wwdc or as i like to call it what who don't
care whoa just kidding i actually do really care
about this year's wwdc because there's a lot of interesting
stuff that apple announced and so we have the guy from
the apple channel Mac Address lots of interesting stuff announced lots of lots
of stuff announced these uh these kind of videos they've been doing since the
pandemics started just go by so fast and they have to put everything in there and
you are feeling that even more now because you had to do a same day yeah
yeah www video is it out now it's out yeah we got it
out at 10am how was that it was uh it was great we like went to the park to
film my uh my piece of camera because they actually did invite the media this
year to the apple campus we're just not
going to watch the video live we're not media now see i kind of like i kind of
like the online feel because a they can
be a bit snappier maybe but who knows i don't know uh there's also like it feels
kind of weird when apple is like hey come to our special campus it feels kind
of culty you know it's like it's like work everyone up feels like an mlm sort
of like uh but you mean in this like what they did specifically
our devotees are so we're working them into a
faith kind of frenzy i don't know if i viewed it in that
sense but that's how i view it and i don't like it i did think it was quick
you're just part of the cult matter i just know this is quite interesting yeah
right let's not get into that but what we should get into is what was
actually announced at the conference
uh yesterday yes today's tuesday as you know what uh was there something that
you were like the most excited about yeah i was most excited to see the
macbook air uh get updated but i was
most disappointed to see the colors the macbook air is available in because
there were rumors coming out that like you know for for a while that the
macbook air would come in similar colors as the imac and if we look at you know
the historical precedence of the original imac and then the ibook
um which came out a couple funky colors at the time and it was like my favorite
computer i was also you know a child so it was it very much appealed to that
the first thing so we're talking about macbook air and the first thing you want to talk about is the color yeah
it's yes what about the fact that what about the fact that it looks like a
macbook pro uh it's squished now that sounds that's great actually let's um do
we have a visual for that here's one ding nice all new design look at it so
this is the midnight color which is probably the most colorful of it uh
midnight is kind of apples almost black with a bit of blue the problem is that
they're kind of which is we know yes space gray of the
uh starlight which i have not been a fan of starlight since it came out on the
iphone um and then midnight so that's not how
it's a lot more formal to in a sense than the imac um
and there's an interesting kind of i guess aspect to the macbook air where it
is a little bit in this interesting kind of
almost pro space where yeah we get these
performance improvements and a media engine that includes prores acceleration
while kind of maintaining that super light fanless uh
you know efficient design it's funny because i've been i've been kind of
humming and hawing about the apple silicon transition because as we've been getting to the more performant
aspects to it i've been sort of discovering like it's a bit harder to figure out
and see the performance increases and and also to see the benefits of
uh apple silicon's efficiency because like on a desktop you just plug it in
the wall it's always getting electricity you don't need the efficiency other than
keeping your house cool i guess but like i've been i switched to this
and like the knowledge that maybe you're helping with the environment and yeah
or that like or it's like an incredible you're just you're getting like a really
efficient process right like that's an incredible sure yeah but like
another space heater yeah but like to to remind myself of what made apple silicon
so revolutionary i've been using this Intel macbook air this 2020 model and it
is insanely slow i am staggered at how
how slow and hot it gets wow compared to one of these things like it is it is
incredible like it is mind-boggling we're now in a place where like this is
mind-bogglingly bad well and they they showed one of those
graphs that they showed during the presentation uh
had i think the m2 is like i forget exactly what it was but the the
the leap up of above the m1 version of
the macbook air was like around 30 35
so they said what is it this is well this is an Intel laptop but they did say
that it's like 15 times faster than the Intel macbook air with the with the uh
i5 yeah so crazy yeah i mean like it was it's smart
of them to show these graphs showing just how far m2 has has taken like
mobile performance of especially ARM based you know desktop class sort of
yeah not okay i don't want to say that people are going to call me out but like
how far apple has taken mobile laptop
chips uh uh you know since since the last like uh Intel powered max that's
it's crazy yeah and apple silicon i really i'm kind of convinced that apple
silicon is really about the mobile laptops kind of space the
efficiency is really for making laptops better
desktops desktops never really need i
guess haven't needed that much efficiency um because usually instead of
efficiency you just you take the same amount of energy and have more performance out of it but so let's talk
about m.2 specifically then after a second like the drive
the m2 chip the new apple silicon m.2
SSD you can plug it in your iphone uh what a dream m2 has now up to 24
gigabytes of unified memory yeah up from
yeah that's the top option but have you looked at what the the macbook air can do can that
do up to 24. it can yeah see that's crazy you got the two chips against the
the thing one of them now can become a 16 kick chip alongside an eight gig chip
and then you can have two eights or two fours oh right basically how it works i
mean i think memory was a big bug bear for people
with the macbook and one macbook air it not having enough
um and so i think this at least will help satiate those who want a fanless
design but a little bit more more yeah and i think i'm interested to see how
well this does because with the old macbook air it at least kind of had that
tapered body so you could understand how there's some sort of like airflow going
on in there but this is just like so flat it's crazy it's like a tablet maybe
they have more more material for the heat to dissipate through uh we also
have a 10 core GPU now yeah two more
cores two more cores and that was one of the big things they
they talked about at the presentation they were like okay big big
thing that is going to make the performance jump here is graphics yeah they really wanted to talk about
gaming oh you want to go to there i think the issue with gaming is not about
you know metal three needing you know whatever upscaling and it's maybe more
about like the structural situation of you know how the app store works right
the relationship with the developers who make the game and like whether developers want to go through the
trouble of like optimizing their games for this new chip for metal yeah yeah
and using apple's you know development you know hardware whatever they call it
they announced two developers developing games for uh macOS which is no man's
sky's gonna come and resident evil uh
the village which are like you know big time not games to really shake a no but
they've been out for a while is that even a proper term to use there shake a
stick it's not games to dismiss because no man's sky i think like
if you haven't really paid attention no man's sky has turned into
one of like the coolest best games out there right now yeah but i also have it
for my ps4 so like yeah yeah i already bought it yeah
everyone you can play it anywhere else it's not like a super super demanding game and even the footage they were
showing of resident evil village they were like look how smoothly this is running i'm like it looks kind of
yeah those games will be fine and fun for people who want to play them on
their mac but it's just gonna be a long
difficult slog for that too i want to move on to the things that i really want
to talk about it's your it's your show i talked about all the things i want to
talk about every night video so oh so just watch that so let's just jump to
the thing that like blew my mind okay okay
let's get a visual of this up here that is crazy so now on ipad os 16
you'll be able to not only resize Windows on ipad like before you could
snap them to one side and do like a split view and you can you can change
the proportion of what app you see or whatever but now you have floating
Windows in ipad os uh the new stage manager
feature which is also on macOS which has this kind of like sidebar uh with
app previews which i also think is kind of cool i mean it's basically like the
Windows taskbar but with the app preview is always open so you
can kind of see it like which i really like and not only that but now when you
connect an ipad to an external monitor with ipad os 16 it will you actually
extend your desktop this was jonathan
when i i did i made some ipad videos i've done it too i haven't done it for a
while when apple first started doing this whole like ipad it's a desktop class
machine you can use it for pros can use it
i i made these videos and i was like okay really though and i used it as my
personal computer for a while i edited a video on it i like i was like okay
there's promise here there's a lot of problems but apple has steadily added
stuff it seems like they kind of took a break for a while and now
they're like we're back baby the ipad is 100 just a
laptop now well it is it's not running macOS but
like look at this yeah yes you take your ipad you plug it into your like they
played at this before you could plug in your ipad to a larger monitor but it was
like only certain apps supported a
you know a specific external video yeah
otherwise it was just well not only there was a lumafusion would allow you
to uh have a different view on the monitor than you had on your ipad yeah
yeah but when as a default it was just mirror your
screen that's right yeah with these stupid bezels on the side if it's a 16x9
monitor any monitor this is just i mean this is blowing my mind i'm pretty
passionate about the idea of the ipad kind of being a touch first portable
device and the ipad has a small screen and so that just brings with it certain
uh limitations that just need to be acknowledged and accepted so you know
the stage manager window mode i don't i'm not convinced that's going to be
that great on you know an ipad air 10 inch ipad air 11 inch ipad pro
definitely not an ipad oh well maybe that yeah not a now the bigger ipad it
definitely helps make the bigger ipad a lot more useful yeah um in in that sort
of computer desktop style ergonomic orientation and then it make
it's further useful when you plug into an external monitor i mean it really
does make the ipad an option as a sole
computer for some people who want maybe do still want to set it up as at a desk
so like i don't want to say like oh this isn't great because also you can
still use your ipad traditionally you don't have to grab the little thing in the corner to make your your your apps
into Windows you can just right let them you can use the ipad like an ipad really
easily just as before right this is sort of another layer added on to kind of
bring bring the ipad to the kind of the next step forward and i think that's
actually pretty good i'm curious about the stage manager stuff on the side and how you're going to be able like what if
you cover it and how that's all going to work but well yeah i don't i mean it
okay it looks here like you could kind of can come and cover it but yeah uh i
mean you want to grab it you want to like kind of like shift it over it probably won't let you go all the way
for me coming at those ipad videos i was excited about the possibility of the
ipad uh being like you know having the
capability to act like a laptop if you wanted it to and also having the
capability to like okay now i'm gonna take it off if it's dock and like walk
around with it with a pencil or whatever and just use it like that if i want to
right i loved seeing the idea of a tablet and the idea of a laptop just
kind of like smashing together into something that wasn't ugly and janky to
use you know right right and it has kind of been janky to use because it hasn't
had this capability yet and now it does um but i hear what you're saying i
talked about this in one of my ipad videos where it's like maybe it was a mistake to even try to do
this maybe we should have just maybe apple should have leaned even further into okay we're gonna make a pro tablet
that you only use as a tablet don't try to use it as a laptop yeah we're gonna
optimize all the touch gestures we're gonna optimize everything like for that
experience not try to like smash it into a laptop situation it's really there's a there's
a convergence that's extremely difficult to find the line and make sure you don't
cross it in the wrong way and and try and make it work as well and so like
for instance when the magic keyboard came out like when i or not also when
you know mouse support came out in the ipad os i i kind of saw the way they did the
mouse and it was very clear to me that they were not making it like a precise
pointer that you find on desktop
yeah especially when the first implementation of it which was just that big yes that
was black circle yeah but so they they worked they worked with it to like take
the advantage of the some advantages of how what you can do with the mouse
and but also maintain the limitations of what you can only do with a finger on on
the software and so that i kind of appreciated that um and so i think
that's sort of what the stage manager experience
is is also just still respecting the limitations that a
touch interface device brings and not trying to push it too far away from that
core right inner interaction well i will say that like okay so while stage
manager is more like is very like explicitly like this is acting like a
laptop now there are other elements that they
announced uh during wwc about ipad os 16
that are you know may be more in alignment with what you're
talking about as like okay we're going to keep it a uh touch first device a touch first
device but make it better you know we have this new reference mode uh which i
don't i don't know how useful that'll be i'm not like a colorist but apparently
this is useful for color things because
the ipads do generally have pretty good color reproduction oh yeah i mean
it might as well like you have a really really great screen and then to
not be able to use it for something like video workflow like
might as well right and then you don't have to have like seven monitors on your desk we have uh display scaling mode
which makes you know people just gives more customization options for people
which is always good to some degree that's also i would i would interpret
that to be to make stage manager more useful on the smaller ipad screen so
you're making the interface yes those kind of go hand in hand yeah yeah
i think it's really just you know i i think it has always like
even when i'm using an ipad yeah a little bit just by itself sometimes i'm
like i want to zoom out a little bit i want to zoom in yeah
uh there was also i don't see it here but there's virtual memory swapping oh
yeah i know that's nice that's something when they announced they went wow and
then kept forgetting about i think that's a big deal actually if
you have too much in your RAM then it'll put some stuff that you're not using
into your SSD um temporarily just to be there so you can
reference it still okay so it basically means that you could have Windows open
because the way ipad os had been dealing with RAM before was it would just flush
if an app you hadn't used a while would just get flushed from your memory
and then when you go back you'd have to reload it oh my gosh yes so it's so annoying right but and that's
iOS and ipad that's because it didn't they never had swap in ipad air so this
will be this will be a big deal in just making the ipad feel less annoying
sometimes to use but it has lots of RAM now but um yeah but also they have to do this
for a windowing mode because you can't just hide
the app that's gonna get flushed away the app preview is always there on the
side or or it's you leave the Windows up and it's just still running in the
background so they had to implement stage manager and the windowing they had
to also implement swap memory i don't see i always thought i always just thought that was because um you know
they they did that killing apps in the background thing because iphones and
ipads can get away with having lesser well that's the reason why they
can get away with not having very much memory because they're so good at
managing the background stuff that then being good at managing the background
was you have to re you have to reload this app and you're no longer in the place you were in where you on on the
feed yeah yeah exactly scroll all the way down again
oh you know what i was wrong what were you wrong about the thing i was most
excited about oh from yesterday's announcement
tell me show us the weather oh there's a weather app for ipad now ipad didn't have a
weather app before and now it has it now it has a weather i know i actually was
really excited everyone's freaking people are rioting in the streets
because they're so happy but there's still no calculator
okay moving on from ipad i think right yeah oh there there was something about
uh collaboration free form that's this like shared browsing thing is kind of
cool tab groups but like everyone has to have an apple device right yeah you know
like there were a lot of these things collaboration and share play and all
that sort of stuff that like it was very much for like remote work
and the pandemic and i could all i could think of it was like the controversy
apple was having i don't know a month ago where their employees were like we don't want to go back to the office yeah
and then so then apple's making these features to make remote work
you know more more convenient uh should we talk about iOS oh and also about ipad
os they're they're the it was cool to see them talking well they've talked
about desktop class apps a lot in the past but now they're like oh there's an
API so now you can make your app
i'm still a little confused about what that means i think i have to investigate that i think i think they're like making
it easier for developers to incorporate like things that you would naturally
expect to have in a desktop app like you know native renaming undo find and
replace customizable toolbars yeah yeah yeah whereas before it's like you get
the app and that's kind of what the app is and now there's probably going to be more customization and stuff i will just
say this ipad os has finally earned its name with this release i think that's
probably would be the best way to sum it up it's super big of you to say that
it's earned its name and i i think that's i think that's a lot of i think now we're seeing the ipad become its own
thing and i think that's a good thing and even when i've been doing videos about ipad i've been talking to people
and they're like yeah i use ipad as my main computer now like nicole really
yeah my whole video is like she uses her she got an ipad pro a couple years ago
she didn't see that much not not for editing no not fred
but she involves an editor she has things she does on it you know
crafty things workflow she's developed these workflows to make it work but she
she switched to using the ipad as her personal computer at home i mean and so
i think this will just help people who who are already in that process and um
you know the power to them the thing that will always keep me back from like
getting super super truly excited about the ipad because like it's cool for me
it's cool to see things products change like this and evolve yeah but the thing
that will always keep me back from being like oh this amazing product that apple
has made is the fact that they're just so freaking expensive for what they do
like you can get like in order to have a la uh an ipad wait if you're buying an
ipad to use it as a tablet sure you don't need to buy any accessories maybe
like especially the smaller ones you know buy an ipad mini buy the ipad uh
whatever it is ninth gen or whatever it is the base model yeah um but if you
want to use an ipad pro or an ipad air as your
computer you're also going to be wanting to buy the keyboard attachment and maybe
some other things and at that point now you're looking at
like sixteen hundred twenty two thousand dollars it's the same price if you were
to get a samsung with the same sort of performance and accessories
yeah sure i guess it's more about um tablets in general i guess if you wanna
use a tablet as your main computer you're paying a premium for the
privilege of like trying out this cutting edge form factor that is
actually not very cutting edge has been around for a long time you know what i mean
i'm upset about it but but now what are you less upset now that the ipad is more
capable so it's actually coming up to its price point i think it's just like
i'm thankful for the people with a lot of money
who will go and buy these products so that
apple keeps you know fiddling around and innovating okay i want to talk about iOS
because we've basically talked about most of the other stuff car plays new
there's going to be new uis for carplay blah blah blah i'm so deeply watch watch
os they've got this drug scanning thing now
yeah which is interesting but also scary because then you're sending your
prescription information into the cloud protect your privacy yeah and they also
scan your photos for child stuff right i
guess they're still doing that and they also apple announced at wwc dc everyone
was so excited about it they announced that they invented a new smart home standard
in collaboration with blah blah blah other countries blah blah blah we created a new standard matter i didn't
interpret that i didn't i didn't interpret that way because i knew that they didn't make matter but it kind of
sounded like that oh and i was like is there a joke here not
really the joke i made was there was some some
things they referenced that i was like aren't these features already in your operating system like maybe slightly
improved so for instance the when they talked about sports which
is a which was fascinating sports sports look at all the sports we care about um
the the person said literally said you know you can ask siri about sports
scores and i thought yes i remember that feature being announced 10 years ago
and then they're talking about this icloud photo library for families
and i thought doesn't icloud have like a photo album shared photo album feature
that also was announced 10 years ago yeah and also when they were talking
about all this stuff where it's like oh shoot uh choose who you share with and
like automatically here i got it here i automatically like upload uh photos to
shared libraries and stuff yeah um yeah i'm like this is
i mean google photos has this yeah this seems like basic stuff and i was like
what you didn't have this already yeah uh iOS
let's talk lock screen widgets we don't have much time i know we're gonna hurry
here's my thing it's great i love that you can change the font of the clock uh
they do this cool thing where they figure out what the subject of your picture is and they can hide the clock a
little bit behind you know a person's head or something yeah that's kind of cool that's and that's part of the whole
machine learning stuff they've been adding to iOS which we could get into if we really wanted to but basically the
widgets are like watch complications uh is what kind of was my take on them
and then notifications are now kind of this like stacky thing on the bottom
they don't take yeah so it can do this thing where it like
does a portrait mode thing i saw quinn nelson posting uh some some examples
yeah the machine learning's pretty neat like i've i've been curious we haven't
talked much about the hardware of the neural engine within apple silicon and
it's been added to you know a series chips for a couple years now um and it
was always there and they said it can do stuff but we
never really knew what it can do and clearly apple is sort of leading to
leading up to now this sort of thing so it's really interesting to see how this
sort of processing will
make will be able to be used in kind of the real world so to speak and so right
now we're seeing it in terms of like scanning text from video and photos
which is now available and also now even figuring out what the subject is in an
image and taking that out which i think is really great i'm also curious in terms of the neural
engines zooming out to maybe the mac to see how developers are able to access
that and take advantage of that you want to see neural engine stuff being used on
maps like in photoshop like if you could if if the macOS or sorry iOS operating
system can take the subject out of the photo like wouldn't that be that then
you open up photoshop and it's this big faff to do the same thing like wouldn't
it be nice of that you know that hardware accelerates photoshop and so
adobe sense yeah it makes sense so adobe has to figure out how they're gonna and
apple has to make sure the API is there so that um people can take advantage of
it i just don't know where we're at with that i don't think there's anything else i mean obviously
we didn't talk about absolutely everything that they announced but you know you can't there's too much this is
why i want to go back to live stage stuff so that they are a little more
judicious about what they what they choose to show us your iphone could be a
webcam now yeah sorry that was the other big thing i wanted to say which is kind
of sending mail a dream i'm curious what sort of stands for
people are going to get and what that's going to do to like the hinge sort of
situation having all that weight on the top um i mean you're not going to have it on
there all the time it will make a difference like but it'll
be convenient it needs to be like easy to put on and stuff like that so i'm curious how that that workflow is gonna
work um they have this thing where they're they're really taking all the cameras of
the of the iphone and doing like a desk mode camera view from the ultra wide and
some crazy and also center stage with your iphone camera so like yeah really
that was cool to see really really going above and beyond i think
yeah i mean honestly webcams have really come a long way
fueled by the pandemic probably where people were like had to sit in front of
these things for hours yeah and uh google has this now in meat and uh
various other chat apps have it where like there are now like virtual lighting
effects where yeah whatever it can like dim the background
and brighten you up and yeah yeah which you can do with this this uh iphone is
webcam so being able to use the like really great camera on your phone as a
webcam just in an easy way i think that's really handy but it'll it's
you'll have to buy a mount and that'll be a bit of a bit annoying oh i forgot
my other favorite thing from from the this is this is my actually favorite
thing from wwdc it was
the dictation that the keyboard stays open when dictation was also announced
at iOS 6 in 2012. yeah but i just i saw this and i was
like what are you talking about this wasn't a thing already
like when you use dictation on an iphone the keyboard just goes away it's even
worse than that sometimes you accidentally hit the dictation button when you're just like fiddling with your
phone and then it goes bing and you don't have the keyboard and you have to like you have to wait for it to load up
and then you have to hit the done so it doesn't that was so funny to me and he's
like and now i can just seamlessly switch between voice to text and if oh i
made a mistake i'll just fix it with my keyboard i'm like this is it's 20 22.
it's a long time coming back this is crazy anyways so that's basically it yeah uh
that's a lot it's you have to go to a shoot yeah where i
actually am going to be comparing the ipad to an Android tablet oh well which Android tablet samsung
galaxy tab s8 samsung when it comes to the new one yeah when it comes to um
tablet samsung is just the only Android tablet essentially i made i did the
ShortCircuit for the essay yeah everyone got messages yeah they got mad
at me because i forgot about dex but honestly i
no one talks about decks you know can you really blame me and like i wish i
did because uh all the people telling me to check it out was i was like you're
right dex is really cool like it's basically like it puts ipad to shame
i've i've used decks in the past on some like phones like it's been years but uh
i just thought it was really cool how it's like okay this is Android are you talking about like dex onto an external
mod or dex was on the screen i didn't know that you could do decks
without an external monitor right right so i definitely wish i could have tried
that out but like the fact that samsung has had this feature and they've kept
supporting it and i guess making it better because there are people who actually care about it yeah um
uh in the background for a while is really cool like i think Android has the
capability to to serve as a desktop that wasn't pulled over what's that it wasn't
bowled over well you're you're never bowled over by anything no i guess i'm
going to imagine i'm such a curmudgeon by the by no jobites
jobsites no no no that's not
i'll make a big faff about Android all the time that's fab
faffy man okay you have to go to a shoot and yes i do and i don't care about it
you have to edit this uh i don't have to oh i added the last one
but hoffman will do this one love you love you huffman okay thanks for watching guys we're gonna do more talk
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