00:00:00 ◼ ► From Relay, this is Connected, episode 603. Today's show is brought to you by FitBot, DocPops,
00:00:14 ◼ ► and Mercury Weather. I'm your keynote chairman, Federico Vittici, and it's my pleasure to introduce
00:00:19 ◼ ► on this chairman-only episode, the annual chairman, Stephen Hackett. Hello, fellow chairman.
00:01:01 ◼ ► you you have to stop listening, because there's a thing at the end that you can't hear.
00:01:21 ◼ ► I just picked a few things. I have lots of emails, lots of very helpful things that people
00:01:27 ◼ ► are sending me to do with Home Assistant. I had this whole email chain with somebody about
00:01:31 ◼ ► how to make, like, even the Home Assistant UI you can change, because it's just a web app.
00:01:36 ◼ ► And, like, someone sent me their favorite projects to, like, make the theme feel less like
00:01:41 ◼ ► a web app written by Android users, and so that's nice. But a couple things. Robin wrote
00:01:47 ◼ ► in. One of the things I talked about was the side gate, that I wanted to know if someone
00:01:53 ◼ ► opened that gate to our yard. And Robin wrote in and said, I really hope that Stephen's gate
00:02:00 ◼ ► in Home Assistant is called GreenGate. I want to see that in a widget in every home screen
00:02:13 ◼ ► I know. I know. It's not a GreenGate. It's just a WoodGate. But, you know, maybe I could
00:02:34 ◼ ► so far is, I use Home Assistant to track the location of the International Space Station.
00:02:43 ◼ ► They just have, I think they have an API for it. This just looks at that API. And what it
00:02:48 ◼ ► does is you can set a radius around your home's location, and then Home Assistant sends Max
00:03:09 ◼ ► I think NASA's app had a feature that would like send you a notification. No, it's longer,
00:03:14 ◼ ► older than that. You got to email when the ISS was going to be like visible from your location.
00:03:19 ◼ ► And we like try to run outside and see it. You just see like this little point of light moving
00:03:22 ◼ ► across the sky. So you can do this in Home Assistant. And then Max had a really, I think,
00:03:30 ◼ ► really clever home automation that you don't need Home Assistant for, I don't think, but it's very
00:03:34 ◼ ► clever. So Max writes, I have a bunch of basement lights in Home Assistant, but I always forget to turn
00:03:46 ◼ ► Okay. There's an irritating notification light on the master switch that tells me if other lights
00:03:52 ◼ ► downstairs are still on. And if I double tap the switch, it turns off all the basement lights at once.
00:03:58 ◼ ► Okay. That's more serious. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's actually really good.
00:04:07 ◼ ► Hey, don't you want to be inspired? No, no, no. I just wonder what are you going to do when,
00:04:12 ◼ ► when, when it's passing above you? Just go out and look at it and think, okay, I am so small.
00:04:17 ◼ ► But like every day? It is not, depending on where you are in the world, it is very infrequent.
00:04:24 ◼ ► Okay. So I don't know how frequent it is for me here. It is definitely not every night. It's definitely
00:04:31 ◼ ► not every week even. It's, it's because the ISS, like it's orbit is sort of, that's complicated.
00:04:38 ◼ ► Okay. We have to revisit Tim Cook, Tim Cooked quotes as well. Do you want to read this one?
00:04:45 ◼ ► Yes. Kevin wrote in and said, I am, oh, where's my window? I enjoyed your Tim Cooked quote episode
00:04:53 ◼ ► and wanted to provide some feedback on the quote that included peanut butter spread. I work in a
00:04:57 ◼ ► large enterprise and this is a term that I didn't know until I had a deal. I had to deal with budgets.
00:05:03 ◼ ► We use this term when we budget for something, but you either don't know when the expense will fall
00:05:08 ◼ ► or is variable throughout the year. So you spread the yearly budget across all 12 months. So it's even
00:05:15 ◼ ► like you spread peanut butter on toast. I mean, sure. Okay. Because when you're spreading peanut
00:05:22 ◼ ► butter, you want to make sure that you spread it even across the entire surface of the toast. And so
00:05:28 ◼ ► when you're budgeting and you want to spread it on 12 months, you want to make sure that it's
00:05:33 ◼ ► I get it. I get it. It's pretty, uh, pretty good. Uh, uh, yeah. I mean, could have, you know, it could
00:05:40 ◼ ► have been worse. It's about budgeting and I mean, fine. You know what? Fine. I'll take it. Yeah. I thank
00:05:48 ◼ ► you, Kevin. Yeah. And then lastly, and this is follow out, I guess. I don't know. Um, a couple people
00:05:55 ◼ ► sent us this, there'll be a screenshot in the show notes. Uh, Apple news plus has puzzles each day.
00:06:04 ◼ ► And I'm not a big, like crossword guy. Are you across? Are you like a word puzzle person?
00:06:10 ◼ ► No, no, no, no, no, but, but, but, but hold on. And I'm not joking. Uh, and I kind of want to,
00:06:18 ◼ ► want to hear from you and the listeners. So I've been thinking of, of, about trying to go,
00:06:25 ◼ ► on the wheel of fortune in Italy on TV. Yes. So I've been watching the wheel. So the wheel
00:06:33 ◼ ► of fortune was really popular when I was a kid, like, uh, 30 years ago came back. Uh, we used
00:06:43 ◼ ► to have this historic host, um, that passed away, uh, about a decade ago. Okay. And the format
00:06:50 ◼ ► was like frozen in time forever. The wheel of fortune came back last year on channel five
00:06:57 ◼ ► in Italy, and it quickly became the most watched, uh, quiz show at that time slot, uh, right after
00:07:05 ◼ ► dinner. And I've been watching the, the new version of the show religiously every day with
00:07:11 ◼ ► Sylvia. And I think I've been getting better, but obviously like playing from home is very
00:07:17 ◼ ► different from playing in, you know, in the studio, but I've actually been thinking about
00:07:22 ◼ ► it because like, there's so many times that I get upset at people not knowing the answers
00:07:27 ◼ ► or just not even strategizing the game well enough. And I don't know, I feel like I could
00:07:33 ◼ ► do a decent enough job at it. Uh, and that's the only word puzzle or collection of word puzzles
00:07:40 ◼ ► that I play regularly. It's the wheel of fortune. And Sylvia keeps pushing me like, yeah, you should,
00:07:46 ◼ ► you should go, you should go. If you win something, we can, you know, it could be, could be great for
00:07:50 ◼ ► the mortgage that we have. Uh, so I don't know. I don't know. I've been thinking about it.
00:07:56 ◼ ► Uh, I think you should do it. Uh, I think that's awesome. Um, I, I, I think I'm with you. I'm not
00:08:04 ◼ ► a word puzzle player, but if I were to be, or like what I, what I'm good at is like will a fortune
00:08:12 ◼ ► like stuff. Apparently when I was a little kid, my parents have told me that I was like obsessed with
00:08:18 ◼ ► it when I was like a toddler, like young kid. And again, it dinnertime TV show here in America. Right.
00:08:24 ◼ ► And I would like rush to eat dinner and then want to go watch wheel, which apparently is what I called
00:08:29 ◼ ► it. And, um, it's fantastic. Anyways, a bunch of people sent us this in, um, on Wednesday, May 13th,
00:08:38 ◼ ► the name of the Apple news plus crossword was triple J. Why? Which is concerning. That's very
00:08:47 ◼ ► concerning. Yes. The, the triple J is our replacement in case, uh, we die and they take over the show.
00:08:53 ◼ ► Why is, why is this happening? They sometimes remind us of that in a creepy ways. Hmm. I don't like
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00:11:29 ◼ ► And so we are deep into rumor season now with software. You know, the hardware rumor cycle never, never ends, right?
00:11:39 ◼ ► Like there's always a new shot of an iPhone or a new iPad part. But software tends to, it comes in hills and valleys, I think, in terms of rumors.
00:11:47 ◼ ► And this week, Mark Gurman released a big report outlining what he knows about iOS 27 coming, of course, at WBC and releasing this fall.
00:12:01 ◼ ► There's a lot of stuff in this report. I kind of wanted to hit on a couple of big things with you and then sort of a smorgasbord at the end.
00:12:09 ◼ ► I think we're going to get into the Siri and AI stuff because that's obviously going to be the focus.
00:12:14 ◼ ► But what was actually what was most interesting to me in this report was what Gurman wrote about the camera app on the iPhone.
00:12:34 ◼ ► Like with the liquid glass redesign, like that slider to move in between modes is kind of weird.
00:12:47 ◼ ► Because like you can just pick up your iPhone, take a picture and it's going to look great.
00:12:50 ◼ ► But like with so much of their software, Apple struggles, I think, with how do you meet the needs of the everyday user?
00:13:02 ◼ ► And the way they are thinking about solving this in the camera app is UI customization, which you and I are both huge fans of.
00:13:28 ◼ ► And in my mind, this is sort of like control center, like there are going to be spots you can change out the tools.
00:13:44 ◼ ► So for like for video, if I want, you know, 4K or 1080p or different frame rates or whatever.
00:13:48 ◼ ► And you'll be able to put these things where they're more immediately accessible to you.
00:14:22 ◼ ► They've moved a lot of that stuff into the camera app itself, but you're still kind of toggling through things.
00:14:32 ◼ ► Do you think this is a reasonable approach to make the camera app more useful to more people?
00:14:38 ◼ ► I think so, and I'm all in favor of letting users customize a tool, especially if it can be both a simple tool for just taking quick photos and videos, but also professional tools for users who want to have more controls.
00:14:57 ◼ ► But as soon as I saw this, my brain just fixated on one idea and one story that we covered previously on the show, which is the hell-eyed designer, Sebastian DeWitt, now working at Apple, and the lawsuit between the...
00:15:18 ◼ ► So, and wasn't the news report at the time, didn't it mention that Apple tried to acquire Haylite as well?
00:15:41 ◼ ► They definitely have a person that knows how to design a flexible camera UI now, amongst other things.
00:16:09 ◼ ► But we've seen Apple go beyond that for the past few years when they started, wasn't it iPadOS 16, the cursed release with Stage Manager?
00:16:20 ◼ ► But if you forget about Stage Manager, it was also the release when they brought customizable toolbars to iPad from the Mac.
00:16:32 ◼ ► But we have a precedent for Apple letting you actually customize the UI of apps with the system level control.
00:16:40 ◼ ► I actually wonder if this could be something that you can do in the camera app, but it's also something that is an API for developers, like a proper liquid glass API for customizing controls.
00:17:12 ◼ ► So the only way out is to not make a decision for people, but to let the people make a decision themselves.
00:18:04 ◼ ► But even that aside, I just realized, like, oh, your buttons aren't the buttons I would have here.
00:18:19 ◼ ► Because I think we've all had those experiences where, oh, the thing on the tab bar is not really what I want.
00:18:30 ◼ ► Like, TweetBot back in the day and now Ivory and a lot of other apps, sort of indie apps made by people who really care about the platform do offer some of those things.
00:19:07 ◼ ► But if this is successful and, like, people use it and are happy with it, maybe that's a signal to Apple that we should have more of it.
00:19:16 ◼ ► The camera report also, it, like, has sparked a hot take in me that may end up being a Flexi at some point.
00:19:26 ◼ ► Another thing coming inside the camera UI is Siri mode, so a way to get to visual intelligence.
00:19:41 ◼ ► Now, if you set up a new phone, all, like, the fancy swipey stuff is turned off by default.
00:19:46 ◼ ► But visual intelligence, like, I think, maybe I'm wrong, but I think the only way to get to visual intelligence is camera control.
00:20:03 ◼ ► Yeah, you can, there's a control center toggle, which means you can do action button and all those things.
00:20:08 ◼ ► Yeah, and, you know, maybe that's, uh, maybe moving it, I mean, moving in here is clearly a part of the bigger play with Siri and the Gemini models and everything.
00:20:18 ◼ ► But it just, like, sparked to me, I was like, oh, visual intelligence is really tied to the camera control.
00:20:34 ◼ ► Okay, you want to walk us through, because, uh, the Siri stuff, there's a lot of detail in here about, like, the UI that Siri could take, which I think is really fascinating.
00:20:44 ◼ ► So the report, uh, essentially mentioned something that we've been hearing for some time.
00:20:49 ◼ ► Um, I can tell you, Steven, uh, I have also privately heard that this is the UI from a, you know, a source.
00:20:59 ◼ ► And, uh, the idea being that Siri comes up from the dynamic island this year in iOS 27.
00:21:06 ◼ ► So, uh, when you activate Siri, you press the side button or you invoke, um, you use the invocation phrase, uh, a glowing Siri UI appears as a special type of UI.
00:21:25 ◼ ► And, uh, obviously, uh, you know, the report says you can, you can choose whether you want to speak or you want to type.
00:21:31 ◼ ► Now, the idea is that you can also, um, uh, this is the part that I think is very clever.
00:21:37 ◼ ► It sounds like they're going to use the dynamic island, um, not just as a container for the Siri interface, but also as a new gesture that allows you to invoke Siri.
00:21:54 ◼ ► And that presumably, when you do that, uh, you're going to default to a typing experience, uh, with an interface that says search or ask with the search bar that appears when you swipe down from the top center of the screen.
00:22:12 ◼ ► And, of course, depending on what you're asking, you're going to get, you know, the, the, the fancy, uh, Gemini version that powers Apple intelligence.
00:22:31 ◼ ► Uh, uh, essentially I can imagine like thumbnail, fancy thumbnail previews of, uh, that are themed after, you know, weather results, web results, calendar events, task manager results.
00:22:44 ◼ ► Um, essentially like if I were to guess, like this is based on widget kit, uh, UI elements that can now live inside rich results in Siri triggered from the dynamic island.
00:22:56 ◼ ► And, uh, supposedly Siri will be able to, to, to, to be better at dealing with that compared to what it is today in iOS 26.
00:23:14 ◼ ► And lastly, there's going to be a standalone Siri app that is going to be a check, a more traditional chat bot experience where, um, in theory, again,
00:23:25 ◼ ► you will be able to persist some of those conversations and continue some of those conversations.
00:23:29 ◼ ► And you will have, according to the report, this grid view of your previous chats and you can resume them.
00:23:36 ◼ ► You can ask for more information, you know, essentially what you can do with JGPT, Cloud, Gemini, but in a more native Siri fashion.
00:23:44 ◼ ► Um, this sounds very exciting to me, not just because it's, it sounds like Apple may be finally getting their Siri act together, but also because it seems like it finally
00:23:54 ◼ ► finally unlocks, uh, the kind of system wide search that has been missing from the iPhone forever.
00:24:00 ◼ ► Uh, you never be, you've never been able on the iPhone to invoke search, uh, outside of the home screen or the lock screen.
00:24:12 ◼ ► And it sounds like by using the dynamic island and a new swipe down gesture from the top, uh, from the top center of the screen,
00:24:19 ◼ ► that's going to be their answer to system wide Siri presence without using voice or without using a button.
00:24:26 ◼ ► And it brings it in line with the iPad and the Mac where you can hit spotlight from anywhere, right?
00:24:36 ◼ ► I mean, there were reports a couple of years ago that Apple was really against sort of a chat bot style feature, but like they were wrong.
00:24:46 ◼ ► And I think having this like be system wide and using the dynamic island as sort of a place for it to live.
00:24:57 ◼ ► And, you know, I am curious, like, what does this look like on the iPad and the Mac, uh, in terms of, you know, sort of, is it just going to be up in the, in the menu bar somewhere?
00:25:17 ◼ ► Uh, I always drag it out of there, but it is, uh, I think this is going to be well thought through.
00:25:33 ◼ ► My main concern is that Gemini of all the models that we have, Gemini is Apple has picked the worst one at calling external tools.
00:26:01 ◼ ► It doesn't for that, but it does matter if Apple wants to ship the App Intense thing they showed off two years ago.
00:26:13 ◼ ► Like, are we going to get the, the exact same architecture based on App Intense that Apple pre-announced in 2024?
00:26:23 ◼ ► Or in their intervening time, uh, we're going to get something else like an MCP bridge on device.
00:26:31 ◼ ► And what, and if that's the case, what happens to the developers that have done the work of supporting App Intense for Apple intelligence that never shipped?
00:26:40 ◼ ► Um, I wouldn't be shocked though, to see a scenario where there's going to be Gemini as the general, like chatbot and answering model.
00:26:49 ◼ ► But Apple has, but also to see Apple build something on the side to compensate for tool calling and integrating with iOS apps.
00:27:10 ◼ ► Um, Safari's start page is going to be a bit more organized between favorites, bookmarks, reading list, browsing history.
00:27:25 ◼ ► I think particularly on the iPhone, like it's kind of, I don't know about you, but I just kind of look at it and don't know what to do.
00:27:31 ◼ ► It's like sort of a little overwhelming and to get to history and some other things, you're really like tapping through a bunch of things sometimes.
00:27:42 ◼ ► Um, image playgrounds is going to get a redesign and possibly, this is the interesting part to me, possibly upgraded models to make images created, uh, to be more lifelike.
00:27:52 ◼ ► You know, there's, you know, there's, there's this thing, a little sidebar people, uh, it has been, it has been said like, oh, um, Apple not investing in AI models is actually genius because they're just going to be able to use somebody else's.
00:28:10 ◼ ► And if these companies collapse at some point, then they can just go in and buy the parts like, you know, at, at discounted prices.
00:28:19 ◼ ► Apple may have backed into that position or been backed into that position, but that wasn't the plan.
00:28:32 ◼ ► Like one thing that I like about image playgrounds is that you can't make lifelike images in it.
00:28:40 ◼ ► Like it's, it's a goofy system and like the, the, the artwork it makes is weird, but very clearly like I'm not making deep fakes, uh, Federico using windows with image playgrounds.
00:28:52 ◼ ► And I don't think they're going to go that far, but I'm very curious to see how far down the road they go into making these things.
00:29:00 ◼ ► My guess is it'll be doable, but through Gemini and it's going to be really clear like, Oh, Apple intelligence didn't make this, this other thing made it.
00:29:17 ◼ ► So, uh, Apple is, uh, so the, the German is saying here that, um, in iOS 27, Apple will be tweaking the tab bar again across, uh,
00:29:30 ◼ ► So this is the top bar at the bottom of iPhone apps to combine the search tab with the other tabs.
00:29:40 ◼ ► Uh, if you recall my iOS 26 review, or if you recall liquid glass in general, where they split the search icon in the top bar to be its own standalone entity in the bottom right corner.
00:29:52 ◼ ► Uh, this was the case in, in, in Apple music, in, uh, photos, in, in a bunch of other apps, uh, the word, the main tabs, and then the search tab separate from those.
00:30:08 ◼ ► And to, uh, and I believe this to be true because in iOS 26.5, if I'm not mistaken, Apple is already doing this in the app store and in the Apple games app.
00:30:24 ◼ ► Uh, I think, uh, where they unified the search tab with the other tabs again in 26.5, almost as a test of sorts.
00:31:37 ◼ ► Like Todoist, uh, I know has this where there's a big floating plus button that's above the tab
00:31:53 ◼ ► The thing that I am, you know, this is not the first time they've, they've fiddled with
00:31:57 ◼ ► Uh, we also had the thing early on in 26, like in the news app and others, you would start
00:32:06 ◼ ► like it would move over to the left and then you just have one icon and then it would come
00:32:18 ◼ ► I think, uh, German also mentions that there's going to be a new animation, uh, for when a user
00:32:25 ◼ ► activates the key, the onscreen keyboard, a new animation will show the keys sliding up from
00:32:46 ◼ ► So I'm guessing the German is saying that there's a new animation because right now there is the
00:33:06 ◼ ► Uh, unless I don't know, there's like, uh, all the keys, you know, flying separately and then
00:33:18 ◼ ► And, uh, lastly, uh, there's going to be undo and redo controls when customizing the home
00:33:34 ◼ ► Uh, customizing the iPhone home screen and getting the layout just right continues to be something
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00:36:33 ◼ ► Uh, they previewed a bunch of announcements concerning Android, Gemini, uh, and Google books.
00:36:50 ◼ ► Do you remember back in the day that getting a, you had to be like, I don't think it was
00:37:15 ◼ ► They are sort of above Chromebooks, I think, in terms of features and price points, certainly.
00:37:46 ◼ ► You know, nothing really says screams confidence, like not having a name for the thing you're
00:38:07 ◼ ► And it will certainly be a lot like Chrome OS and it will certainly, they will run Android
00:38:27 ◼ ► Stuff that we take for granted on the sort of the Apple side of things, but something that
00:38:38 ◼ ► Google books are the first laptops designed from the ground up for Gemini intelligence to
00:39:08 ◼ ► And it had on the lid, there's a couple inches across, but very thin, this little light bar
00:39:17 ◼ ► And it was, as far as I know, it was just like on this and maybe like one other product.
00:39:23 ◼ ► It did not take off in terms of an industrial design, you know, sort of piece for Google,
00:39:57 ◼ ► I think, so the idea behind the magic pointer is that you shake the cursor and, uh, that instantly
00:40:04 ◼ ► triggers the Gemini intelligence, which is, seems to be their new name for Gemini integration
00:40:10 ◼ ► in the operating system, kind of like Apple intelligence, but this one is called Gemini
00:40:14 ◼ ► Um, the idea being that you shake the cursor and the Gemini comes up and allows you to ask
00:40:29 ◼ ► Uh, which I think is a really, I think it's an interesting idea for AI integration on desktop
00:40:36 ◼ ► to almost offer like this proactive assistance, uh, that is contextual to what's happening on
00:40:46 ◼ ► I think it's a, like you can, for example, select some text or, or compare like, uh, two
00:40:59 ◼ ► For example, if you're browsing the web, you can select a bunch of them and then you can
00:41:02 ◼ ► say, uh, combine these two into a, uh, like a poster or you can, you know, select a song
00:41:20 ◼ ► me that it's the equivalent to the circle to draw that they have on touchscreens for Gemini
00:41:39 ◼ ► So they're bringing, they're, they're making a bet on what they call generative UI, which
00:41:46 ◼ ► is the idea of, instead of pre-building dozens of predefined widgets, you can just create your
00:41:55 ◼ ► Uh, so for example, you can say, uh, I want to make a custom widget for my upcoming trip to
00:42:01 ◼ ► WWDC and it, it, it, it's got to show my, uh, flight information directions for the hotel
00:42:13 ◼ ► And Gemini will pull in those data points from Gmail, Google calendar, and I don't know, Google
00:42:23 ◼ ► not, uh, but it will create a custom widget that does not exist by default on the system.
00:42:38 ◼ ► Uh, what we discussed before with Apple is more like traditional customization, whereas this
00:42:48 ◼ ► The idea being that if a piece of UI does not exist, you can sort of will it into existence
00:43:05 ◼ ► Like, are all these widgets going to look the same because they're all based on the same
00:43:30 ◼ ► They have the right ideas, but I want to see Google commit to this long term because Google
00:43:39 ◼ ► So interesting, but we'll see, which is, uh, I think you can, you can summarize any Google
00:43:55 ◼ ► And that's one thing if it's like a sort of a on the side web service that not many people
00:44:02 ◼ ► use, but if you go buy a $1,200 laptop and you expect these things to work for the long
00:44:13 ◼ ► Um, you, you are making, or at least should be making some sort of, uh, agreement with your
00:44:33 ◼ ► It's hard to believe, especially with around IO and the announcements they've made at IO
00:44:43 ◼ ► That's why the BBC a couple of years ago stands out so much because Apple historically, generally
00:44:53 ◼ ► And then they made a bunch of promises about Apple intelligence that still haven't come
00:45:01 ◼ ► Um, but yeah, when you bundle a bunch of it into a laptop, you're like, that's a, that's
00:45:07 ◼ ► a bit of a commitment that feels different to me than just, Hey, there's this web tool we're
00:45:19 ◼ ► I think Google, I think about like the Android ecosystem, they are sort of stranded without
00:45:30 ◼ ► Like, again, we enjoy these things on the Mac and a lot of Google stuff shows up on the web,
00:45:34 ◼ ► but if they can integrate this really well and like Android apps are just there and they
00:45:40 ◼ ► work and this is very interesting, but the, the proof is going to be year one, two, three
00:46:07 ◼ ► Mercury weather is a thoughtfully designed weather app that shows you all the essential
00:46:14 ◼ ► It has a gorgeous colorful interface that dynamically adapts to the weather conditions.
00:46:19 ◼ ► So if it's a nice sunny day, like it is today for me, I get a nice warm orange palette, but
00:46:25 ◼ ► if it's cold and gross outside, you're going to get icy tones or a deep blue on a rainy night.
00:46:32 ◼ ► Mercury uses a glanceable chart layout to present the hourly and daily forecast in a way that feels
00:46:43 ◼ ► Mercury's trip forecast feature automatically shows the weather at your destination right in
00:47:12 ◼ ► And when the weather gets serious, Mercury offers storm and hurricane tracking with maps,
00:47:20 ◼ ► Plus widgets so you can keep tabs on a specific storm or the closest one right from your home
00:47:26 ◼ ► Mercury Weather's gorgeous interface makes it a delight to check the weather every day, even
00:47:41 ◼ ► You can download it and use the standard features for free or upgrade to Mercury Premium to unlock
00:49:35 ◼ ► So he's been launching websites, and I think Mike will soon get a niche to either launch
00:49:47 ◼ ► So my prediction is that Mike will launch at least one new website that he designed and created
00:50:13 ◼ ► And, you know, every once in a while he mentions that he likes using Claude co-work, and I think
00:50:22 ◼ ► And I think Mike at some point will go in and we'll have an idea for a new website, and
00:50:27 ◼ ► we'll do it all with Claude, the design, the development, and it will launch the website
00:50:53 ◼ ► So I was, I was debating whether it's going to be like, like a section of the enthusiast.
00:51:01 ◼ ► Like, like I could see Mike put together like some kind of gallery of things he likes and
00:51:14 ◼ ► Like he wants to put together a gallery of products or people or websites that he likes
00:51:27 ◼ ► It kind of sucks that he cannot listen to this because that could have been a nice idea.
00:52:16 ◼ ► So it's kind of similar to what I have in my number three, which makes me wonder if I got
00:52:28 ◼ ► My prediction was going to be Mike will purchase both an iPhone fold and an iPhone 18 pro.
00:53:08 ◼ ► I don't think he's going to use the foldable as his daily because of the camera and he's
00:53:34 ◼ ► So there's a rumor that Oasis is going to take a pause, uh, this year from live touring.
00:53:40 ◼ ► I don't know if you've seen Steven, but the, I don't know if you know, actually that the
00:53:55 ◼ ► Shot and put together by the, if I'm not mistaken, the director of Peaky Blinders, the TV show.
00:54:10 ◼ ► I remember actually when I went to Wembley to see Oasis with a friend of the show, Jeremy
00:54:14 ◼ ► Burge, there were signs telling you that, you know, you were basically waiving your rights
00:54:46 ◼ ► And this is a big deal, not just because it's like a bunch of live footage with exclusive
00:54:51 ◼ ► access to backstage and the stage itself, but it'll feature exclusive footage of the Gallagher
00:54:59 ◼ ► brothers together leading up to the reunion, including their first joint interview in 25 years.
00:55:14 ◼ ► They always had this like a rivalry, like sibling rivalry thing going on, uh, throughout the
00:55:21 ◼ ► And then they got into this huge fight in, uh, just before a concert in Paris in 2009, supposedly
00:55:31 ◼ ► So it was, it was a whole thing split and they stayed split and they went on to have solo
00:55:54 ◼ ► There's going to be the documentary and the rumors are saying that at the end of the documentary,
00:56:00 ◼ ► there's like in the credits or something, there's going to be the official announcement
00:56:23 ◼ ► And, uh, obviously Mike couldn't come in 25, uh, like Sophia was very little and I understand
00:56:30 ◼ ► why he didn't feel like he was able to travel or go to a concert, but I think in 2027, Sophia
00:56:46 ◼ ► So to grade this in May, 2027, uh, either there's going to be dates in that Mike has already
00:57:18 ◼ ► I mean, he, uh, he smashed, he may come back next week and say, I, I dropped my, my phone
00:58:21 ◼ ► Either Sonos will officially, I don't want to say cease to exist, but like maybe they'll
00:58:37 ◼ ► Or the more likely scenario, Mike will fall in love with whatever Apple has in store for
00:58:48 ◼ ► And he will make an informed decision to abandon the Sonos ecosystem and embrace the HomePod
00:58:56 ◼ ► Now, the big question mark here for me is the soundbar because I think that I know that
00:59:14 ◼ ► If Mike will say within the next 12 months, I think I'm going to progressively abandon the
00:59:23 ◼ ► I think it's going to be the HomePod, especially if they come up with one that has a screen.
00:59:27 ◼ ► I could also see a scenario in which Mike decides to embrace because of AI, maybe the Google
00:59:37 ◼ ► But I think there's a chance that it will say, I think I've decided that I got to move away
01:01:03 ◼ ► It's going to be expensive and he's going to have some sadness about it, but he's definitely
01:01:39 ◼ ► I think it's going to, I think it's going to set up the steam machine at home to play indie
01:01:50 ◼ ► And I mean, indie games, colorful, simple pixel art style indie games are perfect for that.
01:02:29 ◼ ► I think they're going to be specced, like even to get in the doors and be a pretty high
01:02:34 ◼ ► I think there may be some, there may be some, uh, wishy-washiness here, but I think he's
01:02:52 ◼ ► Steven, I said, uh, number one, Mike will launch at least one new website that he designed
01:03:10 ◼ ► Steven said, number one, Mike will buy a folding phone, a folding iPhone, but he will not use
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