:24:45 ◼ ► We literally don't know anything else, but if there's people out there that know how to take advantage of integrations with the operating systems, it's these folks.
01:24:57 ◼ ► They know what they're doing, and I think it'll be exciting to see how they can put a different spin on AI that goes beyond having conversations with chat GPT.
01:25:08 ◼ ► Getting this right before the holiday break, but finally the first cars with the next generation CarPlay have been officially announced.
01:25:16 ◼ ► If you recall, this was a last... The next generation CarPlay, was it last year or was it this year?
01:25:25 ◼ ► That's right. Last year. So anyway, if you have the money, say it for a Porsche or an Aston Martin, and you want to use next generation CarPlay, you know, you got to do it.
01:25:38 ◼ ► If you're shopping for a new car, may I suggest the Aston Martin? That's a really nice brand.
01:25:49 ◼ ► If you recall, the big giant multi-display thing with CarPlay and different modules and widgets and whatnot.
01:26:06 ◼ ► As we are recording this, the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 have barely, barely 24 hours to continue existing in the United States.
01:26:20 ◼ ► Because as part of an ITC ruling in the US, a long-standing patent dispute between Apple and the medical company called Massimo, Massimo,
01:26:31 ◼ ► around how the Apple Watch blood oxygen sensor technology works, like the algorithm for scanning your heart rate and determining the blood oxygen level.
01:26:40 ◼ ► Well, the ITC has ruled that Apple must stop sales in the US of the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Ultra 2.
01:26:57 ◼ ► Well, I don't know if this is going to affect their Christmas, right? Because that's like, that's wrapping up.
01:27:05 ◼ ► But surely to have your watches taken out of stores because the ITC, the International Trade Commission ruled that they are basically...
01:27:27 ◼ ► So any stock that's in America can still be sold by a third party. So Best Buy can still sell them even after the ban comes into effect.
01:27:35 ◼ ► Yeah. But once all the stock's gone, they can't re-stock, right? So like, watches can still be bought after this point.
01:27:48 ◼ ► When I first heard about this news, it was kind of like, oh, wow, that's wild. And then I read Ben Thompson's Chitakuri update where he kind of details Massimo's case.
01:28:04 ◼ ► Basically, Apple approached this company, their like merger and acquisitions head approached this company and was like, hey, let's work together.
01:28:13 ◼ ► We want to see what you're working on. And then slowly over the case of like a year, hired all of the key employees of the company.
01:28:29 ◼ ► And one of the people said like there was like an interview or an email that came out or something where they were like, where this person spoke to Apple and was like, oh, I believe I can advance your business in all the ways about and go around the patents.
01:28:42 ◼ ► It's not going to affect it. And now we've gotten to the point where this has happened.
01:28:46 ◼ ► Also, the fact that Apple have done this to Samsung, right? Like this ITC ban, Apple did this to Samsung.
01:28:52 ◼ ► So it's kind of like a what goes around comes around. And from my perspective, it's like this is the bed you've made for yourself.
01:29:03 ◼ ► The companies that they felt were infringing on their patents. And now this company's doing it and they have this history of poaching employees from Massimo.
01:29:33 ◼ ► Right. Like I can't imagine it's going to happen. So I don't know what they're going to do.
01:29:37 ◼ ► There's been reports that Apple's working on a software fix, but there are reports saying that, well, Massimo is saying hardware is the thing here.
01:29:45 ◼ ► So I don't know what's going to happen. But my I would say like it was it's a paid daily update.
01:29:52 ◼ ► But I think it's well worth reading. Like Ben's reporting really enlightened me. I'll be honest.
01:29:58 ◼ ► This is the only report that I've read in any detail, but he's quoting other sources. It's not his sourcing.
01:30:10 ◼ ► But I guess it's clear that their employees went to work for Apple. Right. Like that is a thing that can be proven.
01:30:23 ◼ ► You can't just like do this and expect no ramifications. So that's where I'm coming from.
01:30:29 ◼ ► If that's the case, then I agree. So what do we think of December, which is still not over.
01:30:35 ◼ ► So for keep this in mind, things may get better. Things may get even worse. I go inferior.
01:30:42 ◼ ► Yeah. It's like there's stuff going on, but like none of it makes me feel good. Like the beeper mini thing has just gotten really annoying now.
01:30:49 ◼ ► Oh, there is one thing I do want to know on the story, which I hadn't done yet because I got really excited.
01:30:55 ◼ ► Huge props to friend of the show, Chance Miller for getting this information. Oh yeah. Yes.
01:31:07 ◼ ► under chance at the moment where they have been getting more and more and more like breaking news from Apple.
01:31:14 ◼ ► And like there was some discourse about this on threads, but like I think one of the things that was an issue.
01:31:20 ◼ ► No, the discourse is that you can call 9 to 5 Mac an enthusiast website. You know, I was really annoyed.
01:31:26 ◼ ► There's a lot of connotations around this word to people that write and I understand it.
01:31:32 ◼ ► I consider myself an enthusiast, but I also don't consider myself a journalist and I think that that's the thing.
01:31:38 ◼ ► That's the kind of objective that you can consider yourself because when you refer to others as enthusiasts, there's no way around it.
01:31:46 ◼ ► You are looking down upon them. And I just don't think as I replied to Nili Patel, the editor in chief of The Verge,
01:32:00 ◼ ► There is a long history with this word, which is too much to go into, but I understand the idea that if you consider yourself a journalist,
01:32:08 ◼ ► which I'm not saying nobody here isn't, but like if you think of yourself as a journalist, being called an enthusiast isn't great.
01:32:23 ◼ ► It's incredible to go back and imagine, you know, 9 to 5 Mac a few years ago getting this kind of scoop directly from an Apple spokesperson.
01:32:32 ◼ ► Also, they got the RCS scoop, which was I think in November, which we forgot to put in the thing. I don't know why.
01:32:49 ◼ ► Then we get to April, an inferior minus month. May was good, but June was best I love you.
01:33:23 ◼ ► Official historian Kate said in the Discord that they've they've equated this to a mathematical formula.
01:33:43 ◼ ► The years are getting the years are getting better for us as they get worse for planet Earth.
01:34:05 ◼ ► So if you want to go read a bunch of stories, you can check those out on the Web at relay.fm/connected/481 or in your podcast app.