Connected

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00:00:07 ◼   ► From Relay FM, this is Connected, episode number 42. Today's show is brought to you by

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00:00:18 ◼   ► hover, simplified domain management and OmniFocus. Now on the Apple Watch.

00:00:23 ◼   ► My name is Myke Hurley and I'm joined by Mr. Stephen Hackett. Hello Stephen Hackett.

00:00:29 ◼   ► Hello Michael Hurley. How are you? I'm doing well. I should start the show with a thank you

00:00:36 ◼   ► to my wife. It is our wedding anniversary and I am here recording a podcast with you instead of

00:00:42 ◼   ► on a date with her. So she gets a high five from the connected nation, the international connected

00:00:48 ◼   ► fan base. Thank you, Ms Hackett. Yes, but we're without Federico this week. No, yes,

00:00:56 ◼   ► We should have mentioned that as well. We do have no Federica. It's just just me and Stephen

00:01:00 ◼   ► However, we do have another accent joining us a little bit later on Federica's on the beach for a little bit of a holiday. So

00:01:06 ◼   ► He's having fun fun in the Sun as the kids say I think it's was it Republic Day or something

00:01:13 ◼   ► Yes, it's when Italy won its independence from the British. I don't think that is I

00:01:19 ◼   ► Don't think that's how it works

00:01:22 ◼   ► Like listen, you know if we want to start talking about empires you want to look at the Roman Empire and yeah

00:01:27 ◼   ► We can go down that whole route if you want to yeah, really everybody is

00:01:30 ◼   ► Gaining their freedom from Federico's people

00:01:33 ◼   ► So we're gonna do some some follow-up so a

00:01:42 ◼   ► Friend of the I'm gonna say friend of the network because I can do that

00:01:47 ◼   ► friend of the network

00:01:50 ◼   ► You say don't mm-hmm

00:01:52 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:01:53 ◼   ► - Jamie Phelps, JXPX777.

00:01:56 ◼   ► - 11.38.

00:01:57 ◼   ► - That's a different movie.

00:01:59 ◼   ► Wrote on his web blog about his Sony Ericsson T637.

00:02:05 ◼   ► - Oh, look at that bad boy.

00:02:08 ◼   ► - Yeah, I remember, do you remember these phones?

00:02:11 ◼   ► They were awesome.

00:02:12 ◼   ► A friend of mine had one and I was super jealous.

00:02:15 ◼   ► So he writes on his blog about us talking

00:02:18 ◼   ► about someone else's idea of calendar based

00:02:21 ◼   ► not disturb. So if you remember this from a couple weeks ago the the general idea

00:02:25 ◼   ► is that if I'm in a meeting my phone should know that because of a calendar

00:02:29 ◼   ► invite and it should put itself and do not disturb you know if I set it up to do so.

00:02:32 ◼   ► And turns out these Sony Ericsson phones did this way back in the day so not

00:02:40 ◼   ► necessarily a new idea but I still think it's a really good idea. What do you

00:02:46 ◼   ► think? Do you still want this? I do still want that idea. I used to have a phone

00:02:51 ◼   ► that was kind of like this. I had like a Sony Ericsson Walkman phone. It was my

00:02:57 ◼   ► last phone before I got an iPhone, before the iPhone came out, and it was black and

00:03:02 ◼   ► orange and it had the... I don't know how... I don't know why they called it a Walkman

00:03:07 ◼   ► phone. You could put music on it, like you could put music on basically any phone

00:03:10 ◼   ► at that point. Right, the rocker kind of brought that into being a

00:03:15 ◼   ► little bit. Well, we had more... we had phones here that could do that stuff before

00:03:18 ◼   ► that was just you could plug that thing into iTunes like that's right there was

00:03:23 ◼   ► like I had some Sony software that I could basically put music onto my onto

00:03:29 ◼   ► my Sony Walkman phone I used to do it had radio on it and stuff as well you

00:03:33 ◼   ► know it was pretty cool if if people want to see a link to jxpx777's

00:03:40 ◼   ► blog post where could they go Myke oh they could go to relay.fm/connected/42

00:03:47 ◼   ► The sound you heard was Myke scrolling back to the top of the document to see

00:03:51 ◼   ► what episode number this is. It was actually, I swiped to the left with a

00:03:57 ◼   ► four finger gesture to go back to the CMS to see it in big bold text. Nice

00:04:02 ◼   ► that's a life hack that only really a handful of us can do. So we have some

00:04:09 ◼   ► we have some nose tapping follow-up and like the browser history and like many

00:04:15 ◼   ► other things over the three years of us doing a show together I am implementing

00:04:21 ◼   ► a end of nose tapping follow-up I am instigating the reincarnation of the

00:04:27 ◼   ► nose-dipping follow-up now so short-lived so Peter wrote in and and

00:04:34 ◼   ► Peter apparently lives where does he say in Michigan I think so Michigan is in

00:04:38 ◼   ► the very north part of the country where it touches Canada it's very cold they

00:04:43 ◼   ► have like I don't know like moose walking around lots of snow and ice I'm

00:04:49 ◼   ► very unlike the weather we have here that's hot very like the weather that

00:04:53 ◼   ► you have in London which is I think just wet all the time so Peter writes in to

00:04:58 ◼   ► say I've been nose tapping on the iPhone since day one and so is everyone around

00:05:03 ◼   ► me because when you're outside during I love this eternal Michigan winter you

00:05:08 ◼   ► have to keep your gloves on it's not new with the Apple watch and it's not weird

00:05:11 ◼   ► and he said he was frustrated with us for not thinking about this and

00:05:15 ◼   ► I would like to apologize to the people of Michigan and really all winter states

00:05:19 ◼   ► But uh you know if it's 10 degrees out like he says it is then I think I would probably nose tap too if it

00:05:26 ◼   ► Came down to it better than than taking a glove off to take care of something something simple I suppose

00:05:31 ◼   ► So I think Myke I think what you're gonna need to do is

00:05:35 ◼   ► We're gonna need to put one of us in like some sort of large

00:05:38 ◼   ► Like a meat freezer and see if you're more prone to nose tap under cold conditions

00:05:43 ◼   ► I will notice half under all conditions my friend

00:05:48 ◼   ► Well your conditions we got to find somebody who hasn't nose tapped and I admitted to it last week again like Peter

00:05:56 ◼   ► Under circumstances that were not normal. You're just doing it walking around like a normal human being I do at home

00:06:02 ◼   ► well, I mean

00:06:06 ◼   ► Privacy of your home. I know it's one thing. Have you done it in public you've done in public? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah

00:06:11 ◼   ► It's like I talked to my watch in public

00:06:14 ◼   ► Yeah, I can't

00:06:17 ◼   ► I don't go crazy with it. But like I will I will whisper the occasional thing, you know

00:06:22 ◼   ► Like replied to a text message or something. I'll totally do that

00:06:25 ◼   ► Yeah, I do wish

00:06:29 ◼   ► I do wish Siri could talk back or at least it could be an option for it to talk back

00:06:34 ◼   ► So, you know, if you do see on your watch, it just gives you text back and it's weird not hearing the device

00:06:40 ◼   ► Respond to you. Have you found that sort of strange or off-putting?

00:06:43 ◼   ► Yeah, especially when it gives me some sort of funny response

00:06:48 ◼   ► Yeah, you're just reading it. It's like yeah, it's like it's not funny when you're not delivering it

00:06:53 ◼   ► Like I know there's not an awful lot of comedic delivery

00:06:56 ◼   ► From Siri, but I don't know if just feels weird to just be reading jokes back from the computer robot

00:07:03 ◼   ► I don't know. Robot or not huh? Yeah that's a different network. Yeah so thank you Peter

00:07:11 ◼   ► for writing in. We wish you all the best and you know maybe maybe global warming will take

00:07:19 ◼   ► care of you. So that's all my follow Myke. It's short and sweet this week. On that happy

00:07:26 ◼   ► note should we take our first break for this week? That'd be great. This week's episode

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00:09:50 ◼   ► So we have a little bit of connected QA as topic zero. So you want to

00:09:58 ◼   ► tackle this first one? Because I don't have a good answer for the first one.

00:10:03 ◼   ► Neither do I. So this is from @zavaloth on Twitter. If computers didn't exist,

00:10:08 ◼   ► what would you guys do for a living? I guess now right if you ask me right now

00:10:14 ◼   ► I'd probably try and get into radio. Yeah I mean radio pre-exists to computers so

00:10:21 ◼   ► I think intellectually your answer works. I think that's probably what

00:10:25 ◼   ► I'd go for. Other than that I would I don't know maybe theater or something

00:10:32 ◼   ► now like I've never I've never been an actor of any kind but I figured now I'm

00:10:38 ◼   ► I'm too used to doing things that entertainment, you know?

00:10:43 ◼   ► I'm too used to creating entertainment,

00:10:44 ◼   ► so I'd probably have to try and create something like that

00:10:47 ◼   ► again to be creative, and that's probably the only way

00:10:52 ◼   ► I could do something like that, I think.

00:10:53 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's hard intellectually,

00:10:55 ◼   ► because you're saying that knowing what you do now,

00:10:57 ◼   ► but the question doesn't specify,

00:10:59 ◼   ► do computers suddenly go away?

00:11:01 ◼   ► And so now you're like, oh, I gotta find something else

00:11:03 ◼   ► to do, or like, who you are has been shaped

00:11:06 ◼   ► by the fact that you grew up with technology,

00:11:08 ◼   ► So it's hard to, it's a very tricky question.

00:11:11 ◼   ► Very tricky.

00:11:13 ◼   ► My best answer is something with my hands.

00:11:15 ◼   ► So like thoughts I had was like a bicycle building,

00:11:18 ◼   ► a repair.

00:11:19 ◼   ► - You could play a trumpet.

00:11:21 ◼   ► - I could play a trumpet.

00:11:22 ◼   ► I'm not very musical.

00:11:23 ◼   ► But like I, again, like to have computers disappear

00:11:29 ◼   ► to they never exist, like I really enjoyed my time

00:11:33 ◼   ► as like a hardware technician.

00:11:34 ◼   ► And so I think doing something with my hands,

00:11:36 ◼   ► taking things apart, putting them back together,

00:11:37 ◼   ► sort of repair or construction I think would be would get me by just fine it's

00:11:45 ◼   ► good it's a good question I like that there was intellectual ambiguity in it

00:11:49 ◼   ► it's a good one okay and the next question comes from I'm gonna say eaten

00:11:55 ◼   ► eaten Schulman on Twitter what watch app do you wish existed native ones really

00:12:06 ◼   ► Is that the best you have for us?

00:12:07 ◼   ► - I really do.

00:12:08 ◼   ► So I've written about watch faces and glances on 512.

00:12:13 ◼   ► I haven't written about the apps yet,

00:12:14 ◼   ► but I'm really only using like three of them.

00:12:16 ◼   ► And there's not one that like,

00:12:18 ◼   ► I really wish I had that I don't have.

00:12:20 ◼   ► I just, to me, the watch does what it does and that's fine,

00:12:25 ◼   ► but there's not like a gaping hole in my watch workflow.

00:12:28 ◼   ► I don't know. What about you?

00:12:30 ◼   ► - My biggest one is Google apps,

00:12:32 ◼   ► because I like to use Google apps on my phone,

00:12:34 ◼   ► because I like to receive transit directions.

00:12:37 ◼   ► That's my main thing.

00:12:38 ◼   ► I've been hearing a lot of people

00:12:38 ◼   ► talk about Apple Maps recently.

00:12:40 ◼   ► Fundamentally, the main reason I cannot use Apple Maps

00:12:43 ◼   ► is because I need transit directions.

00:12:46 ◼   ► And Google, and the reason that I like to use one app

00:12:49 ◼   ► for walking and transit directions

00:12:52 ◼   ► is because I like to know how long it's gonna take me

00:12:54 ◼   ► to get from one place to another.

00:12:55 ◼   ► Like, I could go to a different app,

00:12:57 ◼   ► and I've tried other apps like CityMapper and stuff,

00:12:59 ◼   ► I don't like them.

00:13:00 ◼   ► I like Google Maps, it's very easy.

00:13:02 ◼   ► and it also has a better database and stuff. I just like going to Google Maps and doing all of that.

00:13:07 ◼   ► At the moment, then when I get off the train or whatever and then I want to walk places,

00:13:13 ◼   ► I go to Apple Maps and enter the location in Apple Maps because I love, love the Apple Maps

00:13:21 ◼   ► integration on the Apple Watch. I think it might be my favorite feature. Like the tapping stuff.

00:13:25 ◼   ► Tapping the beep beep beep beep beep.

00:13:28 ◼   ► It's so good man. It's just so good.

00:13:30 ◼   ► Yeah, I like it too.

00:13:32 ◼   ► because my main thing is like I still haven't 100% worked out what the taps mean but like it just

00:13:37 ◼   ► makes me look at my like I'm basically no oh I better look at my wrist you know and I really

00:13:43 ◼   ► really love it I've been whenever I've been walking around London a few times over the last

00:13:46 ◼   ► couple of weeks like just going to places I've never been before or like just taking some

00:13:51 ◼   ► directions that I've never taken before and the Apple watch has just made it so easy because I

00:13:56 ◼   ► always hated like walking around the streets with my phone out like I just don't like that

00:14:01 ◼   ► Especially when you have a big phone as well,

00:14:04 ◼   ► it's like, come with something, keep taking it

00:14:05 ◼   ► out of your pocket, put it away, keep that pocket put away.

00:14:07 ◼   ► - Myke was wrong.

00:14:07 ◼   ► - It's frustrating.

00:14:08 ◼   ► Nope, Myke was right because now I have the best

00:14:10 ◼   ► of both worlds.

00:14:11 ◼   ► - Yeah, you hear this, this is my six plus.

00:14:14 ◼   ► That's right.

00:14:15 ◼   ► - So I'm really, I really, really love it,

00:14:18 ◼   ► but I would like to see Google Maps,

00:14:19 ◼   ► but I don't think we'll get that until the native SDK

00:14:22 ◼   ► because it's not gonna be good enough.

00:14:25 ◼   ► - I think there's, I think that's a good example,

00:14:28 ◼   ► maybe the best example I can think of,

00:14:30 ◼   ► an app that maybe they're waiting until native apps. Maybe they're saying hey, you know what watch kit

00:14:35 ◼   ► We can't do what we want to do. So we're just gonna

00:14:37 ◼   ► Gonna sit it out

00:14:39 ◼   ► but I do like the Apple Maps watch integration I

00:14:42 ◼   ► drive a good bit during the week and some place, you know sometimes to

00:14:46 ◼   ► To places that I don't know where they are

00:14:49 ◼   ► so, you know use directions around town and and just the tapping and like be able to

00:14:52 ◼   ► Just glance at my watch instead of like fishing my phone out of the cup holder

00:14:56 ◼   ► To see where my turn is and that sort of thing is really great. I know not everybody

00:15:00 ◼   ► Likes it but some people on Twitter talking about that. But I really do like that it that it mirrors what's on the phone and

00:15:08 ◼   ► You know, there's rumors that I was 9 will bring transit directions. Maybe maybe your answer will be

00:15:14 ◼   ► You know will come in a different form than you expect

00:15:18 ◼   ► Yeah, and I'm I have heard that but I reserve judgment

00:15:25 ◼   ► because I'm just I'm just not sure about it yet because Apple Maps walking

00:15:32 ◼   ► directions can still be super wonky so I don't know how I feel about transit

00:15:37 ◼   ► especially because we have complex transit here because we have lots of it

00:15:41 ◼   ► you know so we have buses and trains and tubes and like National Rail over ground

00:15:47 ◼   ► and transit has to be exactly right like yeah you can't mess that up that has to

00:15:50 ◼   ► be bang on and in theory you can make it exactly right because at least in the UK

00:15:54 ◼   ► Transport for London holds all of that data and they can license it in one big

00:16:00 ◼   ► chunk. So we should actually be one of the easier places I think to get a lot

00:16:04 ◼   ► of that especially in London then maybe some other cities would be in the world

00:16:09 ◼   ► but that's what I expect anyway because I know people license it to make apps.

00:16:12 ◼   ► If that's a that's fair it'll be interesting to see what Apple does with

00:16:16 ◼   ► that and you know trains it's not really a big thing for me here but I could see

00:16:20 ◼   ► that being a really frustrating, you know, feature not to have if you if you depend

00:16:26 ◼   ► on it. So topic 0.5 is that our friends at Microsoft have made another

00:16:36 ◼   ► acquisition. They sure have. They bought Wunderlist. Yeah, which is a little

00:16:43 ◼   ► surprising to me initially but you know upon thinking about it it makes a lot of

00:16:46 ◼   ► since and Federica wrote about it I think today or yesterday about that they

00:16:50 ◼   ► acquired I see miss actually Vunderlist right not wonder list I just realized

00:16:55 ◼   ► you live closer Germany than I do yeah cuz the company's name is six

00:16:58 ◼   ► Wunderkinde because you know W's are pronounced that way in Germany yeah so I

00:17:04 ◼   ► assumed it's it's Wunderlist and we've been calling it Wunderlist this whole

00:17:08 ◼   ► time so I apologize to six Wunderkinde and now Microsoft this is like

00:17:15 ◼   ► - Microsoft.

00:17:15 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:17:18 ◼   ► - Get out, get out now.

00:17:20 ◼   ► - You're gonna be alone.

00:17:21 ◼   ► - Fine, I will take it.

00:17:23 ◼   ► I can do it. - It's monologue.

00:17:25 ◼   ► - I think this is genius.

00:17:27 ◼   ► This is a genius move.

00:17:29 ◼   ► This is like, Microsoft right now

00:17:32 ◼   ► doing some really exciting stuff.

00:17:33 ◼   ► They are strengthening their cross platform strategy.

00:17:36 ◼   ► They are really digging deep on like making

00:17:39 ◼   ► the Office ecosystem, I guess it would be, kind of,

00:17:43 ◼   ► like stronger and stronger.

00:17:44 ◼   ► 'Cause I mean, they bought a Compley

00:17:46 ◼   ► and turned that into an office product effectively,

00:17:48 ◼   ► they turned it into Outlook.

00:17:50 ◼   ► But Sunrise is still Sunrise.

00:17:53 ◼   ► And it looks like at least for the time being,

00:17:56 ◼   ► Wunderlist is going to remain Wunderlist.

00:17:59 ◼   ► I'm going all in on that now.

00:18:00 ◼   ► And that makes sense, right?

00:18:03 ◼   ► Because a Compley didn't really have a brand behind it.

00:18:07 ◼   ► It was new and I don't think a lot of people really used it.

00:18:10 ◼   ► But these two, like Sunrise and Wunderlist, they do.

00:18:14 ◼   ► definitely do and plus there is less of a fit because Microsoft don't have a

00:18:19 ◼   ► office calendar app and an office task app so maybe in six months time they

00:18:24 ◼   ► will rebrand them with these new you know we'll get like Microsoft agenda and

00:18:29 ◼   ► Microsoft tasks you know as brands and they'll sit in the office suite but I

00:18:33 ◼   ► think this is genius they're acquiring smart young nimble companies that are

00:18:38 ◼   ► experimenting and doing exciting stuff rather than trying to build this stuff

00:18:41 ◼   ► internally. I think this is a genius move and it makes them stronger and stronger.

00:18:45 ◼   ► It makes them much more exciting and it's that you know they're buying

00:18:49 ◼   ► companies that have strong iOS presences, strong Android presences, so they don't

00:18:54 ◼   ► have to build three times. I just think this new Microsoft that they've

00:19:00 ◼   ► been like showing over the last few months, I just continue to be more and

00:19:04 ◼   ► more excited by it. I totally agree and I think you're right it helps round out

00:19:10 ◼   ► their sort of consumer stuff because they do have made me outlook and exchange

00:19:14 ◼   ► just calendaring but not the way sunrise does and you could do to-do list in

00:19:18 ◼   ► outlook and exchange but not the way that that Thunderless does so it's it's

00:19:22 ◼   ► them moving more to the consumer market you know there's been a lot of talk

00:19:25 ◼   ► about like Google's apps on iOS we're talking about that today but I think

00:19:30 ◼   ► Microsoft you know they're doing a lot again cross-platform you know going

00:19:34 ◼   ► looking outside their own OS's to bring services and applications

00:19:40 ◼   ► to a bigger market and that obviously makes a lot of sense because

00:19:44 ◼   ► Windows Phone is really little. But yeah I hope that they continue to

00:19:49 ◼   ► let these guys do good work. It's a great app. We named it our the best

00:19:52 ◼   ► shared to-do list on the suite setup I think last year. And so yeah really

00:19:58 ◼   ► happy for those guys and we'll keep an eye on it but I think

00:20:02 ◼   ► I think Microsoft can handle this and handle it well.

00:20:06 ◼   ► Good times.

00:20:07 ◼   ► - So yeah, this is one of those Wall Street Journal

00:20:11 ◼   ► reported stories that I think they said 100 million

00:20:13 ◼   ► or something, and then I put it in the document

00:20:16 ◼   ► and then before, in between me putting it in the document

00:20:19 ◼   ► and I was starting to show it from the list confirmed it,

00:20:21 ◼   ► or Six Month at Kinda confirmed it.

00:20:23 ◼   ► So congratulations to them.

00:20:25 ◼   ► Like, that's a lot of money.

00:20:27 ◼   ► (laughs)

00:20:29 ◼   ► That's a lot of money.

00:20:31 ◼   ► Would you sell to Microsoft for $100 million?

00:20:34 ◼   ► Me?

00:20:35 ◼   ► I mean, all I can sell is half of Relay and 5V pixels,

00:20:40 ◼   ► 100% of that.

00:20:41 ◼   ► I don't know if that's really in Microsoft's wheelhouse.

00:20:45 ◼   ► Well, I mean, if Microsoft would like

00:20:47 ◼   ► to give us $100 million, I think we would definitely

00:20:49 ◼   ► entertain the idea.

00:20:51 ◼   ► I think so.

00:20:51 ◼   ► I mean--

00:20:53 ◼   ► I would create a Microsoft podcast for $100 million.

00:20:58 ◼   ► I would sell out for $100 million.

00:21:00 ◼   ► I just want to put that on the table.

00:21:01 ◼   ► - Yeah, see now we're gonna get emails

00:21:02 ◼   ► from people who want a Microsoft podcast.

00:21:04 ◼   ► - Well, they can have one.

00:21:05 ◼   ► They just have to give me $100 million.

00:21:07 ◼   ► That is my price for a Microsoft podcast, $100 million.

00:21:12 ◼   ► - We should just move on.

00:21:14 ◼   ► - Move on to receiving $100 million?

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00:24:29 ◼   ► happy that we are now joined by Mr. Russell Ivanovich of Shifty Jelly,

00:24:33 ◼   ► developer of the award-winning pocket cast. Hi Russell, how are you?

00:24:37 ◼   ► Hi Myke, I'm just here fondling my new award. Yes, you're in San Francisco right

00:24:42 ◼   ► now, right? I am indeed. I'm finally almost in your time zone.

00:24:46 ◼   ► Well, I don't know if it works like that. I think you're about the same distance away.

00:24:52 ◼   ► You're closer to me. Damn it. I fly across the world to try and get closer to your time

00:24:56 ◼   ► zone and I just fail. You overshot it just a tad. So congratulations, if anybody doesn't

00:25:01 ◼   ► know, PocketCasts was awarded a material design award in the inaugural material design awards

00:25:08 ◼   ► at Google I/O. So congratulations. Why thank you, and if anyone doesn't know, probably

00:25:14 ◼   ► Chris and Phil really deserve the

00:25:16 ◼   ► Congratulations for that award. Although I did help just a tiny bit. Thanks. I'm gonna take someone to credit

00:25:22 ◼   ► Yeah, okay. It's it's all me. I don't know who anyone else works for a team. It's a team of one

00:25:29 ◼   ► It's well deserved. It's

00:25:31 ◼   ► Parkhouses is beautiful and I've been playing with Android a little bit recently and it's

00:25:36 ◼   ► It's kind of like my go-to app when I think about material design in my brain. So good job. Good job

00:25:44 ◼   ► Occupying my my mind space if you will. Oh, thank you

00:25:48 ◼   ► so

00:25:51 ◼   ► We thought we'd cover Google Photos today, so we have a course because we have to

00:25:56 ◼   ► Yes, because we are the photo management podcast. Well, I gotta stop you if you cover this and it shuts down

00:26:02 ◼   ► I'm holding you personally responsible

00:26:04 ◼   ► Curse if the curse can overcome Google Photos then

00:26:08 ◼   ► Then we're doing something very right or very wrong

00:26:12 ◼   ► So at Google I/O now last week

00:26:15 ◼   ► Google announced Google Photos which more or less and I want to get into this a little bit more or less is what Google Plus

00:26:22 ◼   ► did with photos, but now it's sort of unbundled uncoupled because I think the Google Plus brand is

00:26:28 ◼   ► not in great standing

00:26:30 ◼   ► So so kind of

00:26:34 ◼   ► High level what is what's Google doing in this in the space Russell?

00:26:40 ◼   ► Okay, so pre Google Photos you had something called Google+ Photos which like you say was

00:26:45 ◼   ► weirdly kind of embedded with the whole Google+ social network and I've been using that I

00:26:50 ◼   ► think for at least a year now just to, it does the auto upload thing, all your photos

00:26:54 ◼   ► go up, you know they're all there, it creates weird little stories out of them and does

00:26:58 ◼   ► animated gifs and stuff.

00:27:00 ◼   ► So I guess the new bit is they've broken it out into its own separate app and they've

00:27:05 ◼   ► They've added some really cool, I guess, I don't know what you call it, categorization

00:27:10 ◼   ► and it recognizes people, it recognizes places and it does all of this without you having

00:27:16 ◼   ► to lift a finger.

00:27:17 ◼   ► So I was one of those users that used to go into iPhoto and say, "Yes, this is me and

00:27:20 ◼   ► this is my wife and we went here and try and geotag on my photos and all that."

00:27:25 ◼   ► So this does all of that for you, which is just amazing.

00:27:30 ◼   ► Just I mean, we're going to jump around a little bit now because I have a question that

00:27:33 ◼   ► I've been meaning to ask someone and I can ask you.

00:27:36 ◼   ► I'm uploading photos to Google Photos

00:27:38 ◼   ► and I'll talk about that in a minute.

00:27:39 ◼   ► And it hasn't done any face detection though.

00:27:41 ◼   ► Do I need to do something?

00:27:43 ◼   ► - No, it's just magical.

00:27:44 ◼   ► So it doesn't know the names of the people.

00:27:47 ◼   ► So basically if I look at mine,

00:27:48 ◼   ► I see the people that I've taken the photos of most.

00:27:51 ◼   ► So my kids are number one and two.

00:27:53 ◼   ► And then there's myself and then there's my wife

00:27:55 ◼   ► and there's a few other people, you know,

00:27:56 ◼   ► I regularly stalk and take photos of like Philip.

00:28:00 ◼   ► And it doesn't know who those people are,

00:28:01 ◼   ► but it knows every single photo that they're in

00:28:03 ◼   ► and it just kind of auto-categorizes it.

00:28:05 ◼   ► So I'll give you a creepy example.

00:28:07 ◼   ► Someone was asking me for a photo of Philip the other day.

00:28:09 ◼   ► You know, they're like,

00:28:10 ◼   ► "Oh, we have to have a photo of Phil."

00:28:11 ◼   ► So I just went in there, I clicked on his face,

00:28:13 ◼   ► and it literally showed me every photo

00:28:15 ◼   ► that Philip's ever been in.

00:28:16 ◼   ► I could find the one I wanted and send that off.

00:28:19 ◼   ► - Where in the UI is that exactly?

00:28:21 ◼   ► - Yeah, this is the weird part.

00:28:23 ◼   ► So I couldn't find it for the first 30 minutes.

00:28:24 ◼   ► It's in the search button.

00:28:26 ◼   ► So the second you hit search, you get people,

00:28:28 ◼   ► I think you get places and you get categories,

00:28:30 ◼   ► then you can just free text search as well.

00:28:32 ◼   ► Yeah, I only have places and things.

00:28:34 ◼   ► Maybe it needs more data, I don't know,

00:28:35 ◼   ► but I don't know people yet.

00:28:36 ◼   ► But anyway, that's an aside that nobody else needs to hear.

00:28:39 ◼   ► So there is some limits to what you can put in, right?

00:28:44 ◼   ► 'Cause it's unlimited and limited, is my understanding.

00:28:47 ◼   ► It's kind of a bit peculiar in the way

00:28:49 ◼   ► that that's broken down.

00:28:51 ◼   ► Well, I guess if you use an iPhone 6 or a 6 Plus,

00:28:53 ◼   ► it's effectively unlimited.

00:28:55 ◼   ► You know, you have an eight megapixel camera

00:28:56 ◼   ► that is unlimited up to 16 megapixel,

00:28:59 ◼   ► I think 1080p is the video limit. So that's all the iPhone takes as well. So even someone like me who has

00:29:04 ◼   ► Wink wink does not just slightly better camera on my phone in the s6

00:29:08 ◼   ► It is it is honestly bad. We won't get into that today

00:29:12 ◼   ► This is not why we invited you onto this show, yeah, I got that in there didn't I? Thank you Samsung for my check later

00:29:21 ◼   ► No, so that takes 16 megapixels photos and it can take 4k video

00:29:25 ◼   ► So assuming you go the free route, it will actually down sample that 4K video down to

00:29:30 ◼   ► 1080p.

00:29:31 ◼   ► But I'm one of those people that pays, I think it's $12 a year to get, I want to say 100

00:29:36 ◼   ► gigabytes of storage.

00:29:37 ◼   ► So the cool thing about that, I'm hoping this still works the same way, is when you go over

00:29:41 ◼   ► those limits, that's the only thing that counts against your storage.

00:29:44 ◼   ► So I have about 120 gig worth of stuff in there, but I'm only being, I think, allocated

00:29:51 ◼   ► for about 50 of it.

00:29:52 ◼   ► Yeah, that makes sense to me now why, like what it says my allocation is seems way lower

00:29:59 ◼   ► than, that you've just made sense to me because my allocation is some really small number

00:30:03 ◼   ► but I know I have gigabytes of photos in there at the moment and it's like, you're like 500

00:30:07 ◼   ► megabytes.

00:30:08 ◼   ► I'm like, I don't understand what's happening here.

00:30:10 ◼   ► Yeah, so it's only the ones that go over that limit and those limits used to be, they used

00:30:14 ◼   ► to have the same thing, they were just far lower.

00:30:16 ◼   ► I think originally it was, I want to say 2048 pixels across and the videos were, I don't

00:30:21 ◼   ► I don't know, maybe 720p or something,

00:30:23 ◼   ► but they've upped both of those.

00:30:25 ◼   ► - So I decided that I was gonna kind of go in with this

00:30:30 ◼   ► and just upload some photos.

00:30:32 ◼   ► 'Cause I saw the presentation

00:30:33 ◼   ► and I thought it looked really interesting.

00:30:35 ◼   ► Because there isn't really anything about Apple's solution

00:30:39 ◼   ► that really made me wanna jump.

00:30:43 ◼   ► Like there just wasn't anything there for me

00:30:45 ◼   ► that I thought was compelling enough.

00:30:47 ◼   ► Like I could already get to my photos,

00:30:49 ◼   ► I have them on Dropbox.

00:30:50 ◼   ► I don't ever really look through them enough that that would be the main

00:30:54 ◼   ► reason because that kind of seems to be the main reason is you can have all of

00:30:57 ◼   ► your photos wherever you want them. I kind of have never really needed that.

00:31:01 ◼   ► It's never really been a massive thing for me. I always looked for other stuff

00:31:04 ◼   ► so like when I was using Everpix I liked the flashback features and some of

00:31:09 ◼   ► the categorization stuff that they did so it was fun to use that but my Dropbox

00:31:12 ◼   ► solution has done a pretty good job and you can get apps that can let you turn

00:31:16 ◼   ► Dropbox into like a like you know can get apps that put like a viewer in front

00:31:20 ◼   ► of Dropbox kind of thing that we've spoken about on the show before. But I saw the stuff

00:31:23 ◼   ► that Google was doing and I was like that looks really interesting to me. Like yeah

00:31:27 ◼   ► the ability to like search without there being any tagging and it finds things. So I was

00:31:31 ◼   ► like I want to give this a go. So I've pointed like a few thousand photos at it so far and

00:31:38 ◼   ► it's been sucking them up. The best way to do this I've found is to download this little

00:31:43 ◼   ► Mac uploader which you can get from the photos website and it just sits there. You just tell

00:31:49 ◼   ► what files, what folders you want it to suck in,

00:31:51 ◼   ► so I just pointed my Dropbox photos folder at it,

00:31:55 ◼   ► pulled out some that I didn't want.

00:31:56 ◼   ► And then it gives you this really weird dialogue

00:31:59 ◼   ► about duplication in Google Drive,

00:32:01 ◼   ► 'cause you can, Steven, you just found this, I think,

00:32:03 ◼   ► that you can sync them to your computer

00:32:05 ◼   ► via Google Drive, right?

00:32:07 ◼   ► - Sort of, so it doesn't,

00:32:10 ◼   ► so I did the same thing you did,

00:32:11 ◼   ► I pointed at a folder with subfolders of images,

00:32:14 ◼   ► and so you can go into Google Drive on the web

00:32:18 ◼   ► and there's like a ad as a folder type guy,

00:32:23 ◼   ► and so it'll syncs the photos back down,

00:32:25 ◼   ► but they're just, it's just a flat structure.

00:32:28 ◼   ► There's no organization or subfolders there.

00:32:32 ◼   ► So what I was thinking, or what I was kinda hoping

00:32:34 ◼   ► was it to be like Dropbox.

00:32:35 ◼   ► So I could have local directories,

00:32:37 ◼   ► I could have full res copies locally in my machine,

00:32:40 ◼   ► and that just sort of get mirrored in the cloud,

00:32:42 ◼   ► but it's not really the way it works.

00:32:43 ◼   ► And in hindsight, of course,

00:32:45 ◼   ► Google is very much a web first client second,

00:32:47 ◼   ► in many ways.

00:32:49 ◼   ► And so there's a sort of some of these edge cases

00:32:51 ◼   ► you have to be aware of if you want to use this

00:32:54 ◼   ► more like iCloud photo library.

00:32:59 ◼   ► It's not really quite the same thing.

00:33:01 ◼   ► - Yeah, it's definitely a little bit different to that.

00:33:04 ◼   ► I mean, what I generally do is just once a month,

00:33:08 ◼   ► I go to the Google takeout thing that they have

00:33:10 ◼   ► and I just download a full backup of all my photos

00:33:13 ◼   ► and then store that somewhere.

00:33:16 ◼   ► That's the top tip.

00:33:18 ◼   ► - That's the top tip.

00:33:19 ◼   ► It is a big download.

00:33:20 ◼   ► I mean, if you don't have good internet,

00:33:22 ◼   ► good luck getting that.

00:33:23 ◼   ► So I think I have, I wanna say 35,000 photos

00:33:26 ◼   ► in there at the moment.

00:33:27 ◼   ► And I think the thing that amazed me the most

00:33:29 ◼   ► is I could just search for anything.

00:33:30 ◼   ► I could say, show me pictures of the beach in 2012.

00:33:33 ◼   ► Show me where I was for this picture.

00:33:36 ◼   ► I did this funny one.

00:33:37 ◼   ► I searched for Sydney Harbour

00:33:38 ◼   ► and it found the Sydney Harbour Bridge

00:33:40 ◼   ► in a picture of a picture.

00:33:42 ◼   ► So I'd been to someone's house.

00:33:43 ◼   ► I'd taken a picture of some pictures

00:33:45 ◼   ► So they've taken it, it actually took, yeah, it's like, yeah, that's the Sydney Harbour

00:33:48 ◼   ► Bridge and it does some amazing stuff.

00:33:52 ◼   ► Just for a joke, I just search for pictures of sleeping, for example, and it shows you

00:33:55 ◼   ► people sleeping.

00:33:56 ◼   ► You know, pictures of babies, it shows you pictures of babies.

00:33:58 ◼   ► And this is all, you've got to remember in your photo library that you haven't spent

00:34:01 ◼   ► any time tagging.

00:34:02 ◼   ► So I didn't have to go through and say, you know, this is a picture of someone sleeping.

00:34:06 ◼   ► I searched for koala just for you guys as well, and that works as well.

00:34:09 ◼   ► Because in my backyard I have some koalas.

00:34:14 ◼   ► - Yeah, for someone who, I'm not gonna be moving

00:34:18 ◼   ► to this full time, but in thinking about it,

00:34:21 ◼   ► I sort of view it as, it could be a way

00:34:23 ◼   ► to have my photos backed up somewhere else

00:34:25 ◼   ► and give me a different way to get into them

00:34:27 ◼   ► where I could, again, easily search.

00:34:30 ◼   ► And I have folders and subfolders done by sort of event type

00:34:35 ◼   ► or it's kind of a mix of events and people

00:34:37 ◼   ► and this would give me a way to search sort of across

00:34:40 ◼   ► all of that stuff and the search really, I think,

00:34:43 ◼   ► is the most impressive thing about this.

00:34:45 ◼   ► Like you said, it's very natural search,

00:34:47 ◼   ► like, hey, you know, I went on vacation in 2008.

00:34:50 ◼   ► Like it knows when it was and it kind of knows where it is.

00:34:54 ◼   ► And it really is like,

00:34:57 ◼   ► this is how Google can flex its muscle

00:35:00 ◼   ► over anyone else in the industry, I think.

00:35:02 ◼   ► - Definitely, if you want to look at, you know,

00:35:04 ◼   ► what are the biggest differences between this

00:35:06 ◼   ► and, you know, iCloud photos,

00:35:07 ◼   ► it's definitely that search and categorization

00:35:10 ◼   ► that Google's able to do, you know,

00:35:11 ◼   ► on a massive scale on their servers.

00:35:12 ◼   ► So I'll give you another example.

00:35:14 ◼   ► I was doing just an interview with someone,

00:35:17 ◼   ► just over email, and they said,

00:35:19 ◼   ► can you give me a picture of your setup at work?

00:35:21 ◼   ► What does your desk look like?

00:35:22 ◼   ► So I just searched for computer monitor,

00:35:24 ◼   ► scrolled down, there's my monitor at work

00:35:26 ◼   ► with my Mac Pro next to it,

00:35:27 ◼   ► and I just sent the guy the picture.

00:35:29 ◼   ► Really handy.

00:35:30 ◼   ► - So this is the exact reason why I decided

00:35:33 ◼   ► I wanted to sign up for this,

00:35:35 ◼   ► 'cause I just think that that is so awesome.

00:35:37 ◼   ► And it doesn't get it right 100% of the time.

00:35:40 ◼   ► Sometimes I know there are things in there

00:35:41 ◼   ► it's not finding but my feeling about this is the fact that you can do any of it is awesome

00:35:46 ◼   ► and the longer I use this if I really do you know want to keep using it the better I know

00:35:51 ◼   ► it's going to get right just over time this stuff will improve but the I think the thing

00:35:57 ◼   ► that has that has impressed me the most right now is some uploading my photos and I get

00:36:01 ◼   ► a push notification every little while we've made a collage for you or we've made an animation

00:36:06 ◼   ► for you or we've made a collection for you and these are just these awesome things or

00:36:10 ◼   ► Or they take a photo and they're like "We've enhanced it" and they've just made it look

00:36:14 ◼   ► more artistic or they've corrected color or something.

00:36:19 ◼   ► Or they'll say "Hey, what about that time you went to San Francisco?" and it's like

00:36:22 ◼   ► showing me WWDC last year or it's showing me Atlanta and it picks up all the photos

00:36:27 ◼   ► and puts them in this little story and it breaks them up by day.

00:36:31 ◼   ► Or it takes a selection of images that were taken in quick succession and it turns them

00:36:36 ◼   ► into an animation.

00:36:37 ◼   ► And I know that this stuff has been around for a while, that like Auto Awesome I believe

00:36:41 ◼   ► it was called on Google Plus.

00:36:43 ◼   ► Yeah that's what it was.

00:36:45 ◼   ► It's so fantastic to I think to just get these little things that pop up every now and then.

00:36:49 ◼   ► And look I've had some weird ones, I've had ex girlfriends and stuff appear.

00:36:54 ◼   ► But it's like I'm not going to blame Google for that because they have no, they can't

00:36:58 ◼   ► know that.

00:36:59 ◼   ► So that's not an issue that I have.

00:37:01 ◼   ► Actually they probably do but they just don't want to let me know that they know.

00:37:06 ◼   ► Yeah they don't want to turn that on, they don't want to freak you out too much.

00:37:09 ◼   ► But I found the same thing, so I've had this for years now.

00:37:12 ◼   ► The best time honestly is when you go on a trip somewhere, like you were saying WWDC,

00:37:16 ◼   ► like I went to an island just off the coast called Kangaroo Island and it literally made

00:37:21 ◼   ► like a photo book of my journey which is something I used to love to get home and do like in

00:37:25 ◼   ► iPhoto and it did a really good job.

00:37:27 ◼   ► Yeah this is the thing that I'm most impressed with because it takes your photos and gives

00:37:31 ◼   ► you little presents.

00:37:32 ◼   ► Like, they give me little gifts every now and then.

00:37:36 ◼   ► And it's just nice, I like it.

00:37:38 ◼   ► It's something that, it just adds a bit of playfulness.

00:37:41 ◼   ► And this is part of my overall feeling about Google Photos,

00:37:46 ◼   ► especially where it is right now,

00:37:48 ◼   ► is this is not a professional,

00:37:52 ◼   ► like, this is not a pro user's tool, right?

00:37:55 ◼   ► Because the unlimited stuff is for lower quality stuff,

00:37:59 ◼   ► right, and/or they will take your photos

00:38:02 ◼   ► and they will down res them a little bit,

00:38:04 ◼   ► which I don't care about,

00:38:05 ◼   ► but I know that there are loads of people that will,

00:38:07 ◼   ► and that's fine.

00:38:08 ◼   ► And then when they take your photos,

00:38:09 ◼   ► they do fun things with them.

00:38:11 ◼   ► Like, this is a consumer tool,

00:38:13 ◼   ► and I am a consumer when it comes to photos.

00:38:15 ◼   ► All of my photos are taken on my iPhone.

00:38:17 ◼   ► Like, I'm totally happy with that.

00:38:19 ◼   ► That's where they live.

00:38:21 ◼   ► And I'm, the way that I've got it is,

00:38:23 ◼   ► at the moment, I'm still doing my automatic upload

00:38:26 ◼   ► from my phone to Dropbox,

00:38:29 ◼   ► as I've done for years now,

00:38:31 ◼   ► and then Dropbox sucks them in to Google Photos

00:38:36 ◼   ► and that works for me 'cause it stays out of the way

00:38:38 ◼   ► and then I get all these other cool features.

00:38:41 ◼   ► - Yeah, no, that sounds like a good way to go

00:38:42 ◼   ► and I definitely agree.

00:38:43 ◼   ► If you're someone with a digital SLR

00:38:46 ◼   ► that takes 40 megapixel raw images

00:38:49 ◼   ► and you need to archive those

00:38:50 ◼   ► 'cause they're from weddings or whatever,

00:38:52 ◼   ► this is not a tool for you.

00:38:54 ◼   ► It's like you say, it's a consumer thing.

00:38:55 ◼   ► It's for people like me.

00:38:56 ◼   ► I go out, I take 99.9% of my photos on my phone

00:39:00 ◼   ► and then I want some quick way to have access to those.

00:39:03 ◼   ► And it's just really cool that, you know,

00:39:04 ◼   ► in the background without you worrying,

00:39:06 ◼   ► they just all end up in a central place

00:39:07 ◼   ► and a central place that is now searchable.

00:39:10 ◼   ► You know, I didn't have that two weeks ago.

00:39:12 ◼   ► - Right.

00:39:15 ◼   ► Real quick before we cut you loose,

00:39:16 ◼   ► you know, there's been a lot of conversation

00:39:19 ◼   ► and there always is with Google,

00:39:21 ◼   ► especially in the Apple sort of camp,

00:39:23 ◼   ► that Google is gonna do things with your data

00:39:26 ◼   ► or they're going to, you know,

00:39:29 ◼   ► your kids are gonna end up on an ad somewhere.

00:39:32 ◼   ► You know, there's this really interesting article,

00:39:35 ◼   ► if you guys saw it, over on Medium,

00:39:38 ◼   ► Federico linked to it on Mac Stories a couple days ago,

00:39:40 ◼   ► that talks about this, and basically,

00:39:42 ◼   ► with the head of Streams Photos and sharing it at Google,

00:39:46 ◼   ► basically, sort of sums up, Myke,

00:39:47 ◼   ► your sort of stance on Google over the years of like,

00:39:51 ◼   ► yes, they have access to a lot of data about me,

00:39:52 ◼   ► but I get all these great things back,

00:39:54 ◼   ► and I think you even just said that with the photos,

00:39:55 ◼   ► like, you know, they can do all these little things,

00:39:58 ◼   ► and you get all these really nice tools and stuff

00:40:01 ◼   ► at your fingertips, but there's a part of me,

00:40:05 ◼   ► and I'm using Google Photos, and I will continue to use it

00:40:08 ◼   ► as just, like I said, another window into my photo library.

00:40:11 ◼   ► But does that sort of stuff make you guys think

00:40:16 ◼   ► differently about using this, or is it something

00:40:19 ◼   ► that is not really a concern, or maybe it is a concern

00:40:24 ◼   ► but not an important one?

00:40:26 ◼   ► What are your thoughts on that?

00:40:28 ◼   ► So I mean my take on that is that, you know, we, as part of what I do, like I run servers,

00:40:34 ◼   ► I know where files go, I know how cloud hosting works, so any company that you're going to

00:40:39 ◼   ► use that involves any sort of hosting, you have to implicitly trust them.

00:40:42 ◼   ► So you have to trust Dropbox, you have to trust Apple, you have to trust Google, and

00:40:45 ◼   ► if that's not, you know, something that you're comfortable with, then that's, you know, that's

00:40:51 ◼   ► fine.

00:40:52 ◼   ► But I mean for me personally, I really do, you know, put a lot of trust in Google.

00:40:56 ◼   ► I don't mind if their algorithms go through my email, I don't mind if their algorithms

00:41:00 ◼   ► go through my photos.

00:41:02 ◼   ► Because I know at that scale you can't have a human being sitting there and going, "Oh,

00:41:05 ◼   ► yes, interesting.

00:41:06 ◼   ► What did Russell talk about today?

00:41:08 ◼   ► Page, page, page."

00:41:10 ◼   ► It's just not a thing that worries me.

00:41:12 ◼   ► And I mean if it is something that worries you personally, then that's fine.

00:41:16 ◼   ► You don't have to use it.

00:41:17 ◼   ► Yeah, I feel the same.

00:41:19 ◼   ► And I also, I spoke about this on Upgrade recently.

00:41:24 ◼   ► I feel utility in this stuff.

00:41:26 ◼   ► And it's even like in the interview, Bradley Horowitz is talking about, let's say for example

00:41:31 ◼   ► in the future they find some way that they're happy with to give this data in some form

00:41:39 ◼   ► to companies.

00:41:40 ◼   ► Let's say Tesla need to make a product recall.

00:41:43 ◼   ► They can contact you directly because they can find out you own a Tesla because of your

00:41:48 ◼   ► photo data.

00:41:49 ◼   ► And he's saying, "Look, we have the proper controls and checks and all that kind of stuff

00:41:52 ◼   ► imbalance and to make sure it's all okay and that the users find it.

00:41:56 ◼   ► He's speaking kind of... it sounds like a little off the cuff but it probably

00:42:01 ◼   ► isn't. But the idea of like that of course they'll make sure that

00:42:05 ◼   ► people know what they're doing. Because this is the type of thing that

00:42:08 ◼   ► if Google got silly about the company would shut down because they would be

00:42:13 ◼   ► taken through every single court on the planet. If they just start selling

00:42:17 ◼   ► people's photo data. There is a way to do this properly and I

00:42:23 ◼   ► believe that they would do it properly. And people have been saying

00:42:27 ◼   ► that this is like, and I think Google has said this as well, this is Gmail for

00:42:31 ◼   ► photos and I am so on board with that as an idea for what this is. It just feels

00:42:37 ◼   ► like that. This is just like doing for photos what Gmail did for email. It's

00:42:42 ◼   ► just is like just an end-to-end solution it's simple and you have unlimited

00:42:47 ◼   ► storage. I am finding something weird at the moment it's probably to do with my

00:42:50 ◼   ► setup where for some... I don't understand what is happening on my phone on my iPhone I'm

00:42:54 ◼   ► seeing duplicate photos but not on the web so something as weird is happening

00:42:57 ◼   ► on my iPhone I need to diagnose but I think that's because I kind of have my

00:43:02 ◼   ► photos rooting in and out again but I'll work that out later but they look it's

00:43:06 ◼   ► perfectly fine on the on the Mac. But I'm excited about this. I'm happy that

00:43:12 ◼   ► there is a simple solution that I get utility out of from a company that is

00:43:16 ◼   ► not going to shut this down. Yeah I mean I'm the same I just hope that yeah

00:43:22 ◼   ► the curse of connected doesn't strike again because I mean you guys are a bit

00:43:26 ◼   ► infamous for this. You know that is a long-running joke of the show but there

00:43:31 ◼   ► was a point of this Steven that I saw I think you make on Twitter this week

00:43:34 ◼   ► that somebody was like, "Oh, but Google have a history of shutting stuff down," which they do.

00:43:39 ◼   ► Yeah, someone asked me that. And people always say, "Well, Google Reader..." Yes, Google does

00:43:48 ◼   ► do that, but I wouldn't worry about that with Photos. Photos is a need that everybody has.

00:43:54 ◼   ► Only we care about RSS services. I think this is clearly something here to stay,

00:44:02 ◼   ► Not only because everyone has photos, but especially if you know

00:44:04 ◼   ► If you can install it on iOS or Android or an Android if it's automatic where I can just have my photos backed up to

00:44:11 ◼   ► This thing automatically like that's gonna be such a value to so many people. I really I

00:44:16 ◼   ► Don't remember. I don't remember who tweeted a couple people did actually I don't really worry about that with with Google stuff

00:44:22 ◼   ► Yes, they shut stuff down sometimes but it's a they always give you a way to get your data back

00:44:27 ◼   ► their Google takeout is really good and it's

00:44:31 ◼   ► it's sort of too big and too important for them to brush this aside in two years.

00:44:37 ◼   ► Because I think there was something that you said which I liked which is

00:44:44 ◼   ► like photos are just they are part of every big company. Right, I mean

00:44:50 ◼   ► Apple has their photos platform, Google has theirs, you can do stuff with

00:44:54 ◼   ► OneDrive, Microsoft, Dropbox of course has carousel. I mean any big

00:45:00 ◼   ► Amazon photos, I mean any big like platform company you can think of is

00:45:04 ◼   ► doing something in this space that they can't they can't afford not to at this

00:45:07 ◼   ► point. So I would I wouldn't let that worry your your sweet head.

00:45:12 ◼   ► Yeah I think that's the same. I think that you know as integral as you know

00:45:16 ◼   ► email is to our lives now I think photos has become the same thing and I think

00:45:21 ◼   ► you know big companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, you know Dropbox they all

00:45:24 ◼   ► realize that. This is definitely not some you know 20% project like Google

00:45:29 ◼   ► reader was so I think this is here to stay you know for the long run.

00:45:33 ◼   ► Russell thank you so much for joining us. Where can people find you on the

00:45:37 ◼   ► internet? They can find me in San Francisco. Come and say hi while I'm here

00:45:41 ◼   ► but seriously you can find me @RustyShelf on the Twitters and you can

00:45:47 ◼   ► see stuff about our company at ShiftyJelly.com. Awesome. Thanks so much for

00:45:52 ◼   ► joining us. Thanks for having me. Right let me just take a last break for today

00:45:57 ◼   ► and then we can get into talking about some WWDC predictions before we head into

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00:49:47 ◼   ► Dub-Dub huh? Please stop. So we want to do some WWDC predictions. Can I start? Yes you please go

00:49:55 ◼   ► first and then I am going to play I'm gonna read Federico's and

00:49:59 ◼   ► simultaneously pull his apart as I read them. It's gonna be great. Yeah so whilst

00:50:03 ◼   ► Federico couldn't be here he provided us with all of his predictions but I have

00:50:08 ◼   ► some of my own. But I wanted to just get out there because one day I'm gonna get

00:50:11 ◼   ► something right and then it's gonna be awesome. So the only really

00:50:15 ◼   ► strong one for me is I think that we're gonna see a complete overhaul of

00:50:20 ◼   ► notifications. I think that today widgets will be more

00:50:25 ◼   ► powerful, there will be some rethinking and some extending and what

00:50:29 ◼   ► they can and can't do. I think that we're gonna see notifications overhauled in

00:50:33 ◼   ► general, like better and more actionable notifications, maybe more button

00:50:38 ◼   ► choices, more stuff that can be activated about having to open the app to do it,

00:50:44 ◼   ► right? It can just be done and it happens in the background. Maybe as well allowing

00:50:48 ◼   ► messaging apps to use the quick replies, like so Slack could use that for example

00:50:53 ◼   ► which would be awesome. I think that we're gonna see better notification

00:50:57 ◼   ► settings for apps, I spoke about this a couple of weeks ago, like the global

00:51:00 ◼   ► settings stuff, I think we're gonna see that. And also some more APIs for

00:51:04 ◼   ► allowing granular notification support to help enhance the Apple Watch so you

00:51:09 ◼   ► could have certain notifications sent to certain places and you could choose those

00:51:14 ◼   ► in your apps of choice. I think we are going to see a music streaming service. I

00:51:19 ◼   ► think that's gonna be a thing that happens and that's gonna be great. I

00:51:23 ◼   ► think that's a pretty obvious one. I think we're only gonna see an Apple TV

00:51:26 ◼   ► announcement if there'll be some content deals as well, some like additional cool

00:51:30 ◼   ► stuff that we're gonna see on stage or just stuff that nobody really cares

00:51:33 ◼   ► about but they're gonna do it anyway like you know they're gonna get some

00:51:36 ◼   ► more streaming services or something like that I think we're gonna see some

00:51:39 ◼   ► more of that kind of stuff that goes along with it maybe it'll be some big

00:51:43 ◼   ► video games or something but I think that Apple TV will come with some other

00:51:47 ◼   ► flashy presentations or announcements and but I think the thing that will get

00:51:51 ◼   ► the most on stage time at this keynote is going to be watch OS 2.0 I think out

00:51:56 ◼   ► of OS X iOS and the watch OS I think that they're gonna devote the most time

00:52:01 ◼   ► to showing us the new features of 2.0 and also some examples of the types of

00:52:06 ◼   ► apps that can be built with the native SDK.

00:52:09 ◼   ► I agree on both points. You know notifications have always been vaguely

00:52:15 ◼   ► frustrating on iOS and now you know you can, if you're an iMessage, you can

00:52:21 ◼   ► reply and you can dictate or type right into the notification drop-down little

00:52:26 ◼   ► guy but you can if it's something like slack or or email or something like that

00:52:32 ◼   ► so it's a degree it's it's sort of time to open it up a little bit more and you

00:52:38 ◼   ► know I think overall you know people say they want like universal VIP which I

00:52:43 ◼   ► don't think is really possible

00:52:45 ◼   ► I mean how does how does iOS know you know Myke you're an email VIP how do

00:52:50 ◼   ► they tie that to Twitter and slack and other services but I do think a more

00:52:54 ◼   ► common more you know powerful way to break these things down into sort of

00:53:01 ◼   ► bite-sized chunks makes makes a lot of sense well I think some of the universal

00:53:05 ◼   ► VIP stuff comes from like don't have like a friends list on the watch and VIP

00:53:11 ◼   ► and that kind of stuff like give me you know you unify that at least you know

00:53:17 ◼   ► right we'll see obviously watch OS is gonna get a lot of time they they have

00:53:23 ◼   ► basically already said that native apps will be part of the keynote on

00:53:31 ◼   ► Monday. So yeah, I think that's all. I think those are probably two really

00:53:36 ◼   ► safe bets. Federico had that stuff, you know, access to the sensors and

00:53:45 ◼   ► hardware which Apple said the SDK will have, that sort of thing. Apple will make it

00:53:53 ◼   ► easy to migrate from watch kit to watch OS SDK.

00:53:55 ◼   ► I'm not so sure he's right about that.

00:53:56 ◼   ► I don't think Apple really cares

00:53:58 ◼   ► if it takes you more time to rewrite your watch app.

00:54:00 ◼   ► - Especially if they announce it now for like the fall.

00:54:03 ◼   ► - I think that's definitely the case.

00:54:05 ◼   ► I think it's definitely alongside iOS 9 in the fall.

00:54:10 ◼   ► You know.

00:54:12 ◼   ► - It's interesting that he doesn't think

00:54:14 ◼   ► there'll be a native SDK for the Apple TV.

00:54:17 ◼   ► Like that seems like something

00:54:18 ◼   ► that they would definitely do because of games.

00:54:20 ◼   ► - Yeah, I think so.

00:54:24 ◼   ► And maybe games, on iOS games have always had

00:54:29 ◼   ► like weird status where they can run code bases

00:54:33 ◼   ► that aren't Apple, there's always this weird muddy water

00:54:38 ◼   ► with games and that may continue to be the case on the watch.

00:54:41 ◼   ► I have yet to find a reason that I would want to play

00:54:43 ◼   ► a game on my watch but maybe I'm the minority there.

00:54:49 ◼   ► - So yeah, so, watch apps for sure,

00:54:53 ◼   ► watch OS 2.0 or whatever it will be called for sure.

00:54:57 ◼   ► You know, new OS X, San Francisco font

00:54:59 ◼   ► showing up on iOS and OS X.

00:55:02 ◼   ► - How do you feel about that by the way?

00:55:04 ◼   ► - I'm not thrilled they're changing it again on the Mac

00:55:07 ◼   ► or that it's rumored.

00:55:08 ◼   ► I do think San Francisco is really nice looking

00:55:11 ◼   ► and really easy to read, which I would appreciate.

00:55:14 ◼   ► You know, like I said, it's weird that if they do it

00:55:19 ◼   ► that Yosemite is the only version of OSN

00:55:21 ◼   ► that was using Helvetica for the system font.

00:55:24 ◼   ► But I could see why Apple wants to do it.

00:55:26 ◼   ► And for a company that cares about every single detail,

00:55:29 ◼   ► not having their own typeface in their UI

00:55:33 ◼   ► has always seemed strange to me.

00:55:35 ◼   ► So it seems like it's time.

00:55:37 ◼   ► It's just like, why didn't you do this a year ago?

00:55:39 ◼   ► Like why did you always know Helvetica

00:55:43 ◼   ► was gonna be a stepping stone in OS 10?

00:55:45 ◼   ► Or did you not think San Francisco was gonna be ready?

00:55:48 ◼   ► you know, or what I think actually happened,

00:55:51 ◼   ► if the watch was actually supposed to ship in the fall

00:55:54 ◼   ► and it slipped, my guess is that Yosemite

00:55:57 ◼   ► was supposed to use San Francisco initially.

00:56:00 ◼   ► - Ooh, that's, I was just thinking like,

00:56:02 ◼   ► why did they do it?

00:56:04 ◼   ► That is smart.

00:56:06 ◼   ► - And when they couldn't ship the watch,

00:56:07 ◼   ► they didn't want to tip their hand with the font

00:56:11 ◼   ► or with the typeface, and so they went with Helvetica

00:56:14 ◼   ► as a stand-in, which is fine, like,

00:56:17 ◼   ► I have a laundry list of problems with Yosemite's UI.

00:56:20 ◼   ► Helvetica is not on that list.

00:56:22 ◼   ► I really like it as a system font for the most part.

00:56:25 ◼   ► So maybe they were just sort of backed into a corner

00:56:28 ◼   ► with the timing.

00:56:29 ◼   ► 'Cause you know, it's a lot of moving parts, right?

00:56:31 ◼   ► Like you're not gonna hold off your OS X redesign

00:56:34 ◼   ► because your watch isn't ready to ship, so.

00:56:36 ◼   ► Federica also says,

00:56:39 ◼   ► and I agree more iCloud drive presence in the Finder.

00:56:42 ◼   ► Right now you have that in the sidebar,

00:56:45 ◼   ► but it's sort of janky and like it's hard to understand

00:56:48 ◼   ► why it's different and it's hard,

00:56:51 ◼   ► my big promise is it's hard to understand

00:56:52 ◼   ► sync status of anything.

00:56:54 ◼   ► I think it's just they need to continue

00:56:56 ◼   ► to make that clearer.

00:56:57 ◼   ► What is going on in iCloud Drive?

00:56:59 ◼   ► What's there, what's not?

00:57:00 ◼   ► What is the state of this document or this folder?

00:57:03 ◼   ► And he says, Siri and Control Center come to OS X.

00:57:07 ◼   ► You know, it'd be nice,

00:57:09 ◼   ► I don't know if this is the year or not.

00:57:10 ◼   ► I don't know why you would need Control Center.

00:57:12 ◼   ► I don't know what it would do for you

00:57:13 ◼   ► because you have the menu bar

00:57:15 ◼   ► and you have media keys on your keyboard.

00:57:17 ◼   ► They basically cover things like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi,

00:57:20 ◼   ► you know, power stuff, volume.

00:57:23 ◼   ► But Siri, I think it's probably time.

00:57:26 ◼   ► There have actually been times where I wish I had Siri

00:57:28 ◼   ► on the Mac if my hands were full and I could just say,

00:57:31 ◼   ► you know, ahoy computer phone

00:57:32 ◼   ► and have Siri do something for me, but.

00:57:34 ◼   ► I'm gonna come back to iOS if that's okay.

00:57:41 ◼   ► Federico, is that okay with you?

00:57:42 ◼   ► Oh, we can't answer.

00:57:44 ◼   ► - C, C, he said C.

00:57:46 ◼   ► - So, he says other stuff, he says Swift 2.0,

00:57:50 ◼   ► I don't know if it's like air quotes 2.0,

00:57:52 ◼   ► but I think Swift will see, if not keynote time,

00:57:55 ◼   ► I think definitely time in the State of the Union,

00:57:57 ◼   ► which if you're not familiar with this,

00:57:59 ◼   ► the State of the Union is the keynote Apple gives

00:58:02 ◼   ► Monday afternoon, sort of after the public keynote,

00:58:07 ◼   ► there's a break, and then State of the Union,

00:58:08 ◼   ► it's available to developer members,

00:58:12 ◼   ► so I'm a member so I can watch this on my iPad later.

00:58:15 ◼   ► And it's sort of a--

00:58:16 ◼   ► - I think it's everyone now though,

00:58:17 ◼   ► that last year that was one of the videos

00:58:19 ◼   ► that anybody could watch.

00:58:20 ◼   ► - Was it? Okay.

00:58:21 ◼   ► - Yeah, it was.

00:58:22 ◼   ► - But, so anyway, so the State of the Union

00:58:25 ◼   ► is a, it's sort of half, we are unpacking the keynote

00:58:29 ◼   ► into more detail and like, this is some of the technical

00:58:31 ◼   ► stuff going on behind the scenes.

00:58:33 ◼   ► I mean, the keynote is designed for everybody,

00:58:34 ◼   ► this is sort of one step closer to like,

00:58:37 ◼   ► you're in a, you know, in an actual WWDC session.

00:58:41 ◼   ► - Yeah, when we watched it last year,

00:58:42 ◼   ► it was the first time we ever watched it.

00:58:44 ◼   ► There are parts of it that I thought were really interesting.

00:58:46 ◼   ► There are parts of it where I wanted to blow my brains out.

00:58:48 ◼   ► 'Cause for me, it was like, oh my God,

00:58:50 ◼   ► he's writing code on stage,

00:58:51 ◼   ► I don't understand what is happening.

00:58:55 ◼   ► And it was horrible.

00:58:56 ◼   ► And watching it in the room with people that understood it,

00:58:59 ◼   ► they're like, oh, look at that.

00:59:00 ◼   ► And I'm like, ah, it's just words.

00:59:02 ◼   ► Words I don't even understand.

00:59:04 ◼   ► - Yeah, so I think Swift might show up there.

00:59:10 ◼   ► I think you probably actually will.

00:59:12 ◼   ► New remote app for the Apple Music Service and Apple TV.

00:59:15 ◼   ► Yeah, maybe.

00:59:16 ◼   ► Demos of iWork apps, like maybe,

00:59:20 ◼   ► I don't know if they're gonna do much with iWork or quote.

00:59:23 ◼   ► - Well, there's extensions in iWork apps is what you're saying.

00:59:27 ◼   ► - Oh, I can read.

00:59:28 ◼   ► Yeah, if they do extensions.

00:59:30 ◼   ► And then new parental controls in the iOS,

00:59:35 ◼   ► in iOS and the Mac app storage, I think is definitely huge.

00:59:40 ◼   ► I

00:59:41 ◼   ► Think overall we've talked about we've talked at great length on this show about the problems of the App Store

00:59:46 ◼   ► You talked a lot about it on behind the app, you know, I definitely would like to see this sort of like curated

00:59:53 ◼   ► Idea get spread to the App Store and better control and and all this stuff

01:00:00 ◼   ► I think you know do we see is the time for Apple to do this?

01:00:02 ◼   ► It's kind of like if this stuff doesn't happen next week. It's gonna wait for a year

01:00:05 ◼   ► Apple's not going to roll out, I don't think, a large App Store change in October.

01:00:10 ◼   ► Right, like this is the time to have everyone's attention and everyone's

01:00:15 ◼   ► sitting there looking at the stage. This is when you make those announcements and

01:00:18 ◼   ► when you make those changes. So some of this stuff, if we don't see it, it's just

01:00:22 ◼   ► it's not in the cards for, you know, 2015-2016. So anyways, you want to go through

01:00:30 ◼   ► some of this iOS stuff I feel like I've been rambling iOS iOS 9 yes so one of

01:00:37 ◼   ► the main things that the Federico I know really wants and I'm not convinced we'll

01:00:44 ◼   ► see it demoed WWDC is iPad multitasking so like split screen views or some

01:00:53 ◼   ► additions to the iPad which show it's great for multitasking I think that is

01:00:58 ◼   ► possible but I think that they might wait until the next iPads who knows but

01:01:02 ◼   ► it would be nice to see it there I wonder if the mini will get that stuff

01:01:08 ◼   ► I don't know like depends what they're gonna do but it would be be interesting

01:01:13 ◼   ► to see something like that make me might make me want to use my iPad in in

01:01:17 ◼   ► different sort of situations you know because it kind of will bridge the gap a

01:01:20 ◼   ► little bit more say I want to do some research or something and write some

01:01:23 ◼   ► notes because I would just like to be able to do that it might be nice to be

01:01:27 ◼   ► through an iPad or something do you think we're gonna see that? I think if we

01:01:31 ◼   ► do it's gonna be sort of like the split view controller stuff or like very

01:01:37 ◼   ► clearly Apple is putting things in place because there's going to be a bigger

01:01:40 ◼   ► phone but they can't say there's going to be a bigger phone and so it may be

01:01:44 ◼   ► that like if you sort of put the pieces together in all the sessions like this

01:01:49 ◼   ► is clearly coming but I agree with you I have a tendency to think that this might

01:01:54 ◼   ► be one of those things where it's sort of held for later unless iOS 9 is not as

01:01:59 ◼   ► wide-reaching as some people we know might like it to be and this is sort of

01:02:04 ◼   ► like the big feature at that point I think we see it on stage but I think it

01:02:08 ◼   ► just kind of depends on the positioning of it. A home app to manage home kit

01:02:13 ◼   ► devices I think that's pretty solid now especially today saw a bunch of people

01:02:18 ◼   ► reporting Federico had another write-up about this he writes a lot at the beach

01:02:21 ◼   ► that's that's what I've learned today that there's there are some homekit

01:02:27 ◼   ► devices now popping up so that's that's the thing that's happening so there

01:02:33 ◼   ► will probably be more about that on stage keyboard tweaks including a

01:02:37 ◼   ► redesigned shift key I don't know about the shift key I don't know for two years

01:02:42 ◼   ► right yeah I feel like you're kind of all in on it now unless Apple were

01:02:49 ◼   ► looking for like a quick chair on stage. Yeah like "hey we redesigned the shift key"

01:02:56 ◼   ► You know where fist pump guy jumps up you know. If fist pump guy jumps up for the shift key then

01:03:01 ◼   ► we greatly underestimated the power of the shift key design.

01:03:08 ◼   ► We have, I've seen people saying about this like a Google Now type Siri so it's more

01:03:17 ◼   ► visual and spotlight based and this would come along with, as Sepp Ferrico is mentioning,

01:03:22 ◼   ► initial Siri and spotlight APIs because you'd be able to tie backwards and forwards for them.

01:03:28 ◼   ► Which would make sense, you know, I think it would be interesting to see that. I don't know

01:03:34 ◼   ► what Apple would be able to do here because they're not Google and they just don't have

01:03:41 ◼   ► the data that Google has to be able to build Google Now. Yeah, unless this is searching just

01:03:46 ◼   ► what's on device.

01:03:48 ◼   ► - That seems like it would take a lot of power,

01:03:51 ◼   ► processing power to do.

01:03:53 ◼   ► - That seems like a very Apple thing to do.

01:03:56 ◼   ► Or it may be that, you know, it may be the time

01:03:59 ◼   ► where they say, look, if you have iCloud

01:04:00 ◼   ► and you want the stuff, you can log into it.

01:04:02 ◼   ► But maybe it's only, maybe it's only if you have iCloud

01:04:06 ◼   ► and not if you use Gmail or Google Apps like we do

01:04:09 ◼   ► or something like that.

01:04:09 ◼   ► So I agree with you, like this would be really nice

01:04:12 ◼   ► and there's a lot of things about Google now

01:04:13 ◼   ► that I really like.

01:04:14 ◼   ► But I don't know if Apple has the keys to the car

01:04:18 ◼   ► with this sort of stuff because they,

01:04:20 ◼   ► because of their stance on this stuff.

01:04:22 ◼   ► I don't know, it'd be great, and it would be great

01:04:26 ◼   ► if Siri could go to the next episode,

01:04:30 ◼   ► the next download episode in Overcast, for instance.

01:04:33 ◼   ► And so that sort of stuff I think is more likely

01:04:35 ◼   ► than a Google Now type thing,

01:04:39 ◼   ► 'cause I just don't know how Apple solves the data problem.

01:04:43 ◼   ► It seems insurmountable almost.

01:04:46 ◼   ► - I mean, I feel like if they did have some API stuff,

01:04:50 ◼   ► you could have apps throwing information out

01:04:53 ◼   ► for Apple to collect, but even in that instance,

01:04:57 ◼   ► it still feels like it would be very simplified

01:04:59 ◼   ► because it's gonna be like that.

01:05:01 ◼   ► I would be very interested to see

01:05:02 ◼   ► if they're able to pull something like this off.

01:05:04 ◼   ► I feel like this would be something that Apple would do

01:05:06 ◼   ► to try and catch up to Google,

01:05:08 ◼   ► but Google will always be ahead in this

01:05:10 ◼   ► because this is just what Google do.

01:05:14 ◼   ► This is what they make, you know?

01:05:16 ◼   ► They make little robots that search inside of information

01:05:19 ◼   ► and present it to you in different ways.

01:05:21 ◼   ► But it does feel like it's something

01:05:23 ◼   ► that Siri should be doing,

01:05:25 ◼   ► because Cortana does a little bit

01:05:26 ◼   ► of this kind of stuff as well.

01:05:27 ◼   ► So it's time for Siri to pick up this kind of intelligence.

01:05:31 ◼   ► Enhancements to the Mail app,

01:05:35 ◼   ► which include extensions on iCloud Drive.

01:05:37 ◼   ► This one feels like it has to exist.

01:05:40 ◼   ► Not that I care because I use third-party mail apps but this one needs to exist in mail.app.

01:05:47 ◼   ► It's kind of ridiculous that it wasn't there already.

01:05:50 ◼   ► A couple of quick ones, new health app visualisations.

01:05:54 ◼   ► Yeah, I suppose they'll do more there.

01:05:57 ◼   ► Find My Watch, which you know, they have to find my iPhone on the watch.

01:06:01 ◼   ► Find My Watch would make a lot of sense.

01:06:04 ◼   ► Beats music streaming with popular celebrity DJs.

01:06:08 ◼   ► Maybe this might be like Tim Cook's celebrity moment, you know?

01:06:12 ◼   ► Here is the DJs that we're talking about this week.

01:06:14 ◼   ► I do think we're going to see the music stuff.

01:06:17 ◼   ► So I actually thought a lot about this today.

01:06:23 ◼   ► You can think about WWDC in two ways.

01:06:25 ◼   ► You can think about it being the developer conference where Apple does things like unveil

01:06:30 ◼   ► Swift like they did last year.

01:06:32 ◼   ► And they showed code during the keynote on stage.

01:06:38 ◼   ► I think that's the primary way that I think about W2C.

01:06:43 ◼   ► Maybe because I'm there and I'm friends

01:06:44 ◼   ► with a bunch of developers and I care about that stuff.

01:06:47 ◼   ► But W2C is one of Apple's only media times

01:06:52 ◼   ► throughout the year.

01:06:53 ◼   ► And so something like the music streaming service,

01:06:56 ◼   ► if that is a completely consumer oriented,

01:07:01 ◼   ► not open to developers type thing.

01:07:04 ◼   ► And so I wonder, do they show it now

01:07:06 ◼   ► or do they, or is this, what I'm increasingly thinking is,

01:07:10 ◼   ► does this get bundled in with a phone announcement

01:07:12 ◼   ► in the fall?

01:07:13 ◼   ► You know, Apple for a long time did the music events

01:07:17 ◼   ► in like September and October,

01:07:18 ◼   ► kind of flip-flopped and moved around over the years

01:07:20 ◼   ► with iPods, and they still do some of that.

01:07:23 ◼   ► They had Bondo and Tim Cook doing the weird finger thing,

01:07:25 ◼   ► which I'm now doing with my two hands, and I feel weird.

01:07:28 ◼   ► Maybe beats and stuff, maybe that gets pushed

01:07:34 ◼   ► to the fall when it's more of a consumer focus.

01:07:38 ◼   ► I don't know, and they could do this on Monday

01:07:39 ◼   ► and it not be weird at all, but I just,

01:07:41 ◼   ► I have this feeling that it might not be next week

01:07:44 ◼   ► and it might be in the fall instead.

01:07:46 ◼   ► - No, I think that if Apple are really going

01:07:50 ◼   ► for bug fixes and stability improvements,

01:07:53 ◼   ► then that's why they do the music streaming service

01:07:56 ◼   ► because they have a user-facing feature

01:07:57 ◼   ► to talk about at WWDC.

01:07:59 ◼   ► - I mean, maybe.

01:08:01 ◼   ► I mean there's that has just as much possibility happening as my thing I think I think it ever also

01:08:07 ◼   ► We're saying and the rumors are that this launches before the next iPhone and if they wait for the new iPhones

01:08:13 ◼   ► That's longer than the new iPhone

01:08:15 ◼   ► Because they did like the redesign music app is in 8.4

01:08:19 ◼   ► Right, which is similarly we're gonna see next week. So

01:08:23 ◼   ► Very has also said that there could be a workout app on the iPhone with workout types that are supported on the watch

01:08:30 ◼   ► I don't know. I feel like maybe but I feel like that would be taking away a

01:08:33 ◼   ► Feature

01:08:36 ◼   ► Agreed that the watch has you're taking away less of the watches reason to exist if you put the work app on the iPhone

01:08:42 ◼   ► I agree, and I think it's you know, I really like having the activity app. So if you have a watch

01:08:48 ◼   ► Activity app shows up on your phone

01:08:51 ◼   ► automagically and it has got the rings and you can look at the you know

01:08:56 ◼   ► Awards and everything and I really like that app and actually like the way it looks is like the first app with a dark

01:09:02 ◼   ► UI that I've really have ever liked on iOS

01:09:05 ◼   ► But I have a tendency to agree with you that like

01:09:10 ◼   ► Showing activity on the phone is a is a status report, right? It's showing me what I've done

01:09:15 ◼   ► So if my watch is not on me, I can kind of see where I am throughout the day

01:09:19 ◼   ► But it's sort of a it's a read-only type thing

01:09:22 ◼   ► I can't you can't go into activity as far as I know and like manually into a workout you have to do that on the

01:09:26 ◼   ► watch and so I don't know like why would you take the sort of one of the primary

01:09:31 ◼   ► things of the watch and bring it to the iPhone at least so early like I could see

01:09:35 ◼   ► this making sense down the road I think right now it's still really early in

01:09:39 ◼   ► this in this products life and I don't know if you want to take out a big you

01:09:45 ◼   ► know a big leg out of it out of its out of its stool quite yet so last couple of

01:09:51 ◼   ► things are some changes to the extensions that go beyond the share

01:09:55 ◼   ► So, you know, like having on the copy and paste menu, for example.

01:09:58 ◼   ► Maybe Force Touch will be something that brings this in the next devices.

01:10:03 ◼   ► And, you know, leading in and touching on what we were talking about with Google Photos earlier,

01:10:08 ◼   ► better faces and places support in the Photos app for iOS.

01:10:12 ◼   ► Yep, I think in a lot of ways there's a lot of work to be done in Photos on iOS.

01:10:19 ◼   ► Like if you have iCloud Photo Library and you open the Photos app or the photo picker,

01:10:24 ◼   ► the photo picker your phone basically just sits there for eight seconds ten

01:10:27 ◼   ► seconds while it is doing something hopefully. You know I think this is one

01:10:33 ◼   ► of those weird things where photos sort of came out mid-cycle and I feel like

01:10:36 ◼   ► there's a lot of rough edges still in in the iOS implementation of it so I think

01:10:42 ◼   ► that but I think photos are gonna get pretty constant attention for a while

01:10:46 ◼   ► till they get all this stuff worked out. So thank you Federico for sending us in

01:10:51 ◼   ► your list and I like that you know because he's not here we can go no not happening.

01:10:56 ◼   ► Yeah so the uh we didn't talk about the the Apple TV thing I do tend to think that new

01:11:06 ◼   ► Apple hardware is on the horizon I I think that it will come hand in hand with either

01:11:14 ◼   ► a native SDK or Apple's Web TV service.

01:11:17 ◼   ► Like the the the Apple TV is basically

01:11:22 ◼   ► an A5 I think it's 1080p. I've got one

01:11:27 ◼   ► it's it's a fine little box. I mean it

01:11:29 ◼   ► can be it can be buggy but the hardware

01:11:31 ◼   ► seems it does what it needs to do you

01:11:34 ◼   ► know it's it could be faster but it's

01:11:36 ◼   ► not I don't want to like hit it with a

01:11:39 ◼   ► hammer every time I use it. So I don't

01:11:43 ◼   ► know what they gain from like releasing hardware now and it being another six

01:11:50 ◼   ► months or the three months or the nine months until there's software to kind of

01:11:54 ◼   ► like use the additional hardware. So my thought is when Apple TV gets a refresh

01:11:58 ◼   ► it will be hardware and software at the same time and my guess is that some

01:12:02 ◼   ► software will only be only be tied like to that hardware so hey the Apple TV web

01:12:10 ◼   ► TV streaming service thing is out and you have to have a new Apple TV to play it because

01:12:14 ◼   ► the as Joe Steele points out in the chat room the only single core A5 thing ever built can't

01:12:19 ◼   ► run it.

01:12:21 ◼   ► So that to me is seems like a lock and step type thing and I don't think that's next week.

01:12:27 ◼   ► I think a lot of people want it to be next week but I don't think it is.

01:12:31 ◼   ► I think there's not enough smoke to prove there's fire there quite yet for me.

01:12:37 ◼   ► - So you think no new Apple TV?

01:12:40 ◼   ► - I think the Apple TV will go,

01:12:42 ◼   ► if it is mentioned it would be very minor.

01:12:47 ◼   ► I don't think there'll be a revision,

01:12:49 ◼   ► I don't think there'll be a software update.

01:12:51 ◼   ► We'll see.

01:12:52 ◼   ► The first 30 minutes will be about the Apple TV now

01:12:54 ◼   ► because I've said that.

01:12:55 ◼   ► I think the other hardware thing to consider

01:12:59 ◼   ► is the Mac Pro which has been out for almost two years now.

01:13:03 ◼   ► Or maybe two years since they announced it

01:13:06 ◼   ► in like about a year and a half maybe since they shipped it.

01:13:08 ◼   ► Maybe some of the chat room can correct me on that.

01:13:10 ◼   ► It's been a while, it has not had a harder update.

01:13:13 ◼   ► And I'm not, I don't follow the Xeon Intel drama

01:13:16 ◼   ► as close as Marco does.

01:13:19 ◼   ► So I'm not even sure if a Mac Pro update is possible

01:13:22 ◼   ► at this point, but it does feel like that thing

01:13:25 ◼   ► is maybe time for some sort of revision to the Mac Pro.

01:13:30 ◼   ► Even if it's the same chips, you know, GPU,

01:13:33 ◼   ► or at least a configuration change,

01:13:36 ◼   ► It just seems like that's gotten a little stale again.

01:13:39 ◼   ► And if there's any time to do a Mac Pro update,

01:13:41 ◼   ► it is at WWDC.

01:13:43 ◼   ► So I would like to see them do something with that.

01:13:46 ◼   ► - Cool.

01:13:48 ◼   ► - That's it.

01:13:49 ◼   ► iPod shuffle, yes or no?

01:13:51 ◼   ► - Oh, definitely.

01:13:52 ◼   ► - Definitely.

01:13:53 ◼   ► You heard it here first and probably only.

01:13:55 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:13:58 ◼   ► Yeah, it'll be good.

01:13:59 ◼   ► - I think that's about it.

01:14:01 ◼   ► Right, so we'll be there next week.

01:14:02 ◼   ► We'll be recording on Tuesday.

01:14:04 ◼   ► - Yes.

01:14:06 ◼   ► From our hotel room. From our hotel room, yep, and so you'll be able to hear that. We'll have

01:14:10 ◼   ► coverage on upgrade on Monday, so if you want to hear mine and Jason's opinions a

01:14:16 ◼   ► couple of hours probably after the keynote we'll have that up on upgrade

01:14:20 ◼   ► and then we'll be ready for some more considered thought after thinking about

01:14:24 ◼   ► things, finding out some more information, we'll be talking more about it on

01:14:27 ◼   ► Tuesday on Connected, so you can tune in we're gonna have a bunch of coverage

01:14:31 ◼   ► next week. Which I think you'll really enjoy, there'll be a few of us there, a few of the team, the

01:14:34 ◼   ► Relay people are going to be in San Francisco so we'll have some stuff there and hopefully

01:14:39 ◼   ► we'll be able to provide you with some great coverage next week of WWDC.

01:14:43 ◼   ► So I hope that you'll tune in and keep it locked to Relay FM, we've got some great stuff

01:14:48 ◼   ► coming that I think you guys are going to love.

01:14:51 ◼   ► If you want to find our show notes for this week you should head over to relay.fm/connected/42

01:14:59 ◼   ► probably at that page you will find the answer to everything. I think is that

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01:15:44 ◼   ► Mr Stephen Hackett. Adios.

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