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And so, yeah, I'm thinking the fiber content of this year's WWDC may be higher than usual.
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And that's, it's, you know, necessary roughage.
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It's fine, but it's not the most exciting to me.
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So where I am with this right now, like I have been on a little bit of a journey where at first I didn't think Apple would have much to show.
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Then I thought they would have much to show.
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And now I think maybe they, they won't again, or at least the state of AI has moved so fast in the last even six weeks
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that I feel like even with all the stuff they're going to show, it might feel a little bit underwhelming.
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Like the amount of time that they're going to spend on the features and that these features won't, they will pale in comparison to Microsoft, for example.
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That's kind of the fear that I have right now that like it's not, it's not going to be that like they're going to spend all this time talking about all this incredible new stuff, but it might not actually feel that incredible.
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However, I'm kind of also at the same time, like where I am today, I'm allowing for myself to remain hopeful that they're going to have some stuff that is cool.
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Yeah. Oh, and I hope there, I hope there is, but also when I get that eat your vegetables feeling, part of it is that Apple does need to do table steaks, does need to catch up in a bunch of areas.
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Right. And that's less exciting, but it's necessary.
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Like I was listening to, to ATP over the weekend and one of the things Marco said struck me, which is he was like, I hope that they do things to excite us and show that Apple is pushing things forward and not just playing catch up.
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And then John said something like, but those are table stakes.
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And that was my thought, which is on one level, I understand not being excited by Apple doing this stuff that's already been announced by other, other players, Microsoft and Google in particular.
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On the other hand, they got to do it right.
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Like if they don't do it, it's a disaster.
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Like they have to show the table stakes and then how are they pushing the state of the art forward?
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Where's the little Apple magic, that little Apple magic here and there where they're like, aha, everybody else does it like this, but we decided to do it like this, which when that is done right, everybody else goes, oh yeah, we should do it like that too.
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So I hope, I hope we see some of that.
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And I, and I do remain hopeful that they will be able to do both of these things, like they will be able to show off the basics and also show me some stuff that's going to get me excited.
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And if Siri transforms finally from being something that's just really not very good to something that's a lot better, or at least has the potential to be a lot better if we trust them and believe that it will be whenever it ships, you know, that, that would be a big step right there.
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Cause that's the thing we've been wanting for a long time.
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Um, there's also kind of like where I am right now is not too dissimilar to kind of how I was feeling for the vision pro shipped, which is no matter what the feeling is, no matter what the features are, it's going to be really interesting to talk about.
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That's kind of where I am with WWDC, AI or whatever they announced at WWDC, there will be a lot for us to pick apart, whether it's good, bad, or whether we like it or not.
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That's kind of where I'm feeling with it.
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Like, I mean, arguing about it, um, cause I do think that there are a lot of people who feel like a lot of the AI stuff is hype and a lot of it is, but what percentage is hype?
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And so they're going to be people who might say, Oh, Apple didn't do this thing and the counter is going to be, yeah, but that thing is bad actually.
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They may need a bit more, uh, explanation as we go through it, but these are the rules for the WWDC draft this year.
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There will be 12 rounds, 24 overall picks as we pick each, we each get a pick per round.
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The picks this time are chosen from a predetermined list of choices as they always are, which we have agreed could be verifiable on screen and not ridiculously obvious.
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Each host, just the two of us, must draft at least one pick from each of the following five categories, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, VisionOS and AI.
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Each host must call out the mandatory picks specifically when they are made, right?
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So if we're saying, oh, this is going to be my iOS pick, or this is going to be my iPadOS pick.
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We each have to make one pick in each of these categories.
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Every other pick for the 12 rounds can be from anything.
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It can be, we could pick more iOS stuff, more AI stuff, but we have to make at least one pick in each of the specific categories that I mentioned.
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Yeah, the goal here is to spread the picks around at least a little bit.
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So they're not, for example, all AI picks and, uh, it provides a little bit of a challenge and there's a little bit of game going on there.
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Um, I explained to Mike that it's a little like fantasy sports where you've got a roster and you've got particular slots that you have to fill.
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And the example I gave is that, you know, you, you, it's the last round and then you pick a kicker.
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It's that kind of thing where, uh, there's just, we're not trying to complexify this.
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We're actually trying to do this so that the podcast is better.
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And we talk about each of these five subjects at some point, rather than piling on one category.
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The winner of the previous draft gets to pick first, which is me.
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And as always, to count in scoring, it must either be clearly announced on stage or on a slide during the presentation.
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Steven Hackett will adjudicate in the case that we need it, but we will always try to work it out ourselves.
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No partial points are awarded and the points awarded on the episode of final and finalized during the scoring segment.
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And I think for my same thinking, which is, I mean, it's unlikely that they would match last year, right?
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They introduced an entire platform and hardware.
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So over two hours, you figure it's gotta be less than that.
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And if previous years have always got to the high 145 to 150 Mark, oh boy, I'm going to say under an hour and 50.
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I'm going to say under, and I, I feel like the AI stuff, as we said earlier, is most likely to just be replacing most of what they would normally do rather than being additive to the typical OS improvements.
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So I was surprised because it looks like generally they're, they shoot for 145, but I think generally what they're really shooting for is two and not 145, but they're happy to come under.
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206 in 2023, remember the whole vision pro there. And yet it was really only 15 minutes, 20 minutes longer than the previous one.
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So clearly they're shooting for something between 145 and two.
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I didn't feel comfortable choosing two as the over under because I think vision pro really pushed that thing along.
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I wasn't comfortable pitch choosing 145 because I think that would have made it a lot easier to choose the over.
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So this was your question is, is it going to be a little longer than normal because of AI or is it going to kind of be in the ballpark?
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What this, but I just feel like if they were going to do anything and not have some kind of enhancements to it, that that is going to be one of these things that they're going to, they're going to seem behind if they're not making some kind of, uh, uh, yeah.
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Um, uh, as Mark Herman has reported that the idea that they're going to make some changes in system settings, uh, whether it's reorganization or favorites or other things, the organization, I'm not saying it's necessarily going to look dramatically.
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Different, but that they're going to make some organizational changes in Mac OS settings so that it's better.
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Now this may also be an iOS and iPad iOS, but I'm specifically saying, you know, Mac OS, they're going to do some, something to write the disaster.
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Uh, but this one was the one that I had labeled.
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I wasn't going to pick it for anytime soon, but, uh, this one seemed like maybe of all of the things we have, the thing that is the most likely to occur, if anything.
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See the beauty of it is once the good quarterbacks are taken, you're left with the bad quarterbacks.
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But anyway, I, I went on a little rant on this on six colors podcast last week.
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Cause I just was thinking about the system settings again.
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Don't make me think about them and like how, how frustrating it is that they have no they're organized, except there is no order.
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Um, and things are in various weird places and you can't find anything.
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So all you can really do is search and how it could be so much better, either better ordered, or if you're going to admit that there is no order show recent make, be able to pin favorites.
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It's anything would be better than what's currently there.
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So if I'm thinking about what are the things that Apple's local models can do, this seems like the easiest that you would be able to either visually or audibly.
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I actually think they will do both get summaries of all the notifications that you have.
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Um, or you know, you're reading it, you've got an email on your screen and you could ask the assistant, what is this about?
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But these kinds of things, which I think could be really helpful, right?
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Like you're in a group chat that you're super noisy.
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Be like, what's the group chat talking about today?
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You know, and that you could, it could read stuff on screen.
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That would be my real hope is that it's actually gonna read stuff on screen so it wouldn't even necessarily need developer buy-in, right?
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Like, so you could go to a Discord channel and be like, what's happening here?
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And I hope that Apple would be able to do that, right?
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I feel like they could do that and I would like it if they would.
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But I think the iOS, sorry, the AI kind of summaries of things could be, could be really nice.
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And I think this could be something that Apple could implement in a way that, and I think a lot of these features is going to be important that they have stuff that they can do without there being a need for developers to have to opt in.
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Cause I think that sometimes can, can halt them a little bit.
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All right, Mike, the, uh, the gamesmanship continues.
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With my next pick, I choose an iPad pick because, because again, I don't think there are very many iPad things to pick, so I'm going to pick.
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Yeah, it's a second round pick people.
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The calculator app is coming to iPad OS.
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I mean, I'm finding this interesting the way that you're, you're doing this.
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Cause I had some of these picks and I was wondering like, what is best?
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Is it best to claim the categories or is it best to claim the things that are most likely to happen, what we believe might be most likely to happen anyway?
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My feeling was that there were some categories so limited that I was unhappy with any of my choices.
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And then there were categories where there was lots of stuff to pick from that I felt felt okay about.
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And I felt like if there was literally only one Mac item and for me it was actually only two iPad items.
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I would just try to grab them up front because I felt like it's the it's again, it's that if there are only three good quarterbacks, you want to grab them.
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And if they're gone, then it doesn't matter.
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I could, I have like a row of four app icons and a bunch of widgets on my iPad home screen.
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I could put eight app icons there and it'd be fine.
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Like I can, if you look at the dock, I have so many in the dock in that same amount of space.
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I know it's a ridiculous and I, I'm assuming we're not going to get any changes to the iPad home screen because they'll do one of those things where they put it on the iPhone and then they would make iPad users wait a year for it.
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That Siri can perform more actions inside of apps.
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These are essentially shortcut actions is the way we'll think about them, but that you'll be in an app and you'll be able to say, be able to ask your assistant to do something for you inside of that application and that it will just go ahead and perform it.
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Um, for the, for the nerds among us, I guess this will just be built on the same technology that, uh, shortcuts actions are built on like app intense and that kind of stuff to be able to, to surface things.
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So like for, let's think of an example here that you could be, what app, what app would have good action?
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And you could just, you could just press the little button on the side of your phone and just say, stop my upgrade timer.
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And it would just go ahead and do that because Siri should be able to understand what the app is able to perform.
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The app has been able to tell the system, these are the things you can have and just have the assistant do this kind of stuff.
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This to me feels like I think would, will be especially nice on the Mac, I think is where I can imagine myself using it a lot more.
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But the idea of being able to talk to the computer and have the computer do things, it goes back to the, um, what was the name of that?
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Uh, the, the, the knowledge navigator, right? It goes back to the knowledge navigator idea that we spoke about a few weeks ago, that you were essentially asking the computer to perform actions and the computer should be able to understand and perform those actions.
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No, this is the, this is the dream, right?
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Is that, is that one of the dredgeries that we have not been freed from by computers is operating computers.
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And if you could tell your computer to do a thing instead of having to click 80 times in order to get it to do that thing.
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I mean, this is, to me, this is the dream of user automation, which is instead of having to build shortcuts or write scripts, you tell the computer what you want to do and it does it even better.
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You could tell it what to do and say the next time I ask you just do this thing.
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Um, but yeah, I think, I think, I hope we see this.
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I hope this is the, I mean, when they bought, um, workflow and made it shortcuts, they put it in the Siri group for a reason.
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Uh, yeah, I mean, it is, I've seen this in a bunch of different apps, the code, code completion, suggestion, asking for help, asking for a routine, a subroutine to be dropped in basically that Apple has trained a model on, uh, Swift, at least if not objective C on Swift and that it will aid you using AI to aid coding in some way beyond that.
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I am not a coder, but like, I would imagine that they're going to look to, uh, what Microsoft has done with copilot as their inspiration.
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I mean the code copilot before they changed the brand to everything being code pilot, you know, the one, I mean, the one that's that they use in their, in their development tools.
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I remember we, we spoke about this for the first time, maybe last year or the year before, like this felt like the thing that would come first.
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Um, there's kind of like the first, uh, post GPT machine learning feature. We did not get Xcode stuff.
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I think I remember there being a report once that Apple was concerned about accidentally leaking its own code and that's maybe why this took them a little bit longer.
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Like they didn't want their internal stuff to be getting out through Xcode AI stuff.
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Like I, I, this is a Mark Gurman report.
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This kind of feature is, is just a before I think Google had a thing called emoji kitchen, I think is the name.
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This just feels like such an Apple thing to do to me.
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I think we spoke about it on the show last week that, you know, the system's going to be suggesting these handcrafted sticker emoji for you to share with your friends and make your chats more lively.
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And by the hands of artificial intelligence.
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I mean, I can imagine this maybe being fun for a few days, but I don't.
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Unless this is really going to be very impressive and that all they are going to do what they actually should do, which is find a way to make them emoji, but then they're only going to work on iOS devices anyway.
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And it's going to be a bit of a mess, but I do think they're going to go to this well and this is a fun thing that they can do that people will think will be fun.
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And it will also show really well in ads.
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So generative in the most limited sense, which I think there's going to be a lot of that.
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If I had to make a prediction, I think there's going to be a lot of that where it's like, oh, you know, usually the AI announcement is like, we have a vast expense of the world and it'll create things.
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And some of it will be bad at some of it will be interesting.
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And some of it might even be what you call good.
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Um, and then Apple will be like, we have a very limited directory of things from which we are choosing and it allows us to keep control because the AI can do what it wants, but only within our area.
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And I think that that sounds very Apple.
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That's an Apple way to do AI is we trained it on a very limited collection of emoji glyphs and that's all it can use.
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Um, we talked about this last week and I think that I'm going to stand by that speculation.
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The idea that I don't think Apple is going to just say, although if they did, it would count.
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Like if you want to make Facebook green, you can just do it.
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I think it's going to be a developer story where they're like, aha, we're going to have themes or, or we're going to let you choose just like they do with SF symbols, choose a layer that will be the, where the.
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Theme color will be reflected like a highlight or something like that.
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And that if a developer like just absolutely hates the idea, they just won't participate.
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And nobody, nobody cares just about your brand, do whatever.
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I don't think they're going to do that, but I do think there's going to be some sort of theming involving the coloring of app icons.
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And that's why, uh, I think this pick is broad enough to encompass that idea that like, if you want to say, I want orange, you'll get orange probably from some, if not all, or in some way that may or may not be satisfying, but app icon colors.
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That's how you get the spatial kind of effect.
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This could be the basis for changing some element.
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Maybe you would be able to specify which element could be colored and which would, which is, which is how SF symbols basically work is that there's a portion of the, of the symbol that is designated as being kind of like attached to a color.
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Um, so you don't just recolor the whole symbol.
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You can recolor a portion of the symbol.
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It's abstracting the, the design of what's colorable and what's not.
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And I could totally see them doing something like that.
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I can't find the name of that person in the feedback system.
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But if that was you, thank you very much.
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And then developers could provide some, but still, this one for me was low down in my picks because I remain skeptical of it.
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So bottom line is this is my, um, you know, it was my highest rated iOS pick left, Mike.
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And so for strategy reasons, not wanting to go even lower on my list, even though I know that I wouldn't probably have rated this very high either in the overall percent change of chance of happening.
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But I think it's higher percent chance of happening then literally everything else that I see on the iOS list.
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Now I'm wondering if I, if I should start jumping ahead to some of my mandatory picks or from just want to keep with the things that I think are most likely, uh, I'm good.
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So I am actually going to take this time to at least get one more mantra pick off the board, which is a vision OS pick.
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Oh, and my sixth round pick is that we will be able to rearrange apps in vision OS.
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Because my word, if they don't do that, the platform's over.
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If I can't move my apps around, what are we doing here?
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You know, the thing, the thing that could come back to bite me with this is they might not show this in the keynote.
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I, I had this second on my vision OS list, but I didn't have it rated very high.
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And my thought is this, which is one, will they show it into, will they really do that?
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Or will there be some other like concept for apps?
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And I don't, or will they say, you know, there's that many apps, it's not that big a deal.
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We'll just leave them in alphabetical order for a little while longer.
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It, they should totally do it, but will they do it?
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And what's my confidence in them being able to do that, uh, and show it.
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And I'm not clear how much is going to be in vision OS that this would seem to be table stakes, right?
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Well, I wrote the book on it literally.
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And so I'm going to choose AI powered tools for editing photos, which I think is a pretty good bet.
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Apple, I mean, everybody else is doing it.
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Apple has really resisted doing retouching tools in photos in general.
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Like there's not even a retouch basic retouch tool in photos for iOS, even though there has been on the Mac for a while now, the one on the Mac isn't very good.
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I've been using photo mater for years to do this photo mater does a great job.
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That's really just an improved enhance of what they already did, but they can call it ML.
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But anyway, so I just think there will be ways in the photos app.
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It's one of the most straightforward ways to shout out AI.
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They've been using AI tools and photos for years.
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They may say that they may like photos has had AI tools in it for 10 years because it kind of has.
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Um, but I do think that they have to do that thing where you can eat.
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It'll either be smart retouching of like skin, or it'll be remove a person in the background, but, but it's, or it'll be like an AI adjustment where it's like they call it out and say, oh, we can, we can, you know, use AI to adjust your photo to make it look good or fill a particular kind of mood or like there'll be stuff like that in there.
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I think it's going to be more like, I mean, like literally I know that these are the demos, but like literally I had a photo when we went to Hawaii a few years ago that I used that, that was my, my wife and daughter on a beach.
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And there was some guy walking in the background and I was like, goodbye, take that guy out.
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And photo made her did, you know, I just really circled him and then photo made her replaced him and he was gone.
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And, um, that's the stuff they need to do, but I agree.
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There's probably not going to be like circle, select the sky and tell it to be nighttime or like, I don't think it's going to do stuff or put a unicorn.
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Like, no, I don't think it's going to do any of that stuff.
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Do you think they would do something like the best take feature where you could change people's heads?
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I think it's possible that they will do something like that, where you take a burst and then it, it tries to merge them together into the best, into the best take out of the merge out of pieces of the merge.
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Because I felt like they take so many photos anyway.
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I'd really like it if my photos app could do that and be like, Oh yeah, here's your kids where they're both smiling.
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And, and like I had to, I had to bodge that together myself.
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So it would be really great if that feature was there, even if it was just an option where Apple was like, you know, none of these looked great, but I put them together for you.
00:43:51
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And some of that can be detected actually when you're taking the photo, but yeah, to, to be able to analyze.
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Take a burst, even if you don't, even if you generally just throw it away and analyze it, analyze the faces and try to make sure that the faces are all looking at the camera or, you know, smiling or whatever you're not blinking.
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They could even use, and they might even brag about it.
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Like use the accelerometer on the camera to realize that you're holding the camera still and, and analyzing the photo.
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So you know that this is basically the same photo in the very, in a very short window and just keep capturing as long as you're, you're holding the camera up so that you can do those merges.
00:44:52
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There's lots of smart stuff they could do to solve a problem, right?
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Because this is, when we talk about AI, so much AI hype is about a solution in search of a problem.
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And I know that Google and others have done work in this area, a lot of work in this area and Apple hasn't, but like it doesn't change the fact that it is a problem that needs, that would help people to have a solution, a usable photo for your Christmas card.
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Because both your kids have their eyes open in the picture, even though when you press the lens or the shutter, one of them had their eyes closed, but a second later they opened it and the system recognized that and you were still holding steady.
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Like that is a huge solution that yeah, right now you can use somebody else's platform for it, or you can do what I do, which is have to bring it into Photoshop and align the images and then try to blend them.
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And it's a, I mean, it took me like an hour to get that photo ready for the poster that's on our wall in our living room.
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Alright, so our next pick, we're into round number seven now.
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Oh boy, I'm going to rip off the bandaid.
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Apple announces partnership with OpenAI for AI features.
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But I think they're going to, okay, they're going to play up OpenAI in the sense that they want to be recognized as using one of the leaders in this field for some features.
00:48:51
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And yet I think they're going to downplay OpenAI, if that makes any sense.
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I think they need to cite it and they want to cite it, but I don't think they're happy about it.
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And I think it's going to be one of those things where it's like a logo on a slide or maybe even just a mention and no logo.
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I don't personally, I don't expect that we're going to see like a return to the stage from Mr.
00:49:38
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Like if you really want that, you can use other chat bots such as chat GPT, right?
00:49:43
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And which leaves open the door that they'll make deals with Google, for example, for Gemini, right?
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I think they're going to, so this is the thing is I think they need to do it because they want to be seen as having this play.
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But so I think you're going to get the point, but I, I would predict the downplaying of it like that.
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They're going to toss it off as like, cause not only do some people have strong feelings about OpenAI negatively, but also it does make Apple seem like they had to go outside for help.
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So I think they're going to downplay it, but mention it.
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I would say that that's most likely, especially considering the recent controversies, you know, that maybe it's a thing where, Hey, look, we're doing this, but let's not.
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I am leaning towards them not having Sam Altman come out now, like where there was a point where I think that was a definite.
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I know, don't think that will happen, but I can imagine them saying that, Hey, and when you want to do this, it goes out to our partner OpenAI or one of our partners, including OpenAI.
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And now that it's not a stage show, there's no come out on stage anymore, right?
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You would have to, you would have to make a much more integrated thing with a partner to have them in your video, which you could also take out later.
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Um, I think that maybe, maybe Sam Altman comes on stage, maybe if it's a live show at the Steve Jobs theater, but it's not.
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And so I think that it won't happen that way.
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I mean, I'm not saying I guarantee it like anything could happen, but I wouldn't put money on it for sure.
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With my pick number seven, um, I'm going to go with AI enhancements to iWork apps.
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Oh, I feel like this is a quick win for Apple to say, you know, we'll let you, uh, start a business document and pages or pages will prompt you and put some things in there, or they'll suggest a next paragraph for you or some of this basic text to generative AI, or there's something in keynote.
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Like you could be say like, you know, build me, you know, build me some bullet points about this or build me a slide deck about this.
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I just, I feel like there's something, uh, an AI related thing that they can roll into an app.
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Honestly, I think it's easier for them to roll AI stuff into apps than the OS anyway.
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And so being able to do that, my, my guess would be, it's going to be some tech stuff in pages.
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Cause that's the easiest thing for them to do.
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So I don't feel super confident about this, but like it, it among what's out there.
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I think that this is one of the more, we're at the point now where my confidence level has dropped and I'm just trying a bunch of stuff that I think is possible, but not necessarily at the highest rate of likelihood.
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I didn't really think about this one, to be honest.
00:52:16
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I, I see what you're saying, especially in pages, but I wonder if they will have any enhancements that are specific to these apps that wouldn't just work in any app, you know?
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Well, I mean, I guess that's a question I, I, if, I mean, my argument would be that if they say you can generate auto-generate a paragraph in pages or notes, that it still counts because it's in pages.
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Yeah, yeah, it would, but I'm wondering if they would do that, you know, that that's the thing.
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It's like, if it's just tech generation, it's like, you can just do it wherever you write your things, you know?
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I think it's, it could very well happen only because coming next year is a tough one, right?
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Like they would rather not, they would rather say late later this year and then announce at the end of the year, oh, that'll actually be coming in the spring, but will they just come up right up and say coming next year?
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Maybe that that's what it's going to take.
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So I think it's a really good, a good gamble to take here.
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Here's what I imagine for this is like, there's some feature where like, and we want to show you a preview of something we have coming next year.
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It's, it's a fairly straightforward thing to expand transcription to other places so that if you leave yourself a voice memo, it comes back as text.
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Um, or maybe even syncs to notes or something, right?
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Like maybe there's actually once you can make voice memos into text, maybe you could just do that there, or you could just leave a voice memo and notes.
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But this is the idea of making audio system-wide audio that contains spoken word into the words so that you can search them and see them.
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So I think that this is a, a pretty likely scenario.
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Which I hate this pick, but it's the only thing that I could kind of imagine.
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And it leads back for what you were saying earlier of like sometimes the iPhone gets the thing and then the next year the iPad gets a thing.
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Last year, the iPhone got standby mode.
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And I think especially with the new OLED iPads, it would be kind of cool for my iPad to have something on the screen where even when I'm not using it.
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And my hope would be that it wouldn't necessarily be when, just when the iPad is charging that they might come up with something else for the iPad.
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Um, but some kind of standby mode for iPadOS is something I could maybe see happening.
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Wouldn't it be great to be able to take an iPad and especially an OLED iPad, you know, and have it also be your status board when you're not using it.
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Because I feel like what you could do here is you just put it on the OLED ones and say it's a standby mode, but essentially it's always on display.