Connected

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00:00:08 ◼   ► From Relay FM, this is Connected, episode 431.

00:00:12 ◼   ► Happy New Year! It's time for the Rickies.

00:00:15 ◼   ► This episode is brought to you by ExpressVPN and Hover.

00:00:18 ◼   ► My name is Myke Hurley and I have the pleasure of introducing Federico Vittucci.

00:00:22 ◼   ► Hello Myke, and Happy New Year.

00:00:24 ◼   ► Or...

00:00:25 ◼   ► Why, thank you.

00:00:26 ◼   ► Buonanno.

00:00:27 ◼   ► Oh, thank you.

00:00:28 ◼   ► It's also my pleasure to introduce our other friend

00:00:32 ◼   ► from America, Mr. Steven Hackett.

00:00:34 ◼   ► Hello, Steven, happy new year.

00:00:35 ◼   ► - Happy new year, guys.

00:00:36 ◼   ► - How would you say it in Tennessee?

00:00:40 ◼   ► - Happy new year, y'all.

00:00:41 ◼   ► - Okay, there you go.

00:00:42 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:00:43 ◼   ► It's exactly what I wanted.

00:00:46 ◼   ► (sighs)

00:00:47 ◼   ► - Well, we are here.

00:00:49 ◼   ► The world has made it around the sun one more time.

00:00:52 ◼   ► - Not just barely, but yeah, seems like it.

00:00:55 ◼   ► - So this is our annual predictions episode.

00:00:58 ◼   ► We're gonna do two things in this episode.

00:01:00 ◼   ► We're going to grade our picks we made for 2022.

00:01:04 ◼   ► We have gone through these, we have discussed,

00:01:06 ◼   ► we have scored them, so we'll talk about all that.

00:01:09 ◼   ► And we will be making picks for 2023.

00:01:14 ◼   ► You can follow along at rickys.co and rickys.net.

00:01:18 ◼   ► We have links in the show notes to both of those,

00:01:21 ◼   ► the specific pages for the 2022 picks.

00:01:24 ◼   ► and I'm sure 20, 23 pics will be on those sites very shortly.

00:01:28 ◼   ► We do have some things we need to deal with in the rules,

00:01:33 ◼   ► and my thought was we should just read the rules

00:01:37 ◼   ► and deal with them.

00:01:37 ◼   ► Let's just jump right in.

00:01:38 ◼   ► How does that sound?

00:01:39 ◼   ► - Do you, so here's my question.

00:01:42 ◼   ► 'Cause you know, we so infrequently do rule changes

00:01:45 ◼   ► around here that I think it's probably a good idea

00:01:47 ◼   ► to just refresh our memory.

00:01:50 ◼   ► Do you want to read them?

00:01:53 ◼   ► we wait until you've read them and then we address

00:01:55 ◼   ► or discuss the rule changes or do you want us to stop you

00:01:59 ◼   ► or do you want to stop at points to address them?

00:02:02 ◼   ► How would you like to do it as the reader of the rules?

00:02:04 ◼   ► - Let me read the entire thing 'cause I think it

00:02:08 ◼   ► is its own complete work and then we can go back in.

00:02:11 ◼   ► It's one very specific issue, I think.

00:02:14 ◼   ► - Yeah, okay.

00:02:15 ◼   ► But it's a pretty important one.

00:02:17 ◼   ► - It is, but I think it's just one thing.

00:02:20 ◼   ► I read through them again last night.

00:02:21 ◼   ► I don't think there's any other things

00:02:22 ◼   ► we need to deal with. So please stand. Okay, for the reading of the rules. I'm doing it.

00:02:26 ◼   ► The rookies is a game connected hosts play before Apple keynotes in the beginning of

00:02:31 ◼   ► a new year trying to predict future events. It is made up of three rounds. Each host makes

00:02:36 ◼   ► two regular picks followed by a risky pick. There are two types of rookies, annual rookies,

00:02:42 ◼   ► which are playing today and keynote rookies. The winner of the annual rookies is named

00:02:46 ◼   ► the annual chairman and retains the rights to the corresponding Twitter account for the

00:02:50 ◼   ► full year. That's what we have to deal with. This position is awarded every

00:02:54 ◼   ► January. Hello! It's January. The keynote rookies winner is named the keynote

00:02:59 ◼   ► chairman and retains the right to the corresponding Twitter account until the

00:03:02 ◼   ► next keynote is held. After the rookies, the hosts then play a game called the

00:03:07 ◼   ► flexies. These two games are separate but related. Oh, I had you standing for the

00:03:11 ◼   ► preamble. I'm sorry. Please stand for the reading of the rules. Please remain

00:03:14 ◼   ► standing. Oh, wait. So I have sat down. I've sat back down again. Sit down and then

00:03:18 ◼   ► Stand back up.

00:03:19 ◼   ► I'm sorry.

00:03:20 ◼   ► I'm back up now.

00:03:21 ◼   ► Okay, well this is exercise.

00:03:23 ◼   ► Yes, I'm sorry.

00:03:30 ◼   ► Correct regular picks are awarded one point.

00:03:33 ◼   ► The language used for regular picks must be finalized and agreed upon during recording,

00:03:38 ◼   ► and no partial points may be awarded.

00:03:41 ◼   ► Correct risky picks are worth two points, but wrong ones would cause a point to be deducted

00:03:45 ◼   ► from the host total.

00:03:47 ◼   ► must have been approved as "risky" by the two other hosts before the start of the game.

00:03:52 ◼   ► A pick cannot be named risky if it has been previously rumored by publications of record

00:03:57 ◼   ► 9-5 Mac or MacRumors.

00:04:03 ◼   ► Picks made for keynote rookies cannot be reused by the host who made them for the next keynote.

00:04:08 ◼   ► The annual rookies have their own subset of rules.

00:04:12 ◼   ► Once a host chooses something as an annual pick, they cannot reuse it in that calendar

00:04:17 ◼   ► year.

00:04:18 ◼   ► Additionally, picks may not be used in back-to-back annual rookies by the same host.

00:04:24 ◼   ► All hosts are allowed to reuse picks previously made by others.

00:04:28 ◼   ► Scoring is completed during recording and cannot be modified once an episode is complete.

00:04:33 ◼   ► In the event of a tie, dice by PCalc must be used in Relay FM mode to pick a winner.

00:04:39 ◼   ► Jason Snell has a lifetime ban on flipping any coins

00:04:42 ◼   ► in relation to the rookies.

00:04:44 ◼   ► Coin flips by Jason on other podcasts are allowed,

00:04:48 ◼   ► but are frowned upon and subject to public shaming.

00:04:51 ◼   ► For the keynote rookies, the scoring window

00:04:56 ◼   ► starts when the event begins and closes

00:04:58 ◼   ► when the picks are scored.

00:04:59 ◼   ► Any information used in scoring must be publicly verifiable

00:05:02 ◼   ► at the time of recording.

00:05:03 ◼   ► The order of picks is set by previous performance.

00:05:05 ◼   ► The winner of the previous associated game goes first.

00:05:09 ◼   ► The previous loser goes last.

00:05:12 ◼   ► Winners will be recognized during the closing ceremonies.

00:05:16 ◼   ► As a reminder, I am the current annual chairman

00:05:19 ◼   ► and Federico is the current keynote chairman.

00:05:22 ◼   ► Past results can be seen at rickys.co and rickys.net.

00:05:25 ◼   ► Those sites also have pages about managing

00:05:27 ◼   ► your own scorekeeping at home.

00:05:29 ◼   ► Please be seated.

00:05:30 ◼   ► - I am set.

00:05:33 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:05:34 ◼   ► We have an obvious problem here.

00:05:35 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:05:36 ◼   ► - We all left Twitter.

00:05:38 ◼   ► - Yeah, yeah.

00:05:39 ◼   ► And the prize is use of special Twitter accounts.

00:05:42 ◼   ► - Well.

00:05:43 ◼   ► - So I don't know, the floor is open to debate.

00:05:47 ◼   ► - Well I think the prize changed

00:05:49 ◼   ► when the trophies were introduced.

00:05:50 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:05:51 ◼   ► - 'Cause when the trophies were introduced,

00:05:53 ◼   ► I didn't care about the Twitter account anymore.

00:05:55 ◼   ► I just liked having a trophy,

00:05:58 ◼   ► and the trophy would accurately update.

00:06:00 ◼   ► So I think we can just remove that line,

00:06:04 ◼   ► just name the annual chairman,

00:06:07 ◼   ► and blank, and then just that's it.

00:06:08 ◼   ► - I agree, but I'm just gonna throw it up there.

00:06:12 ◼   ► I think down the line,

00:06:14 ◼   ► there should be a chairman Mastodon instance.

00:06:19 ◼   ► - Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:06:23 ◼   ► Now, now, now, now this is tantalizing.

00:06:27 ◼   ► - Chairman, plural, dot social or something.

00:06:31 ◼   ► - Oh, I like it.

00:06:33 ◼   ► And one of us gets kicked out of the instance.

00:06:36 ◼   ► - Yes, yes.

00:06:37 ◼   ► if they are not holding a...

00:06:40 ◼   ► - Well, that can be a project for future us.

00:06:42 ◼   ► - For now, I would say we removed that line,

00:06:48 ◼   ► but we tabled the Mastodon instance discussion

00:06:53 ◼   ► for future debate.

00:06:55 ◼   ► - It's like, it's like, it's just the three of us

00:06:59 ◼   ► and we cycle through this part of the instance and we isn't.

00:07:03 ◼   ► - Yeah. - Yeah.

00:07:04 ◼   ► - I think it's a great idea, but...

00:07:06 ◼   ► - Okay. - We'll see how that works.

00:07:08 ◼   ► - So I've removed the Twitter references.

00:07:10 ◼   ► Let me reread those two bullets for you.

00:07:13 ◼   ► The winner of the annual Ricky's

00:07:14 ◼   ► is named the annual chairman.

00:07:16 ◼   ► This position is awarded every January.

00:07:19 ◼   ► The keynote Ricky's winner is named the keynote chairman.

00:07:22 ◼   ► And then I guess the position is held

00:07:24 ◼   ► or until the next keynote.

00:07:26 ◼   ► - Yeah, so they match up.

00:07:28 ◼   ► - This position is held until the next keynote.

00:07:32 ◼   ► - The next keynote.

00:07:33 ◼   ► - Okay, relatively straightforward.

00:07:35 ◼   ► - That's nice and nice and hand like tidy.

00:07:38 ◼   ► - Yeah, that feels good.

00:07:39 ◼   ► - Well, until chairman.social's made,

00:07:42 ◼   ► it's like a whole other thing.

00:07:44 ◼   ► - So we have gone through, like I said,

00:07:47 ◼   ► and we have graded our scores.

00:07:52 ◼   ► And last time I had won, so my picks were first.

00:07:57 ◼   ► So we will start grading round one right after this break.

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00:09:35 ◼   ► Round one.

00:09:37 ◼   ► I said that in 2022,

00:09:40 ◼   ► the 11 inch iPad Pro would get a mini LED display.

00:09:44 ◼   ► - No, it didn't, did it?

00:09:45 ◼   ► Did not get one of those.

00:09:47 ◼   ► - I don't understand.

00:09:49 ◼   ► There's a lot of iPad stuff in this document.

00:09:51 ◼   ► And the thing that, like,

00:09:54 ◼   ► if the iPad Pro had gotten the OLED,

00:09:56 ◼   ► A, I would have gotten the point,

00:09:58 ◼   ► or mini LED, I guess,

00:10:00 ◼   ► some new screen to match the 12 inch.

00:10:02 ◼   ► It also would have helped separate the 10th Gen

00:10:05 ◼   ► iPad Air 11 inch iPad Pro confusion

00:10:08 ◼   ► in the middle of the lineup.

00:10:09 ◼   ► It really blows my mind this didn't happen.

00:10:12 ◼   ► - No, they messed up.

00:10:13 ◼   ► - They did.

00:10:14 ◼   ► - Something went wrong.

00:10:15 ◼   ► 'Cause it doesn't make any sense, right?

00:10:17 ◼   ► Like it doesn't make any sense

00:10:19 ◼   ► why they would, like,

00:10:21 ◼   ► why they just didn't do anything, right?

00:10:24 ◼   ► Like, yeah, they messed up.

00:10:27 ◼   ► Something went wrong.

00:10:27 ◼   ► - Yeah, I have no idea.

00:10:28 ◼   ► Like we talked about this before, the iPad lineup is all kinds of confusing at the moment.

00:10:35 ◼   ► No matter where you look, it's confusing in the iPad Pro sizes and updates.

00:10:39 ◼   ► It's confusing in the base model iPad in the sort of this confusion that you have in the

00:10:47 ◼   ► 11-inch range of iPads.

00:10:50 ◼   ► It's confusing in the accessories, in the placement of the front-facing camera, and

00:10:55 ◼   ► 11-inch iPad Pro I think is the probably the worst offender of all of these iPads. Like

00:11:00 ◼   ► it's sort of like an iPad Air but just barely better, but not better in the way that you

00:11:05 ◼   ► would expect it to be better. So I continue to think, and I believe that Steven agrees

00:11:12 ◼   ► with me, we'll talk about it later, that this iPad has no reason to exist anymore in this

00:11:17 ◼   ► current state. But yeah, we'll see.

00:11:21 ◼   ► Yeah, it's a mess. It really is.

00:11:24 ◼   ► All right.

00:11:25 ◼   ► Federico, you were in second place.

00:11:27 ◼   ► What was your round one pick?

00:11:28 ◼   ► My round one pick was at least one AirPods model

00:11:32 ◼   ► will support lossless music playback by the end of 2022.

00:11:37 ◼   ► Now, unless we're recording this slightly in advance,

00:11:42 ◼   ► unless in the next three days,

00:11:44 ◼   ► Apple releases a set of AirPods

00:11:48 ◼   ► that support lossless music playback.

00:11:52 ◼   ► I don't get this point.

00:11:54 ◼   ► I think at the time, my assumption was that we were going to get a revision

00:11:58 ◼   ► of the AirPods Max within the year.

00:12:01 ◼   ► Or even the AirPods Pro, right?

00:12:04 ◼   ► And they have that extra bandwidth.

00:12:06 ◼   ► And I also, yeah, we talked about the AirPods Pro, a second gen revision,

00:12:10 ◼   ► maybe having like improvements to the wireless technology,

00:12:14 ◼   ► able to support natively support lossless playback. But no, it didn't happen. So no

00:12:22 ◼   ► point.

00:12:23 ◼   ► It's a bummer. Isn't there a rumor that the AirPods Pro 2 may be able to do like a higher

00:12:28 ◼   ► bit rate through a firmware update or something?

00:12:30 ◼   ► Yeah, it's a rumor. It's a rumor that it's been going around for the past few weeks,

00:12:34 ◼   ► I think. But it's all speculation. It's, it's, it's not a thing that exists at the moment.

00:12:40 ◼   ► No, no, because it was, I don't remember exactly the numbers or whatever, but they spoke about

00:12:46 ◼   ► the fact that it had, you know, higher, was it higher, what was the higher frequency?

00:12:52 ◼   ► Additional bandwidth? I forget. It was kind of weird. It was like, we're mentioning this

00:12:58 ◼   ► thing but not what it's good for? It's like, hmm, there's something else there.

00:13:03 ◼   ► Yeah, it was also weird that they even mentioned it. What's the point of mentioning that? But

00:13:08 ◼   ► Yeah, so who knows? I don't know what's going on there.

00:13:11 ◼   ► My pick was...

00:13:12 ◼   ► Apple releases a new MacBook Air that comes with some color options

00:13:17 ◼   ► not previously available in this product line.

00:13:19 ◼   ► [bell rings]

00:13:21 ◼   ► Got it.

00:13:22 ◼   ► Where's the bell?

00:13:23 ◼   ► I rang it! You don't hear it through Zoom.

00:13:26 ◼   ► Well, that's not my fault.

00:13:27 ◼   ► Every time.

00:13:28 ◼   ► You gotta bring the bell right up to the microphone

00:13:31 ◼   ► and hum while you're doing it so I can hear it, you know?

00:13:33 ◼   ► [bell rings]

00:13:34 ◼   ► Thank you! See, I heard it!

00:13:35 ◼   ► See, that's what I need.

00:13:36 ◼   ► so then I'll know that you've rung the bell for me because that was correct. Midnight and Starlight

00:13:41 ◼   ► were added to the MacBook Airline for the M2. Well this is a nice point. It's very nice points.

00:13:47 ◼   ► One point in the old pocket for Mykey boy. How are you two doing? Steven, usually you do this,

00:13:54 ◼   ► I'd like you to do it now. At the end of round one, Steven, could you give us a points?

00:13:59 ◼   ► Oh, is this the attitude you're gonna have?

00:14:02 ◼   ► I have zero.

00:14:04 ◼   ► Federico has zero.

00:14:05 ◼   ► Myke Hurley has one.

00:14:07 ◼   ► Oh, that's good.

00:14:08 ◼   ► That's a good feeling.

00:14:09 ◼   ► You're gonna be insufferable.

00:14:13 ◼   ► I know.

00:14:14 ◼   ► Well, who knows?

00:14:15 ◼   ► Let's see if I win first.

00:14:16 ◼   ► Well, we know.

00:14:17 ◼   ► Round two.

00:14:20 ◼   ► Round two.

00:14:22 ◼   ► Boy, did I get this wrong.

00:14:24 ◼   ► The iPad's external display support goes unchanged.

00:14:27 ◼   ► Well...

00:14:28 ◼   ► I believe they call this a buzzkill pick. Yeah, well it's the exact opposite of that.

00:14:33 ◼   ► So yeah, it got a whole new system that barely works, but it's a whole new system.

00:14:38 ◼   ► It went changed, in fact. Took a while. Took a while to get it right.

00:14:45 ◼   ► Have they gotten it right? Well, that's the... Well, it took a while to get it working,

00:14:52 ◼   ► let's say, not to get it right. But yeah, that's not a point.

00:14:56 ◼   ► Not a point.

00:14:57 ◼   ► My second regular pick was the next generation Apple Watch will have some kind of body temperature sensor.

00:15:07 ◼   ► Mmm.

00:15:08 ◼   ► Thank you.

00:15:09 ◼   ► Thank you.

00:15:10 ◼   ► We could hear it that time.

00:15:11 ◼   ► That's a point.

00:15:12 ◼   ► And yeah, the Apple Watch Series 8.

00:15:15 ◼   ► Is that 8?

00:15:16 ◼   ► 8.

00:15:17 ◼   ► 8, but the OS is 9, right?

00:15:19 ◼   ► I always get confused.

00:15:21 ◼   ► It's watch OS 9, but watch 8.

00:15:24 ◼   ► - They gotta get rid of these numbers in all their products.

00:15:27 ◼   ► - Yeah, or just bump it up a version

00:15:31 ◼   ► and have parity between the iPhones and the OS numbers.

00:15:36 ◼   ► Anyway, there's the temperature,

00:15:40 ◼   ► the wrist temperature sensor,

00:15:42 ◼   ► you cannot use it to check if you have a fever or something,

00:15:46 ◼   ► but it's there and it works.

00:15:47 ◼   ► - Does the Ultra have this as well?

00:15:49 ◼   ► - I think so.

00:15:50 ◼   ► - I think it does, yeah.

00:15:53 ◼   ► But yeah, it's there, it's a risk temperature

00:15:55 ◼   ► and it establishes a baseline.

00:15:58 ◼   ► You can find it in health.

00:15:59 ◼   ► It's mostly designed for women's health

00:16:02 ◼   ► and keeping track of your ovulation estimates

00:16:04 ◼   ► and all that kind of stuff.

00:16:06 ◼   ► But physically, the sensor is there.

00:16:09 ◼   ► - My second pick was,

00:16:10 ◼   ► there will be no iPhone 14 for 5.4 inch display.

00:16:14 ◼   ► Hmm.

00:16:15 ◼   ► - Thank you.

00:16:17 ◼   ► - I like how much buildup there is in the home before you.

00:16:20 ◼   ► - Yeah, because it's like,

00:16:22 ◼   ► Do I want to give him his point or not?

00:16:24 ◼   ► It's like he's skeptical about it,

00:16:25 ◼   ► and then he rings the bell.

00:16:26 ◼   ► (humming)

00:16:29 ◼   ► - Yep, and we can say goodbye to the iPhone mini.

00:16:31 ◼   ► That's what that pic was.

00:16:33 ◼   ► But I was being very particular there.

00:16:36 ◼   ► - And just today, there's a report that Apple is quote,

00:16:38 ◼   ► "Very concerned about how the 14 Plus is selling."

00:16:41 ◼   ► So who knows what's happening there?

00:16:44 ◼   ► - Maybe it just turns out that that 14,

00:16:46 ◼   ► like that like fourth phone spot is just not a good spot.

00:16:51 ◼   ► Maybe it's just cursed, you know?

00:16:54 ◼   ► It could be.

00:16:55 ◼   ► It's cursed.

00:16:56 ◼   ► I mean, historically, this kind of hole that Apple fills of a phone has been cursed.

00:17:02 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:17:03 ◼   ► Right?

00:17:04 ◼   ► Like it's not meant to exist.

00:17:05 ◼   ► The iPhone 8 is one of them.

00:17:06 ◼   ► Oh, gosh.

00:17:07 ◼   ► The iPhone 8.

00:17:08 ◼   ► The 5C is one of them.

00:17:09 ◼   ► Just cursed.

00:17:10 ◼   ► Maybe the universe just doesn't want it.

00:17:12 ◼   ► Like that fourth phone is not supposed to exist.

00:17:16 ◼   ► No.

00:17:17 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:17:18 ◼   ► It could be.

00:17:20 ◼   ► At the end of round two, I have zero points.

00:17:25 ◼   ► Federico has one point and Michael has two points.

00:17:30 ◼   ► - Can still all change here.

00:17:32 ◼   ► - It could all change 'cause we're now moving

00:17:34 ◼   ► into the risky picks for 2022.

00:17:37 ◼   ► Mine was Apple, parenthetical,

00:17:40 ◼   ► not in a direct response to a legal case,

00:17:43 ◼   ► will allow developers to use payment methods

00:17:45 ◼   ► outside of the App Store.

00:17:48 ◼   ► - Oh yay.

00:17:49 ◼   ► You know, it's just like you have so much faith, right?

00:17:52 ◼   ► Like you.

00:17:53 ◼   ► - Well, I used to, 2022 beat it out of me.

00:17:55 ◼   ► - Beat that out of you, goodbye.

00:17:58 ◼   ► - There are some specific examples

00:18:00 ◼   ► where developers can do this,

00:18:01 ◼   ► but it's because either companies or I think mostly

00:18:06 ◼   ► or entirely governments sued them

00:18:09 ◼   ► or changed laws to make it possible.

00:18:11 ◼   ► They did not do it of their own free will,

00:18:13 ◼   ► so I do not get a point.

00:18:15 ◼   ► - My risky pick.

00:18:16 ◼   ► Well, before I, before I read the text of the risky pick, I'm asking you humbly,

00:18:20 ◼   ► humbly to appreciate how imaginative and creative I was with it.

00:18:26 ◼   ► Keep that in mind.

00:18:30 ◼   ► Fellow members of the jury,

00:18:32 ◼   ► as you listen to the texts of this risky pick, just us, there's no jury.

00:18:37 ◼   ► I mean, we probably are the jury, but that's not good for you. Okay.

00:18:42 ◼   ► iOS 16 brings major changes for system-wide design customization.

00:18:49 ◼   ► It continues.

00:18:50 ◼   ► Apple will let users choose their app icons

00:18:54 ◼   ► and they will introduce new App Store categories

00:18:58 ◼   ► for wallpaper and/or icon apps.

00:19:03 ◼   ► What the heck was I thinking with this one?

00:19:05 ◼   ► And you were excited about something.

00:19:07 ◼   ► Why?

00:19:09 ◼   ► Well, I think, so the context, I think the context was iOS 15 didn't do anything in terms

00:19:19 ◼   ► of UI customization despite the success of widgets and iOS 14.

00:19:26 ◼   ► You got to think back to last year.

00:19:28 ◼   ► My context was, well, 15 didn't do anything.

00:19:31 ◼   ► That's weird.

00:19:32 ◼   ► 16 will do something and then Apple will have the time to realize how massive of a success

00:19:41 ◼   ► iOS 14 was with the whole home screen aesthetic thing and they will do big changes. There

00:19:48 ◼   ► was also the theory that I had in the episode where I said remember that rumor about wallpaper

00:19:55 ◼   ► packs that we heard a few years ago, maybe that's how Apple brings it back and you will

00:20:01 ◼   ► be able to buy this like, there will be like a wallpaper API and you will be able to download

00:20:08 ◼   ► wallpaper apps from the App Store, which I still think is a good idea, but it didn't

00:20:13 ◼   ► happen.

00:20:14 ◼   ► Obviously, we did get major customization changes, just not the way I was expecting

00:20:19 ◼   ► them.

00:20:20 ◼   ► We got them on the lock screen in a way that is even more than what I hoped Apple would

00:20:25 ◼   ► do on the lock screen though.

00:20:27 ◼   ► We didn't get wallpaper apps.

00:20:30 ◼   ► We didn't get custom icons for whatever you want.

00:20:33 ◼   ► So this pick is risky but wrong.

00:20:38 ◼   ► - Yeah, you were on the right track, right?

00:20:40 ◼   ► That like, surely they're gonna come out

00:20:42 ◼   ► and do some kind of customization features

00:20:46 ◼   ► because it was so popular when the widgets came out.

00:20:50 ◼   ► But you're on the wrong area.

00:20:54 ◼   ► It was wallpapers, but people could,

00:20:56 ◼   ► You know, you can't just sell them or whatever.

00:20:59 ◼   ► I will similarly ask to be considered my creativity

00:21:04 ◼   ► and my boldness in my risky pick,

00:21:09 ◼   ► which was the new Mac Pro will be smaller,

00:21:12 ◼   ► not a cube shape,

00:21:13 ◼   ► feature no support for the current MPX modules,

00:21:15 ◼   ► and/or will allow some form of expandability

00:21:19 ◼   ► outside of Thunderbolt.

00:21:20 ◼   ► It will be available in one color.

00:21:22 ◼   ► - This was very specific.

00:21:26 ◼   ► - Yes. - I remember.

00:21:27 ◼   ► - This was, I think when I started my specific picks

00:21:29 ◼   ► or like was really going on the specific pick bandwagon

00:21:32 ◼   ► for the Riskys, because, you know,

00:21:35 ◼   ► sometimes something can feel obvious, so we won't allow it.

00:21:39 ◼   ► But if you just add enough layers in, it becomes risky.

00:21:43 ◼   ► - Right. - And this was one of them.

00:21:44 ◼   ► - We have some of that for 2023, I think too.

00:21:47 ◼   ► - Yeah, we'll see.

00:21:48 ◼   ► - Yeah, I think you, this was, you debuted this strategy

00:21:52 ◼   ► like you were first.

00:21:53 ◼   ► you pioneered this strategy of the multi-layer risky pick where you can...

00:21:59 ◼   ► It hasn't gone well for me yet.

00:22:00 ◼   ► Well, in theory, it's one of the scientific theories that you know it's supposed to be

00:22:06 ◼   ► true, but you still need to prove it out. Like, what is it, string theory or something?

00:22:10 ◼   ► Like in theory, it's supposed to be real and it works. Well, we just, we continue to miss

00:22:16 ◼   ► the evidence that it works. The multi-layer pick is your invention, but we still need

00:22:23 ◼   ► to test it out in practice and we failed in this instance as well because all of our risky

00:22:28 ◼   ► picks for the annual picks were incorrect.

00:22:32 ◼   ► So that means at the end of the regular picks I have minus one point, Federico has zero

00:22:42 ◼   ► points and Myke you have one.

00:22:45 ◼   ► So Myke is the new annual chairman.

00:22:48 ◼   ► Congratulations.

00:22:49 ◼   ► Congratulations.

00:22:50 ◼   ► Thank you.

00:22:51 ◼   ► 2022 was a good year for me with prediction games.

00:22:56 ◼   ► Yeah. Not with other things necessarily.

00:22:59 ◼   ► Not with other things. But with this.

00:23:01 ◼   ► Lots of other things weren't good, but the one thing that was consistently good was this.

00:23:06 ◼   ► Yes. Well, congratulations buddy.

00:23:09 ◼   ► Thank you very much. I would like to demand closing ceremonies.

00:23:12 ◼   ► Okay. Yeah.

00:23:13 ◼   ► Because trophies need to be updated. The trophy has not been updated in a really long time,

00:23:19 ◼   ► because Federico kept winning the keynote.

00:23:23 ◼   ► So there was no point.

00:23:24 ◼   ► So I now have my tricky right here in front of me

00:23:27 ◼   ► and I'm taking out the plastic discs.

00:23:29 ◼   ► I don't know where mine is.

00:23:30 ◼   ► I think it's still in the box.

00:23:32 ◼   ► Well, when you find it, you know,

00:23:35 ◼   ► you're going to have to update it.

00:23:36 ◼   ► So the big circle goes over London.

00:23:39 ◼   ► Oh yeah, you got to--

00:23:39 ◼   ► Oh yeah, I forgot.

00:23:40 ◼   ► There's a whole lot of pieces in here.

00:23:42 ◼   ► So people at home can update their trickies

00:23:46 ◼   ► or their mag trickies as they were

00:23:48 ◼   ► or you can go to websites and stuff and update them.

00:23:52 ◼   ► So I need the big one to go over London.

00:23:55 ◼   ► Stays in Rome.

00:23:57 ◼   ► - It's always sad when you lose an annual chairmanship,

00:24:03 ◼   ► I feel like, 'cause you get it for a whole year

00:24:04 ◼   ► and now I don't even know who I am anymore.

00:24:07 ◼   ► - Yes, see, winning the annual is great

00:24:11 ◼   ► because no one can take that from you.

00:24:15 ◼   ► For a whole year, that's yours, you know?

00:24:17 ◼   ► That's a good, it's good.

00:24:19 ◼   ► - And the keynote one can last like three weeks

00:24:21 ◼   ► if they do like a September and then an October event.

00:24:24 ◼   ► It can be really short.

00:24:26 ◼   ► - And also, you know, if you want the opportunity

00:24:28 ◼   ► to consolidate power like that one time

00:24:30 ◼   ► when I consolidated power for a really long time,

00:24:33 ◼   ► you need this to do that.

00:24:35 ◼   ► So I'm going for that again this year.

00:24:37 ◼   ► - My wooden trophy has been updated.

00:24:39 ◼   ► - Mine is also correctly updated.

00:24:41 ◼   ► When Fedorico finds his, it will also be updated.

00:24:43 ◼   ► Thank you.

00:24:44 ◼   ► Let us now move into the Flexis.

00:24:47 ◼   ► So I have a preamble.

00:24:49 ◼   ► The Flexis is a game held after each edition of the Rookies.

00:24:53 ◼   ► It consists of a series of additional picks

00:24:55 ◼   ► in relation to the upcoming Apple event or year.

00:24:58 ◼   ► Scoring is completed separately from the main game,

00:25:01 ◼   ► but like the Rookies,

00:25:02 ◼   ► the order of picks is set by the results of the previous

00:25:05 ◼   ► game and ties will be broken using dice by Peacock.

00:25:08 ◼   ► Please lie down as the rules are read.

00:25:10 ◼   ► - Oh, I forgot about this part.

00:25:12 ◼   ► Okay.

00:25:13 ◼   ► (dramatic music)

00:25:16 ◼   ► Hosts must make a minimum of five Flexi picks.

00:25:21 ◼   ► Each correct pick is awarded with one point.

00:25:24 ◼   ► Wrong picks do not remove any points

00:25:26 ◼   ► and no partial points may be awarded.

00:25:29 ◼   ► The winner is determined by comparing the percentage

00:25:31 ◼   ► of correct Flexis made by each host.

00:25:34 ◼   ► While there are no Twitter handles on the line

00:25:36 ◼   ► in the Flexis, the winner can use their chosen title

00:25:39 ◼   ► as long as they are the winner.

00:25:41 ◼   ► Federico shall be named Prince Flexi.

00:25:44 ◼   ► Myke has chosen Duke of Flexington,

00:25:46 ◼   ► and Steven is the Attorney General Flexi.

00:25:49 ◼   ► Loser of the Flexis must compensate the winner of the Flexis

00:25:53 ◼   ► by donating to a charity of the winner's choice.

00:25:56 ◼   ► The amount of the donation is $25 per wrong Flexi

00:25:59 ◼   ► made by the loser.

00:26:01 ◼   ► The money must be donated on air.

00:26:04 ◼   ► I am the current winner.

00:26:06 ◼   ► - Wait, is that accurate?

00:26:09 ◼   ► That may not be accurate. - Because in our document,

00:26:11 ◼   ► I think you are the current when it comes to keynotes.

00:26:15 ◼   ► - Yeah, yeah.

00:26:17 ◼   ► - But does that, how does that work?

00:26:19 ◼   ► - Well, hang on, lower in the document

00:26:21 ◼   ► I have a history of all the winners.

00:26:23 ◼   ► The 2021 annual, Ricky, is you won the Flexis.

00:26:29 ◼   ► So you are currently, so, okay, so keynote Flexis.

00:26:34 ◼   ► - So does that mean that like

00:26:36 ◼   ► I've been Duke of Lexington this entire time?

00:26:39 ◼   ► Yeah. And you can be double Duke of Flexington if you get both of them.

00:26:43 ◼   ► Oh, ho ho ho! Okay, I like that!

00:26:47 ◼   ► You can pull off the famous double Duke.

00:26:50 ◼   ► Okay, so now I'm going to request an amendment to the Flexi's rules.

00:26:54 ◼   ► Oh no.

00:26:55 ◼   ► That we need to each have a name for if we are both.

00:26:59 ◼   ► Both what?

00:27:00 ◼   ► So we could be like double Duke of Flexington.

00:27:03 ◼   ► Oh, if you are both the winner of the regular?

00:27:06 ◼   ► Maybe like Crown Prince Flexi?

00:27:09 ◼   ► Oh, it's like, it's like, we should, we should use the, the Pokémon approach, I think.

00:27:14 ◼   ► Oh.

00:27:15 ◼   ► Because it's like an evolution, right?

00:27:17 ◼   ► So if I'm Prince Flexi, well, obviously, Myke, you gotta be Archiduke or something.

00:27:24 ◼   ► Yes, Archiduke of Flexington.

00:27:26 ◼   ► That's good.

00:27:27 ◼   ► That's really good.

00:27:28 ◼   ► I will be King Flexi, right?

00:27:30 ◼   ► I will be King Flexi.

00:27:32 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:27:33 ◼   ► and Steven will be what? US President? President General? President Flexi? President Flexi, right?

00:27:43 ◼   ► Yeah, well, I mean, what's more than AG Flexi? Speaker of the Flexi House? Speaker of the Flexis?

00:27:52 ◼   ► Okay, hang on, I gotta type this up, okay.

00:27:59 ◼   ► Federico Shelby name shall be named Prince flexi and isn't and is known as King flexi when having won both

00:28:05 ◼   ► the keynote and annual games

00:28:08 ◼   ► And uses the name King your King flexington. No, I am

00:28:13 ◼   ► Archduke of flexington. Is that one word Archduke? Yeah, I

00:28:18 ◼   ► Don't know actually

00:28:24 ◼   ► Yeah, when...

00:28:26 ◼   ► Oh, it denotes the rank of in the Holy Roman Empire, which was below that of Emperor or King,

00:28:31 ◼   ► and roughly equal to Grand Duke, but above that of Prince and Duke.

00:28:34 ◼   ► Oh, I want to be...

00:28:35 ◼   ► Alright, so what's above it? So Stephen is the Attorney General of Flexi, and uses the title...

00:28:42 ◼   ► US...

00:28:43 ◼   ► I like Speaker of the Flexi House. You can go with whatever you want, but I think that one's great.

00:28:47 ◼   ► US chain of command. Let's see.

00:28:49 ◼   ► Yes, okay.

00:28:50 ◼   ► Military chain of command. Okay, so we have...

00:28:52 ◼   ► Where's the better one?

00:28:54 ◼   ► Hang on, Attorney General, US presidency,

00:28:59 ◼   ► US president line of succession.

00:29:03 ◼   ► Who's next in the line of succession to the president?

00:29:06 ◼   ► So Attorney General of seven,

00:29:08 ◼   ► Secretary of Defense is number six.

00:29:10 ◼   ► Okay.

00:29:11 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:29:13 ◼   ► Secretary.

00:29:15 ◼   ► The Secretary of Deflects.

00:29:18 ◼   ► Oh my word.

00:29:20 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:29:22 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:29:24 ◼   ► - All right, so let me read these back.

00:29:26 ◼   ► The winner can use their chosen title

00:29:29 ◼   ► as long as they are the winner.

00:29:30 ◼   ► Federico shall be named Prince Flexi

00:29:33 ◼   ► and is known as King Flexi

00:29:34 ◼   ► when having won both the keynote and annual games.

00:29:37 ◼   ► Myke has chosen Duke of Flexington

00:29:39 ◼   ► and uses the name Archduke Flexington when applicable.

00:29:43 ◼   ► Steven is the Attorney General Flexi

00:29:46 ◼   ► and uses the title Secretary of Deflex when applicable.

00:29:51 ◼   ► And what's so good about this is we have continued that Steven has the best name.

00:29:54 ◼   ► Yes. Right. Yes.

00:29:56 ◼   ► This is the best name. A.G. Flex or Secretary of the Flex.

00:30:01 ◼   ► Just to make sure that we are spelling this out. It's D E F L E X. The Flex. Okay. Perfect.

00:30:09 ◼   ► Man, imagine, imagine, imagine if things go so horribly in the US that it's up to the

00:30:15 ◼   ► Secretary of Agriculture to take power.

00:30:20 ◼   ► Things are bad. Things are bad. I mean that could happen. Wasn't there a show about this?

00:30:28 ◼   ► Ah, there was. And it was the agriculture guy? Was it the agriculture guy? It was the

00:30:32 ◼   ► guy from 24. Oh my god, was it designated survivor? Was it? Yeah, wasn't he like agriculture

00:30:39 ◼   ► or something? Wasn't that like the thing? Designated survivor is what the discord is

00:30:43 ◼   ► saying. Oh, but it was education, not agriculture. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. That's, that's, I think

00:30:48 ◼   ► That's even worse, it's number 15, education.

00:30:51 ◼   ► Oh, is it? Okay, yeah.

00:30:52 ◼   ► Secretary of the Flex is just so good.

00:30:55 ◼   ► All right, so let's get back to scoring how we did.

00:31:00 ◼   ► Myke, you were the previous Flexi winner for the annual game,

00:31:06 ◼   ► so you go first.

00:31:08 ◼   ► All right, so Tim Cook says, "Metavas."

00:31:12 ◼   ► (bell dings)

00:31:14 ◼   ► This should have been my risky.

00:31:16 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:31:17 ◼   ► I was feeling it at the time, but it felt too risky.

00:31:21 ◼   ► So I was like, oh, that's a good flexi.

00:31:24 ◼   ► But he said it, he said it at the end of September

00:31:26 ◼   ► in an interview, he said the word metaverse.

00:31:29 ◼   ► - Will you put that link in the show notes for all time?

00:31:31 ◼   ► - Sure will, so it's in there.

00:31:33 ◼   ► - All right, that I am very surprised you got.

00:31:38 ◼   ► And I think if you had come to us as a risky,

00:31:42 ◼   ► I would have given it to you.

00:31:43 ◼   ► Like, yes, you can use it.

00:31:44 ◼   ► The quote was "I'm really not sure the average person can tell you what the metaverse is"

00:31:49 ◼   ► which is a real sick burn.

00:31:50 ◼   ► He's not wrong?

00:31:52 ◼   ► I mean I can't... can anybody?

00:31:55 ◼   ► Does anybody even know?

00:31:57 ◼   ► The metaverse is basically Fortnite, right?

00:31:59 ◼   ► And Roblox or something like it's...

00:32:01 ◼   ► Yeah Roblox more than anything else I think.

00:32:04 ◼   ► But I don't think that's what Facebook wants it to be.

00:32:07 ◼   ► Yeah well...

00:32:08 ◼   ► New AirPods Max.

00:32:11 ◼   ► Bummer.

00:32:12 ◼   ► Somehow no.

00:32:13 ◼   ► Did I get my bell, Steven?

00:32:15 ◼   ► Yeah, hummed and everything.

00:32:17 ◼   ► I didn't hear the hum or the bell.

00:32:19 ◼   ► Steven, can we do that?

00:32:21 ◼   ► I hum and you ring the bell.

00:32:24 ◼   ► Will it work?

00:32:25 ◼   ► No, 'cause it's like noise cancellation just on my channel.

00:32:29 ◼   ► But I welcome you to join in.

00:32:31 ◼   ► Okay, I wanna hum together.

00:32:33 ◼   ► What if we try and all three of us harmonize?

00:32:35 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:32:37 ◼   ► Or humminize.

00:32:39 ◼   ► Yeah, we can humminize.

00:32:41 ◼   ► I like that.

00:32:42 ◼   ► Try some in Steven.

00:32:44 ◼   ► No, oh, we're good now.

00:32:46 ◼   ► Let's do your next pick and then we can do it in real time.

00:32:48 ◼   ► Alright, alright.

00:32:49 ◼   ► A headset will not be unveiled at WWDC.

00:32:52 ◼   ► Hmmmm.

00:32:54 ◼   ► Hmmmm.

00:32:56 ◼   ► Hmmmm.

00:32:58 ◼   ► Hmmmm.

00:32:59 ◼   ► I like this.

00:33:00 ◼   ► Hmmmm.

00:33:01 ◼   ► Did you ever ring the bell?

00:33:02 ◼   ► That took so long!

00:33:03 ◼   ► Alright, okay.

00:33:04 ◼   ► So we got it.

00:33:05 ◼   ► Next time it comes around, we're gonna harmonize and then the bell happens.

00:33:09 ◼   ► Alright.

00:33:10 ◼   ► And iMac Pro is unveiled.

00:33:12 ◼   ► - Mm.

00:33:13 ◼   ► - That was the start of a hum.

00:33:17 ◼   ► - I really wanted to hum, but no.

00:33:19 ◼   ► - That didn't happen, that did not happen.

00:33:21 ◼   ► And then here was my buzzkill.

00:33:23 ◼   ► iPad OS multitasking remains unchanged

00:33:26 ◼   ► from iOS 15's implementation.

00:33:28 ◼   ► - Not a man of faith.

00:33:30 ◼   ► - So I got two out of five.

00:33:33 ◼   ► - Yes, that takes you to 40%.

00:33:35 ◼   ► - 40% ratio, okay.

00:33:37 ◼   ► - Up next are my picks.

00:33:39 ◼   ► - iOS 16 will bring a more bottom of the screen

00:33:43 ◼   ► centric design to at least one additional app.

00:33:47 ◼   ► Yeah, we got books and I got the lock screen.

00:33:55 ◼   ► - Why?

00:33:58 ◼   ► - This is never not gonna be good.

00:34:01 ◼   ► Steven, can this go with the rules

00:34:03 ◼   ► so we remember to do this?

00:34:05 ◼   ► I think you can't codify this connection we have.

00:34:10 ◼   ► I think we're gonna forget.

00:34:14 ◼   ► We'll see.

00:34:15 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah, so books and lock screen.

00:34:18 ◼   ► I still think there should be more.

00:34:19 ◼   ► I still think it's very strange

00:34:21 ◼   ► that basically only Safari and books have it,

00:34:24 ◼   ► but maybe next year's the year.

00:34:26 ◼   ► It's just one a year for the next 15 years.

00:34:29 ◼   ► Oh gosh, yeah.

00:34:30 ◼   ► Okay, from here, it's all downhill.

00:34:33 ◼   ► So I'm just gonna rattle

00:34:35 ◼   ► through my next four that were all wrong. Apple announces a new paid service. Wait a

00:34:40 ◼   ► second. Wait, does the major league soccer thing not count in this? Oh, it does. And

00:34:47 ◼   ► also all done. There's also the, there's also a satellite, the satellite service. You can't

00:34:55 ◼   ► Bring that on us! We weren't ready for the harmonizing.

00:34:58 ◼   ► I thought you were actually thinking.

00:35:00 ◼   ► [laughter]

00:35:05 ◼   ► You cannot just throw that in there.

00:35:07 ◼   ► Sorry. I'm sorry.

00:35:08 ◼   ► You know?

00:35:09 ◼   ► You get this point.

00:35:11 ◼   ► Well, now I went through my next three, which are all wrong.

00:35:13 ◼   ► Okay.

00:35:14 ◼   ► A new home focus device is released.

00:35:17 ◼   ► Oh, wait, wait, wait. Doesn't the Major League Soccer qualify?

00:35:20 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:35:21 ◼   ► [laughter]

00:35:23 ◼   ► The Mac studio is home focused.

00:35:25 ◼   ► No, it's not.

00:35:26 ◼   ► Apple announces a developer kit for its headset.

00:35:29 ◼   ► Well, no, no.

00:35:31 ◼   ► This next one's so stupid.

00:35:33 ◼   ► A more powerful Mac mini is announced,

00:35:35 ◼   ► but is not a quote Mac mini pro.

00:35:38 ◼   ► What did you mean with this?

00:35:40 ◼   ► The Mac studio is this in spirit,

00:35:42 ◼   ► but my pick was about the name

00:35:44 ◼   ► because the name is in quotes.

00:35:45 ◼   ► And I went back and listened.

00:35:46 ◼   ► Okay, it was a name.

00:35:47 ◼   ► My pick was about Mac mini pro being a name.

00:35:50 ◼   ► Anyways, so I didn't get it right.

00:35:51 ◼   ► They're still just the M1 Mac mini

00:35:53 ◼   ► that'll probably come up in next year's picks.

00:35:56 ◼   ► But--

00:35:57 ◼   ► - So you are tied with Myke in ratio.

00:35:59 ◼   ► Should be 40% again.

00:36:00 ◼   ► - Yes, we are both two out of five at 40%.

00:36:04 ◼   ► Now there is strategy in this game,

00:36:06 ◼   ► and this is gonna come out right now

00:36:08 ◼   ► because Federico, you made seven picks.

00:36:10 ◼   ► The rules say you just have to have a minimum of five,

00:36:15 ◼   ► but sometimes you gotta go for the glory.

00:36:17 ◼   ► So let's see how it pans out.

00:36:19 ◼   ► - Always go for the glory.

00:36:20 ◼   ► Well, it didn't.

00:36:22 ◼   ► So...

00:36:24 ◼   ► (laughing)

00:36:26 ◼   ► - It panned out.

00:36:27 ◼   ► - It panned out, yes.

00:36:29 ◼   ► But not the way I want it.

00:36:30 ◼   ► - No gold.

00:36:31 ◼   ► - So number one, Apple stops using the iTunes store app

00:36:36 ◼   ► and moves store content into dedicated apps.

00:36:40 ◼   ► They started doing that,

00:36:41 ◼   ► but the iTunes store is still with us

00:36:43 ◼   ► and it still has sections that are only available

00:36:46 ◼   ► through the iTunes store.

00:36:48 ◼   ► Number two, Apple brings mail extensions to iOS and iPadOS.

00:36:53 ◼   ► They did not do that.

00:36:54 ◼   ► Instead, they brought DriverKit to iPadOS

00:36:58 ◼   ► and nobody is using it.

00:37:00 ◼   ► If you know of a company that is taking advantage

00:37:03 ◼   ► of DriverKit in iPadOS 16, let me know.

00:37:07 ◼   ► I don't think anybody has.

00:37:08 ◼   ► Number three, Apple Notes will borrow some features

00:37:11 ◼   ► from the modern generation of note-taking apps,

00:37:14 ◼   ► like wiki-style links, a quick switcher or nested pages.

00:37:19 ◼   ► Big nope.

00:37:20 ◼   ► Number four, some Mac-only shortcuts

00:37:23 ◼   ► become available on iPhone or iPad.

00:37:26 ◼   ► Would have expected the multitasking ones to be here,

00:37:29 ◼   ► but number five, there are new ways to turn off the alerts

00:37:34 ◼   ► that shortcuts displays constantly,

00:37:36 ◼   ► either confirmation banner

00:37:38 ◼   ► or the notification for an automation.

00:37:42 ◼   ► [HUMMING]

00:37:44 ◼   ► [DING]

00:37:45 ◼   ► [LAUGHTER]

00:37:47 ◼   ► I don't know what we're humming about.

00:37:51 ◼   ► Like, I didn't know this was a thing.

00:37:53 ◼   ► Yeah, you can...

00:37:56 ◼   ► Well, there's a couple of things here.

00:37:59 ◼   ► First, you can disable the confirmation banner for automations.

00:38:02 ◼   ► Like, you can run an automation without the confirmation alert.

00:38:06 ◼   ► And second, new ways...

00:38:10 ◼   ► The dynamic islands could be considered a new way to not have the confirmation.

00:38:15 ◼   ► But anyway, there's a setting to disable the confirmation for shortcuts automations.

00:38:21 ◼   ► Number six, podcasts will gain audio effects for enhanced sound and trim silence.

00:38:29 ◼   ► Parenthesis, this was my previous Ricky.

00:38:32 ◼   ► Thankfully, I didn't go for it for a Ricky, but no.

00:38:36 ◼   ► Number seven, finally, Apple adds more filters to smart folders in Notes.

00:38:49 ◼   ► I think we need to...

00:38:50 ◼   ► It's too late now, but I think it needs to go, one of us must start and then the others

00:38:55 ◼   ► follow because it's impossible to harmonize.

00:38:58 ◼   ► We're all going at the same time.

00:39:01 ◼   ► There's no problems with the system that we have created.

00:39:06 ◼   ► I'm glad they did this Federico.

00:39:08 ◼   ► I find it very frustrating that notes and reminders

00:39:13 ◼   ► handle this so differently from each other.

00:39:14 ◼   ► - Yes, the inconsistency is what kills me here.

00:39:16 ◼   ► Like some things you can do in notes,

00:39:18 ◼   ► but you cannot do in reminders and vice versa.

00:39:21 ◼   ► There should be some more unification there.

00:39:23 ◼   ► And while you're at it, maybe next year,

00:39:26 ◼   ► here's my suggestion for Apple.

00:39:27 ◼   ► While you're at it, next year,

00:39:29 ◼   ► Unify brings some consistency to the rules and the filters

00:39:33 ◼   ► that you have in notes and reminders.

00:39:34 ◼   ► And once you establish that baseline of consistency,

00:39:38 ◼   ► bring this feature to mail

00:39:40 ◼   ► and let me create smart folders in mail.

00:39:42 ◼   ► - It's only been on the Mac since 2001.

00:39:44 ◼   ► All right. - All right.

00:39:47 ◼   ► - Okay, it didn't pan out for you.

00:39:51 ◼   ► You got two out of seven, which is 28.6%.

00:39:56 ◼   ► - Nice number though, I like it.

00:39:57 ◼   ► - Yeah, nice, nice number.

00:39:58 ◼   ► So you are the flexi loser, I'm sorry to say.

00:40:03 ◼   ► I'm also sorry to say that Myke and I now have to coin flip.

00:40:06 ◼   ► It comes down once again to a coin flip.

00:40:08 ◼   ► It does.

00:40:09 ◼   ► And you know, Myke has an advantage here,

00:40:12 ◼   ► as he's got real, real strong coin flip energy

00:40:16 ◼   ► flowing through him right now.

00:40:18 ◼   ► He does.

00:40:19 ◼   ► As I always do.

00:40:21 ◼   ► I have Dice by Peacock open and available.

00:40:24 ◼   ► I'm checking that it's in real AFM mode,

00:40:27 ◼   ► which I'm sure it is.

00:40:29 ◼   ► Yep, it is.

00:40:30 ◼   ► Are you ready?

00:40:31 ◼   ► I am and I choose tails.

00:40:33 ◼   ► - Oh interesting, you just think you get to choose?

00:40:36 ◼   ► - You're flipping it, you can't flip and pick.

00:40:39 ◼   ► - Sure I can.

00:40:40 ◼   ► - Yeah you can.

00:40:41 ◼   ► - Sure you can.

00:40:42 ◼   ► But anyway, all right, your tails.

00:40:45 ◼   ► Heads.

00:40:46 ◼   ► Yes. - It's impossible.

00:40:47 ◼   ► - What's even so good about that is like,

00:40:49 ◼   ► I was the one who suggested that you should get your point,

00:40:52 ◼   ► therefore equally mine.

00:40:54 ◼   ► So I was like, gracious?

00:40:56 ◼   ► - Yeah, you were gracious about it.

00:40:58 ◼   ► You were benevolent about it.

00:41:00 ◼   ► Yeah, and I still took the win. So that is a double win for me today.

00:41:04 ◼   ► Which feels pretty good.

00:41:05 ◼   ► Which makes you, which makes you... No, it doesn't make you anything.

00:41:09 ◼   ► No, it doesn't make me anything. Yet.

00:41:12 ◼   ► Yet. Okay.

00:41:13 ◼   ► But I am, well, it does make me Duke of Lexington.

00:41:16 ◼   ► But you are, you are Duke of Lexington. Yes. Okay.

00:41:21 ◼   ► And you need to pick a nonprofit or some organization for Federico to donate to?

00:41:29 ◼   ► Ah, yes!

00:41:29 ◼   ► Oh, I gotta pay up, yeah.

00:41:31 ◼   ► And your total, Federico, is going to be $125.

00:41:35 ◼   ► Nice, nice. Good money.

00:41:37 ◼   ► So, I'll put a link in our iMessage here.

00:41:41 ◼   ► Federico, I would like you to donate to Crysis,

00:41:44 ◼   ► which is a charitable organization in the UK

00:41:47 ◼   ► to help people who are experiencing homelessness.

00:41:51 ◼   ► It is economically disastrous in the United Kingdom right now.

00:41:56 ◼   ► the price of general living is really bad for a lot of people, and so this is a—

00:42:04 ◼   ► these kinds of charities at the moment, I think, need some help, because there are people

00:42:08 ◼   ► experiencing homelessness who wouldn't have before, let alone people that already were.

00:42:13 ◼   ► And Myke, while he does that, I do need to—we need to say this—so the last keynote flexis—let

00:42:21 ◼   ► look. The last keynote flexies you won. Wait. And you won this. So you are

00:42:32 ◼   ► currently Archduke. Hell yeah! You said I was keynote chairman when we began

00:42:41 ◼   ► the show Stephen. We can't trust that rules document clearly. Federico, so September

00:42:47 ◼   ► 2020 Federico by coin flip then Myke than me flexes Myke Federico and Stephen

00:42:54 ◼   ► yeah yeah so I'm the keynote chairman Myke is the new annual chairman yes just

00:43:02 ◼   ► Duke of Lexington no I'm Archduke yeah so it's good because I won in September

00:43:09 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:43:10 ◼   ► You said I won.

00:43:11 ◼   ► The flexis.

00:43:12 ◼   ► No, you won the Rickies.

00:43:14 ◼   ► I won the flexis.

00:43:16 ◼   ► Wait.

00:43:17 ◼   ► Oh, yeah.

00:43:18 ◼   ► Well, then we go back to the updated rules then, because I think the way it's phrased

00:43:24 ◼   ► is confusing.

00:43:25 ◼   ► No, it's just in the flexis rules.

00:43:27 ◼   ► It's only in the flexi rules.

00:43:29 ◼   ► Myke is the current winner of the keynote flexis, and Myke is the winner of the annual

00:43:33 ◼   ► flexis.

00:43:34 ◼   ► So Myke gets to use Archduke Flexington until further notice.

00:43:38 ◼   ► Okay, okay.

00:43:39 ◼   ► Myke has, out of the four titles, Myke has three.

00:43:42 ◼   ► But Erika, you have one. I have zero.

00:43:45 ◼   ► Watch out, Spring. Your boy's coming for you, you know?

00:43:49 ◼   ► If you consolidate all four, I don't know what happens.

00:43:52 ◼   ► I don't think it's ever happened before.

00:43:54 ◼   ► I would have to give me a brand new name, you know what I mean?

00:43:56 ◼   ► Like, I don't know what it is. Like, Galactic Emperor or something?

00:43:59 ◼   ► God.

00:44:00 ◼   ► [Laughter]

00:44:05 ◼   ► At some point, at which point do you start a cult?

00:44:09 ◼   ► You know?

00:44:10 ◼   ► [Laughter]

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00:46:01 ◼   ► - During the show today, I registered chairman.social.

00:46:04 ◼   ► - Nice.

00:46:05 ◼   ► - If we ever decide to do that.

00:46:06 ◼   ► I did it with the E, right?

00:46:07 ◼   ► If you said Federico chairman,

00:46:09 ◼   ► 'cause it would be multiple. - With the E, yeah.

00:46:10 ◼   ► Yeah, because it's exactly.

00:46:11 ◼   ► - Yes.

00:46:12 ◼   ► - Yeah, so I have that now.

00:46:13 ◼   ► - Very cool, very cool, okay.

00:46:15 ◼   ► So it is now time to make our picks for 2023.

00:46:19 ◼   ► We're gonna put some stakes in the ground

00:46:21 ◼   ► for what we think could happen next year.

00:46:24 ◼   ► Myke, you are the newly minted annual chairman,

00:46:29 ◼   ► so please, sir, go first.

00:46:32 ◼   ► Oh, I like that, thank you.

00:46:34 ◼   ► My first pick in round one is that Apple

00:46:37 ◼   ► will release a larger MacBook Air.

00:46:40 ◼   ► I hope so.

00:46:40 ◼   ► So this has been rumored for a little bit, actually,

00:46:43 ◼   ► and it keeps kind of gaining some steam.

00:46:46 ◼   ► It's like maybe like 15 and a half inches,

00:46:49 ◼   ► something like that.

00:46:49 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:46:50 ◼   ► - I think that'd be super cool.

00:46:52 ◼   ► And I think it would be very popular.

00:46:54 ◼   ► - And I think it could replace the 13 inch MacBook Pro

00:46:57 ◼   ► in the lineup.

00:46:58 ◼   ► So you would have a 13 and 15 inch MacBook Air,

00:47:02 ◼   ► 14 and 16 MacBook Pro.

00:47:04 ◼   ► It makes so much sense.

00:47:05 ◼   ► I've said this before.

00:47:06 ◼   ► It makes so much sense.

00:47:07 ◼   ► I'm a little afraid that Apple won't do it,

00:47:08 ◼   ► but I hope that they do.

00:47:10 ◼   ► - That's a very fair fear to have.

00:47:13 ◼   ► This is so sensible.

00:47:15 ◼   ► They won't.

00:47:16 ◼   ► So my first regular pick is kind of a boring one, but hey, that's how you gotta win these

00:47:22 ◼   ► games. Apple releases a new Mac Mini. That's the pick. My context, without, you know, this

00:47:30 ◼   ► is not part of the pick, just my personal speculation, I would assume it's got the same

00:47:35 ◼   ► design as the Mac Mini we have today. Maybe it's got an M2 inside. It would be nice to

00:47:43 ◼   ► have more Thunderbolt ports. I have a refurbished M1 Mac Mini and it's only got the two Thunderbolt

00:47:49 ◼   ► ports. It'd be nice to have more of those with the M2, with the new Mac Mini. I don't

00:47:55 ◼   ► know if Apple is considering like M2 Pro or M2 Max versions of that machine, but still,

00:48:03 ◼   ► for 2023 my sort of base hope is that we get a new Mac Mini. Could be an M3. Could be any

00:48:11 ◼   ► time it comes out. Could be. Maybe. But I just hope it comes out this year. My pick

00:48:15 ◼   ► is that WWDC 2023 follows the same format as WWDC 2022 with a small number

00:48:23 ◼   ► of people invited in person. All right let's get some clarification on this one.

00:48:28 ◼   ► So are you saying that they won't be like a, you know, people they're not gonna

00:48:35 ◼   ► have a convention center and people can apply for tickets? Yeah I'm saying it's

00:48:38 ◼   ► gonna be just like it was in 2022. Okay. Not coming back the way that it was,

00:48:43 ◼   ► staying the way that it is now. Hopefully plus you. I mean, that's obviously

00:48:47 ◼   ► unsaid. Well, I mean, I was invited the first time. It's true. You know, just

00:48:53 ◼   ► couldn't get over the 12-yard line or whatever it would be. So did I use that

00:48:58 ◼   ► metaphor correctly? No, no, it works. Okay. Fine, I guess. I don't know why you

00:49:02 ◼   ► picked 12, but... How many yards are there to the touchdown? Well, it depends on where

00:49:07 ◼   ► you are on the field, really.

00:49:09 ◼   ► You cross the goal line, I think is what you're looking for.

00:49:11 ◼   ► - What's a yard?

00:49:12 ◼   ► - It's like a meter, kind of.

00:49:16 ◼   ► - Oh, it's one of your units of measurement.

00:49:20 ◼   ► That doesn't make any sense?

00:49:21 ◼   ► - Yes. - Okay.

00:49:22 ◼   ► - Yeah. - True.

00:49:23 ◼   ► - Cool.

00:49:24 ◼   ► - I feel pretty good about all three of these.

00:49:26 ◼   ► Like, I'll say it now, I think all three of these

00:49:30 ◼   ► could be green in a year.

00:49:32 ◼   ► - Hmm, yeah, this seems--

00:49:33 ◼   ► - Not a lot of passion in round one.

00:49:35 ◼   ► But that's okay, you gotta warm up.

00:49:37 ◼   ► You know, you can't jump right in.

00:49:38 ◼   ► - No, I think that the vibe for 23 is the year of obviousness.

00:49:43 ◼   ► You know, just normal obvious things.

00:49:53 ◼   ► This is the vibe.

00:49:55 ◼   ► - Is that your theme for the year?

00:49:57 ◼   ► - Obviousness.

00:49:58 ◼   ► - No, it's not my theme for the year.

00:49:59 ◼   ► I still gotta think about a name for my theme of the year.

00:50:02 ◼   ► But in terms of sort of the Apple scene, you know,

00:50:07 ◼   ► vibe check for 23 obvious things, no surprises.

00:50:11 ◼   ► - I like it.

00:50:12 ◼   ► Round two, Myke.

00:50:14 ◼   ► - An iPhone gets USB-C.

00:50:16 ◼   ► Could be going a tad early on this one.

00:50:20 ◼   ► - I think it's a premature pickification.

00:50:23 ◼   ► - Interesting. - Pickification.

00:50:26 ◼   ► - We'll see, I'm going, I feel like there's a smattering

00:50:30 ◼   ► of passion on this one.

00:50:31 ◼   ► I could be going a year early, it's open to interpretation,

00:50:36 ◼   ► but this could have been a thing that Apple would just,

00:50:39 ◼   ► you know, there was, maybe they were ready

00:50:41 ◼   ► and willing to do anyway, at least on the Pro phones.

00:50:45 ◼   ► So why not just go for it?

00:50:47 ◼   ► And so my expectation is, this is ungraded,

00:50:50 ◼   ► that it will be just the Pro phones that get it now,

00:50:53 ◼   ► and then there will be the regular phones in 2024.

00:50:57 ◼   ► - I could see that.

00:50:58 ◼   ► And I think if they did that,

00:51:00 ◼   ► I actually really like that idea.

00:51:01 ◼   ► I think if they do that, they'll be like,

00:51:02 ◼   ► "Hey, now we got super fast transfer

00:51:04 ◼   ► "for all of your pro res."

00:51:07 ◼   ► And they make it about what it gives them,

00:51:09 ◼   ► not about the EU on their backs.

00:51:12 ◼   ► - Yeah, whenever they do it, they're gonna make it like,

00:51:15 ◼   ► it's, then they'll, I can't imagine during the keynote

00:51:17 ◼   ► that they're gonna start dragging the European Union, right?

00:51:20 ◼   ► Like it just doesn't really feel--

00:51:21 ◼   ► - It seems like an unwise move.

00:51:23 ◼   ► - I know Jaws did it, right?

00:51:24 ◼   ► But like it was a different environment to do it in,

00:51:27 ◼   ► like that Wall Street Journal thing we're joining us on,

00:51:30 ◼   ► but I feel like it's not the way that they're gonna go

00:51:33 ◼   ► when they actually show off these products.

00:51:36 ◼   ► - I don't know, I think all the phones will get it.

00:51:38 ◼   ► I don't think you are premature.

00:51:39 ◼   ► I think if the one I get it done in time for the EU,

00:51:42 ◼   ► they gotta do it this year, and if you're doing it this year--

00:51:45 ◼   ► - No, the rule as it is stated now is by the end of 2024.

00:51:50 ◼   ► - Yeah, but why drag it out?

00:51:53 ◼   ► - Oh, I agree, I agree, but they could release a phone

00:51:57 ◼   ► this year with lightning and then in September of 24 and still be technically

00:52:02 ◼   ► compatible with the law.

00:52:03 ◼   ► All right. My second regular pick is also,

00:52:07 ◼   ► I think a fairly safe one. Uh,

00:52:10 ◼   ► there will not be an iPhone 15 mini.

00:52:15 ◼   ► That's the pick. This is, I love you,

00:52:20 ◼   ► but this is one of the most boring picks you've ever picked.

00:52:23 ◼   ► That's how you got. Well, I am,

00:52:26 ◼   ► I am facing unprecedented circumstances at the risk--

00:52:30 ◼   ► - What are they?

00:52:31 ◼   ► - We are at the risk of losing democracy in the RICIs.

00:52:36 ◼   ► We are facing a single individual aiming

00:52:40 ◼   ► to consolidate power across all of four of the titles

00:52:44 ◼   ► that we have in the RICIs.

00:52:45 ◼   ► My only, my only defense strategy

00:52:50 ◼   ► is to go for a very boring pick.

00:52:53 ◼   ► Well not really because this is the wrong Rickies to do that in because my ability to consolidate

00:53:00 ◼   ► power is an immediate thing not a 2024 thing. I gotta think down the line don't worry I will

00:53:07 ◼   ► also deal with the upcoming keynote Rickies. I gotta do for I gotta I'm sorry but I told you

00:53:15 ◼   ► year of obviousness. I got to go for obvious picks. Make sure that we will not end up with

00:53:22 ◼   ► a dictatorship in the Riki's. Right. You, you're the, like, you are the

00:53:28 ◼   ► defendant of democracy. I am the savior of the Republic. Okay. Okay. I am like Darth

00:53:34 ◼   ► Vader or whatever. Yes. Or the emperor, I guess. Yes. Do you know, I'm talking about

00:53:40 ◼   ► Star Wars. I know that's Star Wars. Okay. No Intel Macs are left on sale as new at the end of 2023.

00:53:49 ◼   ► I mean that could be bold. I mean, you know what I mean? What is, what is as new? I don't understand

00:53:54 ◼   ► the parentheses. I want to hedge against the two of you saying, oh there's a refurbished

00:53:59 ◼   ► Intel Mac Mini on the refurbished store. So new computers. Okay, I go to Apple. I still think this

00:54:07 ◼   ► could be bold because that Mac Pro could still be, like they could still be selling the old

00:54:11 ◼   ► one.

00:54:12 ◼   ► I still don't understand the phrasing. So if I go to apple.com, so okay, not on the

00:54:18 ◼   ► refurbished website, that's excluded. I go on apple.com and I see an Intel Mac from three

00:54:26 ◼   ► years ago. Does that qualify?

00:54:28 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:54:29 ◼   ► It's the as new.

00:54:31 ◼   ► My pick is about what you can...

00:54:33 ◼   ► I find confusing.

00:54:34 ◼   ► Yeah, so this is what I'm trying to say is,

00:54:37 ◼   ► and I could change the wording,

00:54:38 ◼   ► but my pick is discounting anything

00:54:42 ◼   ► that happens to be refurbished,

00:54:44 ◼   ► everything is Apple Silicon.

00:54:45 ◼   ► So everything you buy at apple.com/store

00:54:49 ◼   ► that's a new product is Apple Silicon.

00:54:52 ◼   ► I mean, this makes sense to me.

00:54:53 ◼   ► So basically what it gets rid of

00:54:55 ◼   ► is the 2018 Mac Mini and the 2019 Mac Pro.

00:54:59 ◼   ► Those two would not be on sale anymore.

00:55:00 ◼   ► Okay.

00:55:01 ◼   ► And I could specify that if you guys need it,

00:55:03 ◼   ► but I feel like I could do an ungraded note if we want to.

00:55:08 ◼   ► - Yeah, if it doesn't include the refurbished storage

00:55:11 ◼   ► education store, like just get rid of those.

00:55:14 ◼   ► And I think this is bold.

00:55:17 ◼   ► I could imagine them having the Mac Pro still available,

00:55:21 ◼   ► even if they have a new one.

00:55:22 ◼   ► - Maybe.

00:55:23 ◼   ► - If it's different enough,

00:55:24 ◼   ► they might keep it around for a little bit longer.

00:55:27 ◼   ► - We'll find out.

00:55:28 ◼   ► I think they want to move,

00:55:29 ◼   ► the longer they have an Intel Mac on sale,

00:55:33 ◼   ► the longer they have to support it in macOS.

00:55:35 ◼   ► And I think they wanna move on, so.

00:55:37 ◼   ► - I need to get their finger out.

00:55:39 ◼   ► - But we'll see, I mean, yeah, this could come,

00:55:40 ◼   ► if my beloved 2019 Mac Pro comes back to haunt me for this,

00:55:44 ◼   ► you know, it's what I get for selling it, I guess.

00:55:46 ◼   ► Okay, so that's the end of round two.

00:55:49 ◼   ► I feel like we're increasing the risk a little bit,

00:55:52 ◼   ► except for Federico, who's being very boring this year.

00:55:55 ◼   ► And it's time.

00:55:57 ◼   ► - Unless the plus was such a disaster, you know what I mean?

00:56:00 ◼   ► They're like screeching brakes and bringing out a mini.

00:56:04 ◼   ► - Time, turn it to 11.

00:56:06 ◼   ► Myke, what is your risky pick?

00:56:07 ◼   ► - Apple shows off their headset in March.

00:56:10 ◼   ► They announced developer tools at WWDC.

00:56:12 ◼   ► Then show it off again at an event in September.

00:56:15 ◼   ► It ships to customers in October.

00:56:17 ◼   ► - This is so specific.

00:56:19 ◼   ► - So specific.

00:56:21 ◼   ► - Well, I mean, you gotta be, right?

00:56:22 ◼   ► So the one thing I wanna clarify with you guys

00:56:25 ◼   ► is the ships to customers, right?

00:56:27 ◼   ► - Yeah, what does that mean?

00:56:29 ◼   ► - Well, because, you know,

00:56:31 ◼   ► sometimes you can buy a thing on a certain date

00:56:34 ◼   ► and it starts shipping on a certain date.

00:56:35 ◼   ► What I'm saying is the shipping date is October.

00:56:39 ◼   ► - Okay, so if you can order in October,

00:56:42 ◼   ► but you can't get it till November, you miss this.

00:56:44 ◼   ► - Correct. - Okay.

00:56:46 ◼   ► I like the idea of this

00:56:48 ◼   ► because it follows the pattern of the Apple Watch.

00:56:51 ◼   ► The Apple Watch was announced at the iPhone 6 event

00:56:53 ◼   ► in the fall of 2014.

00:56:55 ◼   ► And then we learned more about it in early 2015.

00:56:58 ◼   ► and sometime in there they released, what was it?

00:57:00 ◼   ► WatchKit?

00:57:01 ◼   ► Was that the first stab at a developer platform?

00:57:04 ◼   ► - Yes.

00:57:05 ◼   ► - And then it went on sale a little bit later.

00:57:06 ◼   ► Like, I think that rollout would work well

00:57:10 ◼   ► for this product as well.

00:57:11 ◼   ► Who knows if your timing is right,

00:57:12 ◼   ► but I think the shape of it is good.

00:57:15 ◼   ► - Yeah, I mean, the reason I've done this

00:57:16 ◼   ► is I've been saying that I reckon

00:57:18 ◼   ► that they were gonna do it this way for a while.

00:57:20 ◼   ► That like, the first time that we see the headset

00:57:22 ◼   ► will not be at WWDC and will not be at the iPhone event.

00:57:25 ◼   ► Like, that's my personal feeling on this.

00:57:27 ◼   ► because I think it makes a lot of sense to stage it out,

00:57:31 ◼   ► as you mentioned, the same way they did with the Apple Watch,

00:57:34 ◼   ► the same way they did with the original iPhone.

00:57:36 ◼   ► You have space in which they can show something off,

00:57:41 ◼   ► get people to start thinking,

00:57:42 ◼   ► they can maybe start then bringing more key developers,

00:57:46 ◼   ► like prominent developers, to Apple Park

00:57:48 ◼   ► to show them the thing, because now people know about it,

00:57:50 ◼   ► so they can start working on stuff,

00:57:52 ◼   ► maybe get some advanced access to their tools.

00:57:56 ◼   ► Then at WWDC, give those tools to everyone.

00:57:59 ◼   ► People have had time to think and start like,

00:58:01 ◼   ► - Yeah.

00:58:02 ◼   ► - You know, like what it might be.

00:58:03 ◼   ► And then also then, they don't lose all of WWDC

00:58:07 ◼   ► to showing off the headset, right?

00:58:09 ◼   ► 'Cause you show off the headset at WWDC,

00:58:11 ◼   ► no one's talking or thinking about anything else.

00:58:12 ◼   ► - That's the whole show.

00:58:14 ◼   ► - I think that they probably wouldn't announce

00:58:16 ◼   ► the developer tools at the time that they show it off

00:58:18 ◼   ► for the first time if they do show it off in the spring.

00:58:20 ◼   ► And then they can do the whole thing,

00:58:22 ◼   ► as you just mentioned,

00:58:23 ◼   ► I think this was the event that Federico was at.

00:58:25 ◼   ► Were you at the September event, right?

00:58:27 ◼   ► Where they were like--

00:58:28 ◼   ► I was at the March one.

00:58:32 ◼   ► Oh, were you?

00:58:34 ◼   ► Okay.

00:58:35 ◼   ► Yeah, March 2015.

00:58:36 ◼   ► You were at the one where they showed up

00:58:36 ◼   ► for the first time?

00:58:38 ◼   ► No, no, they showed it for the first time in September 14.

00:58:41 ◼   ► March 15 is when we got prices

00:58:44 ◼   ► and they played all the videos about the aluminum

00:58:47 ◼   ► and the stainless steel and the gold, all that stuff.

00:58:49 ◼   ► But in essence, what I'm saying, they will do that,

00:58:52 ◼   ► but in September with the iPhone,

00:58:54 ◼   ► would be like, "Hey, is it?"

00:58:55 ◼   ► And then it starts shipping later on in the year.

00:58:58 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:59:00 ◼   ► Yeah, I think your idea about it eating WBC alive

00:59:03 ◼   ► is totally accurate.

00:59:04 ◼   ► And I think maybe that really defines

00:59:06 ◼   ► how they would do this.

00:59:08 ◼   ► So who would even remember?

00:59:10 ◼   ► What was in iOS or macOS, right?

00:59:12 ◼   ► Like, they would just eat it all.

00:59:15 ◼   ► - Yeah, read it again, Myke, just because it's so long.

00:59:20 ◼   ► - It's a lot of dates.

00:59:22 ◼   ► Apple shows off their headset in March.

00:59:24 ◼   ► They announced developer tools at WWDC, then show it off again at an event in September.

00:59:29 ◼   ► It ships to customers in October.

00:59:31 ◼   ► Alright, I am bringing the passion with my risky pick.

00:59:35 ◼   ► All the obviousness was just a decoy.

00:59:38 ◼   ► I just needed to confuse my enemies.

00:59:41 ◼   ► I am bringing the passion with this one.

00:59:43 ◼   ► Okay.

00:59:44 ◼   ► I'm so confused.

00:59:45 ◼   ► Yes, I know that was the strategy.

00:59:47 ◼   ► I needed to confuse my adversaries in this game.

00:59:51 ◼   ► will release its biggest iPad ever with a display of at least 16 inches. It won't be

01:00:00 ◼   ► OLED. It'll have the front-facing camera on the landscape side and two USB-C ports at

01:00:07 ◼   ► least. It'll be called iPad Studio.

01:00:10 ◼   ► Oh, Federico, this is insane. I'll tell you where you lose me. Two USB-C ports at least.

01:00:20 ◼   ► Now you can do it.

01:00:21 ◼   ► That's where you lose me.

01:00:22 ◼   ► Now why the Surface has it?

01:00:23 ◼   ► It's totally doable.

01:00:25 ◼   ► Oh, sure.

01:00:27 ◼   ► It's the break that driver kit needs.

01:00:30 ◼   ► I find it very peculiar that your argument here is the Surface has it?

01:00:35 ◼   ► Well, no, it's an argument.

01:00:37 ◼   ► The other argument being if you're making...

01:00:38 ◼   ► So my idea is that Apple is making this bigger iPad.

01:00:41 ◼   ► It's been sort of rumored before the 14 inch or the 16 inch form factors for the iPad.

01:00:48 ◼   ► My idea is if you're making a 16-inch iPad, it's obviously sort of a convertible device,

01:00:53 ◼   ► but it's more optimized for desktop usage.

01:00:56 ◼   ► If you're making an iPad for desktop usage, I struggle to think that you can get by with

01:01:02 ◼   ► just a single Thunderbolt port.

01:01:06 ◼   ► If you're making an iPad that you primarily advertise as, "Oh, your place is on your desk,"

01:01:10 ◼   ► and then maybe there's some new accessories, maybe it's sort of kind of like a Surface

01:01:15 ◼   ► studio that has a stand that you can pull down, maybe it's something else. But in any

01:01:21 ◼   ► event, imagine if you buy a Mac and it's a desktop Mac and it's got one USB-C port. I

01:01:27 ◼   ► mean, that happened a few years ago. It was the MacBook, I think, and it didn't go over

01:01:33 ◼   ► well. And it wasn't a desktop. It was still a MacBook. If you're making an iPad that is

01:01:38 ◼   ► primarily optimized for desktop usage, like imagine a 16 inch tablet that you can use.

01:01:45 ◼   ► A single USB-C port, I think it will look very strange. The rest is just predicated upon the

01:01:52 ◼   ► idea that Apple is in fact making a 16 inch iPad, the front facing camera on the long side, on the

01:01:59 ◼   ► landscape side, it's based on the base model iPad moving the camera to what is... Can you imagine

01:02:06 ◼   ► holding a 16 inch iPad in portrait.

01:02:08 ◼   ► - In portrait, exactly, exactly.

01:02:10 ◼   ► - That would be horrible.

01:02:12 ◼   ► That would be such a bad experience.

01:02:14 ◼   ► - Yeah, that would be like, am I an iPad user or am I Moses?

01:02:18 ◼   ► Like I cannot tell the difference.

01:02:20 ◼   ► And lastly, the name.

01:02:24 ◼   ► I know that the name is also what makes this pick risky.

01:02:27 ◼   ► I really do believe that the studio name

01:02:31 ◼   ► that they introduced last year with the Mac Studio

01:02:34 ◼   ► is not a one-off. I want to believe it's part of a bigger strategy that will involve more

01:02:40 ◼   ► computers called Studio. I mean, we already have the Studio display. There's also rumors

01:02:47 ◼   ► of Apple making new displays in the near future. I do believe that the Studio name would be

01:02:52 ◼   ► perfect for an iPad. If you're making a big iPad, what better way to have that device

01:02:59 ◼   ► go up against the Surface Studio.

01:03:01 ◼   ► I should also say there's the Surface Studio 2.

01:03:04 ◼   ► It has a $5,000 computer that you can buy.

01:03:09 ◼   ► I love this device.

01:03:11 ◼   ► There have been some rumors about--

01:03:15 ◼   ► Gherman talked about a 14-inch iPad that Apple was working on.

01:03:18 ◼   ► And I believe that Information, a few months ago,

01:03:21 ◼   ► published a report on Apple also making a 16-inch iPad.

01:03:26 ◼   ► And the details are what I added to this pic.

01:03:31 ◼   ► You know, taking a page from Myke and his multilayer pic,

01:03:37 ◼   ► trademark registered, of course.

01:03:39 ◼   ► Once again, Apple will release its biggest iPad ever

01:03:42 ◼   ► with a display of at least 16 inches.

01:03:45 ◼   ► It won't be OLED.

01:03:47 ◼   ► It'll have the front-facing camera on the landscape side

01:03:50 ◼   ► and two USB-C ports at least.

01:03:52 ◼   ► It'll be called iPad Studio.

01:03:54 ◼   ► The saddest thing would be if the naming is what kills you.

01:03:57 ◼   ► - I know.

01:03:58 ◼   ► Well, you gotta take the plunge and you know, risk it.

01:04:02 ◼   ► - You said it won't be OLED.

01:04:04 ◼   ► Are you picturing mini LED or like plain LCD?

01:04:08 ◼   ► - Ideally, it should be mini LED like the current iPad Pro,

01:04:12 ◼   ► but I could also see a scenario in which Apple says

01:04:16 ◼   ► it's 16 inches, but you get IPS.

01:04:19 ◼   ► Because they all always do this stuff,

01:04:22 ◼   ► but it'd be a bummer and it'd be weird

01:04:24 ◼   ► because like they could just reuse the display

01:04:27 ◼   ► of the MacBook Pro, right?

01:04:28 ◼   ► If they're making--

01:04:29 ◼   ► - You know what they would say, they would say like,

01:04:31 ◼   ► it's all, but it's the best we've ever made.

01:04:34 ◼   ► - It's the best IPS and in our testing,

01:04:37 ◼   ► we believe that at this size, like yeah, yeah,

01:04:40 ◼   ► whatever, wherever, you just didn't wanna make it.

01:04:42 ◼   ► - Mine is related to yours,

01:04:44 ◼   ► but specific in different ways.

01:04:46 ◼   ► Apple releases a 15 inch iPad Pro,

01:04:50 ◼   ► which replaces the 11 inch model.

01:04:52 ◼   ► - Spicy, okay.

01:04:55 ◼   ► - Having heard Federico,

01:04:56 ◼   ► I would like some clarifying questions for you.

01:04:58 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:04:59 ◼   ► - Like I agree with the risk and the citizen's pick,

01:05:00 ◼   ► but I think it's important to do some clarifying questions.

01:05:03 ◼   ► 15 inch, what about 14.9?

01:05:07 ◼   ► So you don't get it, right?

01:05:08 ◼   ► - It says 15.

01:05:09 ◼   ► - But you're saying it starts at 15?

01:05:11 ◼   ► - Yeah. - All right.

01:05:12 ◼   ► - I'm actually thinking 15.4.

01:05:14 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:05:15 ◼   ► - Then I think you should clarify that

01:05:17 ◼   ► because if it's 15.4, the wording of your pick says

01:05:20 ◼   ► you do not get it.

01:05:21 ◼   ► - Well, I mean, that's what I'm thinking

01:05:22 ◼   ► because that was an old MacBook Pro size,

01:05:24 ◼   ► but it could be 15.7 or something.

01:05:27 ◼   ► 15 inch.

01:05:28 ◼   ► - Well, so Federico says at least 16 inches,

01:05:31 ◼   ► I think that you should say releases like an iPad

01:05:35 ◼   ► is at least, right?

01:05:36 ◼   ► Is at least.

01:05:37 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:05:38 ◼   ► - I think is the important part there.

01:05:39 ◼   ► - At least 15, releases a.

01:05:42 ◼   ► - An iPad Pro.

01:05:43 ◼   ► - But then it actually makes it less risky

01:05:44 ◼   ► 'cause if it's 16, then I still get it.

01:05:46 ◼   ► And I think it'll be a 15 inch class.

01:05:49 ◼   ► So you think 15 dead then?

01:05:52 ◼   ► An iPad Pro with a screen.

01:05:57 ◼   ► In between 15.0 and 15.9 inches.

01:05:59 ◼   ► And between 15.0 and 15.9 inches.

01:06:03 ◼   ► It's the only way to do this.

01:06:04 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:06:05 ◼   ► All right.

01:06:05 ◼   ► I mean, I like it.

01:06:06 ◼   ► You just made it worse.

01:06:07 ◼   ► 15.9999 inches.

01:06:10 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:06:11 ◼   ► Why just four nines?

01:06:13 ◼   ► If they do 15.9998, I'm willing to lose.

01:06:19 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:06:20 ◼   ► - And the 11 inch model goes away.

01:06:22 ◼   ► And the reason I added that is because

01:06:25 ◼   ► it would simplify the problem we talked about earlier

01:06:29 ◼   ► where you have like the 10th gen, the Air and the Pro,

01:06:32 ◼   ► they're all basically the same size.

01:06:34 ◼   ► They're all very similar in form factor and function,

01:06:38 ◼   ► especially the Air and the Pro,

01:06:39 ◼   ► like why would you buy an 11 inch iPad Pro?

01:06:42 ◼   ► I think we all think it's dead.

01:06:44 ◼   ► And it also kind of resonates

01:06:46 ◼   ► with the big MacBook Air idea.

01:06:49 ◼   ► So we would have the 10th Gen iPad,

01:06:53 ◼   ► you would have the iPad Air,

01:06:55 ◼   ► and then you have the iPad Pro at 12.9

01:06:58 ◼   ► and 15 point something inches.

01:07:01 ◼   ► It just feels like a cohesive family.

01:07:03 ◼   ► - So I will mention this part,

01:07:04 ◼   ► like one thing that I'm concerned about

01:07:06 ◼   ► for my round one pick, right,

01:07:07 ◼   ► is I could imagine that Apple could name

01:07:10 ◼   ► a larger MacBook Air or MacBook Studio.

01:07:12 ◼   ► Like that is a possibility,

01:07:15 ◼   ► but I'm kind of thinking for the MacBook,

01:07:18 ◼   ► they may just wanna lean on the branding of Air,

01:07:20 ◼   ► which is, you know, their most popular.

01:07:22 ◼   ► - It is.

01:07:23 ◼   ► - So I wrap around and say,

01:07:26 ◼   ► I think the risk for you is I think they are more likely

01:07:29 ◼   ► to not have two iPad Pros

01:07:31 ◼   ► if they're gonna have just two really big iPads

01:07:33 ◼   ► and that they might give it a different name.

01:07:35 ◼   ► I wish you good luck with your pick.

01:07:36 ◼   ► - We'll see, we'll see.

01:07:38 ◼   ► So those are our risky picks for 2023.

01:07:43 ◼   ► Can you read yours again, Stephen, please?

01:07:45 ◼   ► Because we changed it.

01:07:46 ◼   ► - Apple releases an iPad Pro

01:07:47 ◼   ► with a screen between 15.0 and 15.999 inches,

01:07:52 ◼   ► which replaces the 11 inch model.

01:07:54 ◼   ► I always feel pretty good about my riskies

01:07:56 ◼   ► until I read them out loud on the show.

01:07:58 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:07:59 ◼   ► It's like, hmm.

01:08:00 ◼   ► - The reading out loud is the problematic part.

01:08:02 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:08:03 ◼   ► - But we now move to the flexies.

01:08:05 ◼   ► Myke, what do you have?

01:08:06 ◼   ► - There is no iPad bigger than 12.9 inches.

01:08:08 ◼   ► - Wow, okay.

01:08:09 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:08:12 ◼   ► Okay.

01:08:13 ◼   ► I actually kind of believe this.

01:08:15 ◼   ► I don't know if it's going to happen in 2023, to be honest with you boys.

01:08:19 ◼   ► I could imagine if they do this, it's 2024.

01:08:23 ◼   ► Like the iPad is on an 18-month refresh.

01:08:27 ◼   ► They just did it, right?

01:08:28 ◼   ► I think 2024 is the next time that anything happens to the iPad line.

01:08:31 ◼   ► But they barely did it.

01:08:33 ◼   ► An iPhone gets a periscope camera.

01:08:35 ◼   ► Yeah, I like it.

01:08:36 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:08:37 ◼   ► Apple's headsets uses widgets that look similar to iOS.

01:08:41 ◼   ► Hmm uses what do you mean uses widgets?

01:08:45 ◼   ► has

01:08:47 ◼   ► Has widgets supports supports widgets Apple's headset has widgets that look similar to iOS

01:08:53 ◼   ► Apple releases an iMac of a larger screen

01:08:56 ◼   ► I hope so AirPods max to feature a foldable design and come with a new case that fully encloses them

01:09:02 ◼   ► I am manifesting here. Okay, if they ship that original case again

01:09:07 ◼   ► I just don't know what's happening at that company.

01:09:10 ◼   ► I'm manifesting and I'm going to manifest again.

01:09:13 ◼   ► The iPad mini gets updated featuring either a mini LED or OLED screen.

01:09:17 ◼   ► Oh boy!

01:09:18 ◼   ► This is just, those last two, they're just, I'm just fully manifesting.

01:09:22 ◼   ► You know they're just going to do a spec bump of the iPad mini, right?

01:09:25 ◼   ► If I'm lucky!

01:09:26 ◼   ► If you're lucky or if I'm lucky.

01:09:28 ◼   ► If you're lucky you're getting a spec bump and that's it.

01:09:33 ◼   ► Well, my first Flexi is the iPad mini will be updated in 2023.

01:09:37 ◼   ► Nice.

01:09:38 ◼   ► Okay.

01:09:39 ◼   ► Apple Music Classic ships in 2023.

01:09:44 ◼   ► Is that the name you're giving it?

01:09:46 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:09:47 ◼   ► In fact, is that the name?

01:09:48 ◼   ► Yes.

01:09:49 ◼   ► Apple Music Classic.

01:09:50 ◼   ► Apple Music Classic.

01:09:51 ◼   ► I'm telling you, Apple is announcing and manifesting here.

01:09:55 ◼   ► Apple is announcing Apple Music Classic tomorrow, December 29th.

01:09:59 ◼   ► we're recording this, they are doing it tomorrow. I can feel it. Something in the

01:10:04 ◼   ► universe is telling me this. Why do you think classic and not classical? Apple

01:10:09 ◼   ► Music Classic seems like a... But it's not called classic music. More Apple-y name. It's not what

01:10:13 ◼   ► it's called. It's classical music. Apple Music Classical. All right, Apple Music

01:10:17 ◼   ► Classical. Yeah, Apple Music Classical. Federico, do you know something? I don't

01:10:22 ◼   ► know anything. I don't know anything. I'm making things up as I go. If they

01:10:26 ◼   ► released this tomorrow Thursday December 29th I got it let me let me say it

01:10:31 ◼   ► publicly I do not know anything this is just my imagination please don't sue me

01:10:37 ◼   ► Twitter were filed for bankruptcy in 2023 going outside of the usual the

01:10:49 ◼   ► iPhone 15 and 15 Pro use the same generation system on the chip I think

01:10:55 ◼   ► this business they have this year with the 14 using basically last year's chip

01:11:00 ◼   ► isn't working out for them and I don't think they're gonna repeat it. There

01:11:03 ◼   ► may be differences that's why I said same generation and maybe you know the

01:11:06 ◼   ► pro has more GPU cores or whatever but... So it could be like a 16 and a 16 X or

01:11:11 ◼   ► whatever. Yeah exactly but not the a 15 and a 16. Why do you think it's not

01:11:16 ◼   ► working for them? I don't think they're selling any iPhone 14's. Because of the

01:11:20 ◼   ► chip? I think that's part of it. I think it's because of the chip. And I think it's probably part of the

01:11:24 ◼   ► design too but my pick is about the chip. Apple sells quote iPhone 15 Ultra.

01:11:32 ◼   ► Pro Max brand is gone. I'll be so happy. iPhone 15 Ultra. I would love this.

01:11:39 ◼   ► It's a good name. It's a great name. This is not the first time that Apple

01:11:44 ◼   ► is just straight-up ripped off Samsung's naming conventions. And they could just

01:11:48 ◼   ► go bananas on the big phone. Ultra is a great name. Great name. Good work to Samsung.

01:11:54 ◼   ► - iPhone 15 Ultra is a great name also like,

01:11:57 ◼   ► yeah, just get iPhone 15 Ultra, it's the best one.

01:12:00 ◼   ► Yeah, I like it, I like it.

01:12:03 ◼   ► - And obviously they use Ultra already, right?

01:12:05 ◼   ► They've started using it, so.

01:12:07 ◼   ► - Yeah. - Let's do it.

01:12:09 ◼   ► - I'm doubling down on an Apple Silicon Mac Pro, excuse me.

01:12:14 ◼   ► - Do it. - The Apple Silicon Mac Pro

01:12:16 ◼   ► allows third party GPUs to be used.

01:12:20 ◼   ► - Okay. - Well,

01:12:20 ◼   ► can I ask you a question? - Yes.

01:12:22 ◼   ► - 2B, this isn't for the pick up, just,

01:12:25 ◼   ► 2B, I mean, you can use them in a Thunderbolt enclosure.

01:12:27 ◼   ► You're imagining they--

01:12:28 ◼   ► - No, you can't.

01:12:29 ◼   ► No, no, no, they've gotten rid of that a long time,

01:12:30 ◼   ► that's gone.

01:12:31 ◼   ► - But in theory.

01:12:32 ◼   ► - No, you can't. - They could bring

01:12:33 ◼   ► that support back. - On Apple Silicon.

01:12:34 ◼   ► Apple Silicon doesn't allow for it.

01:12:36 ◼   ► - That they could do that though.

01:12:37 ◼   ► They have the ability to add that into,

01:12:39 ◼   ► in if they wanted to.

01:12:40 ◼   ► It's a thing that Thunderbolt can do, right?

01:12:41 ◼   ► So like, they could decide that,

01:12:44 ◼   ► what they're just gonna bring that in as possible.

01:12:46 ◼   ► You are imagining they go inside.

01:12:48 ◼   ► - I can clarify that,

01:12:49 ◼   ► 'cause I don't think external GPU support's

01:12:51 ◼   ► gonna be a thing.

01:12:52 ◼   ► We don't have to do that for the flexes.

01:12:54 ◼   ► - If they don't do this, then what's the difference

01:12:56 ◼   ► between a Mac Studio and a Mac Pro?

01:12:57 ◼   ► Like, I don't know.

01:12:58 ◼   ► - Size, I don't know.

01:13:00 ◼   ► Especially considering that Mark Gorman report

01:13:02 ◼   ► that they have stopped development

01:13:04 ◼   ► of a specific chip for it.

01:13:05 ◼   ► - The extreme, yeah.

01:13:07 ◼   ► - I think that really they need to have this as a thing.

01:13:10 ◼   ► - And lastly, kind of bouncing off

01:13:12 ◼   ► Federico's Mac Mini pick from earlier,

01:13:16 ◼   ► the Mac Mini is updated to include

01:13:18 ◼   ► more than one system on a chip option.

01:13:21 ◼   ► For example, non-grade example, M2 and M2 Pro.

01:13:25 ◼   ► The M1 Pro only showed up in the laptops

01:13:30 ◼   ► and there's a gap between the base Mac Mini

01:13:32 ◼   ► and the base Mac Studio,

01:13:34 ◼   ► 'cause the Studio is M1 Max and M1 Ultra.

01:13:37 ◼   ► Look, there's the Ultra name again.

01:13:39 ◼   ► And the Pro never landed anywhere else

01:13:41 ◼   ► and a high-end Mac Mini and maybe Myke's bigger iMac,

01:13:45 ◼   ► a great place for a Pro chip.

01:13:47 ◼   ► And so Mac Mini's updated to include

01:13:50 ◼   ► more than one system on a chip option.

01:13:52 ◼   ► I feel pretty good about that one.

01:13:54 ◼   ► - Okay, very nice.

01:13:56 ◼   ► All right, my flexes, number one.

01:13:59 ◼   ► There will be new ways to invoke Siri by voice

01:14:03 ◼   ► instead of saying, "Hey Siri."

01:14:06 ◼   ► And now I just realized I may be triggering

01:14:09 ◼   ► other people's devices, I'm sorry.

01:14:11 ◼   ► But yeah. - Nah, it's pretty good.

01:14:13 ◼   ► - New ways to invoke Siri by voice

01:14:15 ◼   ► instead of using that default invocation phrase.

01:14:19 ◼   ► - Okay, I just have a question,

01:14:21 ◼   ► not ready to your flux in terms of scoring.

01:14:24 ◼   ► I know with Amazon,

01:14:26 ◼   ► you can choose a couple of different words.

01:14:29 ◼   ► Do you see Apple doing that or that is dropping the hay?

01:14:32 ◼   ► - Yeah, the rumor that we saw a few weeks ago

01:14:36 ◼   ► said that Apple was working on removing the hay part

01:14:40 ◼   ► and just saying Siri.

01:14:41 ◼   ► I would actually prefer like a custom invocation phrase,

01:14:44 ◼   ► but I understand that maybe Apple doesn't like

01:14:47 ◼   ► that approach and then, you know.

01:14:48 ◼   ► Branding baby!

01:14:49 ◼   ► It's branding.

01:14:50 ◼   ► It's branding.

01:14:51 ◼   ► Because Siri has such a good positive brand that people like and appreciate, you know

01:14:56 ◼   ► what I mean?

01:14:57 ◼   ► Sure.

01:14:58 ◼   ► Number two, Apple will revive the HomePod line with new devices.

01:15:05 ◼   ► I think they gotta do something here, right?

01:15:07 ◼   ► Is that a plural?

01:15:09 ◼   ► These two go hand in hand.

01:15:11 ◼   ► New devices, plural.

01:15:12 ◼   ► Yes.

01:15:13 ◼   ► More than one new device.

01:15:14 ◼   ► So if they make just a new HomePod, that is not enough.

01:15:18 ◼   ► They gotta make more new HomePods, excluding the HomePod mini.

01:15:23 ◼   ► What about an update to the HomePod mini?

01:15:25 ◼   ► No, it doesn't qualify.

01:15:26 ◼   ► New devices.

01:15:27 ◼   ► New device?

01:15:28 ◼   ► I like it.

01:15:29 ◼   ► Personally, what I would like to have, this was actually supposed to be my risky pick.

01:15:35 ◼   ► I want to have a HomePod soundbar.

01:15:37 ◼   ► I want Apple to make a HomePod soundbar.

01:15:40 ◼   ► Or just, I don't know, make wild things.

01:15:43 ◼   ► We talked about that idea of a HomePod with support for placing an iPad on top of it.

01:15:50 ◼   ► That was something that Google is doing.

01:15:52 ◼   ► Home, like the iPad dock thing.

01:15:53 ◼   ► Like, yeah, Google is doing the Nest Hub dock, whatever it's called.

01:15:57 ◼   ► It's supposed to be coming out in the spring, I think.

01:16:00 ◼   ► But yeah, do wild things and do more things with the HomePod.

01:16:04 ◼   ► Here's my ideal device here, right?

01:16:07 ◼   ► HomePod soundbar with an integrated Apple TV.

01:16:10 ◼   ► Mmm, yes.

01:16:11 ◼   ► And a camera.

01:16:12 ◼   ► Yes.

01:16:13 ◼   ► Yes, yes. That's what I want it to be. To all of that, absolutely. Number three, AirPods

01:16:19 ◼   ► Max 2 will ship during the year. I realize now I don't want to I don't want them to be

01:16:26 ◼   ► called AirPods Max 2. So let's just say second generation AirPods Max will ship during the

01:16:32 ◼   ► year. Number four, there is no second gen Apple Watch Ultra this year. I don't know.

01:16:41 ◼   ► I don't think it's on an annual schedule.

01:16:43 ◼   ► I don't know.

01:16:44 ◼   ► This just, I don't know.

01:16:46 ◼   ► It doesn't strike me as the kind of product

01:16:47 ◼   ► that they will release every year, you know?

01:16:51 ◼   ► - You think it's every two

01:16:52 ◼   ► or do you think it'd go to like an 18 month?

01:16:54 ◼   ► - 18 month or maybe every two years,

01:16:56 ◼   ► but it's like, kind of feels like the Mac Pro

01:16:59 ◼   ► of Apple watches that every time they do it,

01:17:01 ◼   ► it's gotta be special in some new and important ways.

01:17:05 ◼   ► I don't know.

01:17:06 ◼   ► I would be surprised to see

01:17:07 ◼   ► an Apple Watch Ultra 2 this year again.

01:17:10 ◼   ► I agree with what you're saying there of like they don't need to do the "hey we gave it

01:17:14 ◼   ► an extra hour battery life" like that's not important right? I think that there is a sense

01:17:19 ◼   ► in like it's got to have a new feature. Interesting. I can see that.

01:17:25 ◼   ► Number five? I'm hoping this happens now. Apple brings new actions to shortcuts to control

01:17:34 ◼   ► Windows on iPad OS. We talked about this.

01:17:38 ◼   ► Pure manifesting.

01:17:39 ◼   ► I am manifesting with this one and the next one.

01:17:41 ◼   ► So I'm just gonna go in order here.

01:17:43 ◼   ► Apple releases new developer APIs for stage manager.

01:17:47 ◼   ► This applies to both Mac OS and iPad OS.

01:17:50 ◼   ► As we talked about, there is no developer framework

01:17:53 ◼   ► whatsoever for stage manager.

01:17:56 ◼   ► I am manifesting that there will be one

01:17:59 ◼   ► by this time next year.

01:18:00 ◼   ► - I chuckled at new developer APIs because they're none.

01:18:03 ◼   ► (laughs)

01:18:04 ◼   ► Any developer API.

01:18:06 ◼   ► - Any developer.

01:18:07 ◼   ► And number seven, I'm going for seven again.

01:18:11 ◼   ► At least one Twitter app update will be rejected

01:18:16 ◼   ► from the App Store.

01:18:18 ◼   ► - 100%, that will happen.

01:18:20 ◼   ► - How will we know this though?

01:18:22 ◼   ► - There'll be a PR thing.

01:18:24 ◼   ► - Elon will tweet it.

01:18:25 ◼   ► - Yeah, Elon will tweet it.

01:18:27 ◼   ► - Actually, I think for this to be true,

01:18:28 ◼   ► we need a source other than Elon.

01:18:30 ◼   ► - I don't think that could, that is possible, right?

01:18:33 ◼   ► - How, Apple will never say anything.

01:18:35 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:18:36 ◼   ► and Twitter doesn't have a PR--

01:18:37 ◼   ► - Well they might, they gave, they did about Parler,

01:18:40 ◼   ► like they gave like, you know,

01:18:43 ◼   ► we want them to update the moderation,

01:18:46 ◼   ► but like Apple gave--

01:18:47 ◼   ► - But no, I don't wanna clarify that though, it might be--

01:18:50 ◼   ► - Yeah, I don't think it's necessary for a Flexi.

01:18:53 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:18:54 ◼   ► - You guys went with seven, can I add one?

01:18:57 ◼   ► - Sure.

01:18:57 ◼   ► - I've done this before, I'm at six.

01:18:59 ◼   ► - Sure.

01:19:00 ◼   ► - All right, Apple releases a new monitor.

01:19:06 ◼   ► - Ooh, okay, okay, I like it, I like it.

01:19:10 ◼   ► Oh, you know what I also want?

01:19:12 ◼   ► - I've got seven, everyone else is on seven.

01:19:14 ◼   ► - This is not part of the pick, but just as we're talking,

01:19:18 ◼   ► if they're making new HomePod devices,

01:19:19 ◼   ► you know what I want?

01:19:20 ◼   ► I want a portable HomePod.

01:19:22 ◼   ► Give me a portable HomePod, like a Sonos Roam,

01:19:25 ◼   ► but it's a HomePod.

01:19:27 ◼   ► Oh gosh, yeah.

01:19:28 ◼   ► - Sonos Roam is a superb product.

01:19:30 ◼   ► - I know, I think I'm gonna get a pair of those

01:19:35 ◼   ► for my desk.

01:19:37 ◼   ► - They're really good.

01:19:38 ◼   ► I don't think you need a pair for your desk.

01:19:39 ◼   ► They're huge Federico.

01:19:40 ◼   ► - No, you're thinking of the Move.

01:19:42 ◼   ► - Oh, sorry.

01:19:44 ◼   ► - Yeah.

01:19:45 ◼   ► The Roam is the smaller one.

01:19:46 ◼   ► Still portable.

01:19:47 ◼   ► - The Move.

01:19:48 ◼   ► - Still can be used over Wi-Fi.

01:19:50 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:19:51 ◼   ► - Move is great.

01:19:53 ◼   ► - OTJ has the Move.

01:19:54 ◼   ► OTJ has the Move and he likes it.

01:19:56 ◼   ► - Uh-huh.

01:19:57 ◼   ► I heard it on AppSource.

01:19:59 ◼   ► - So that's it, I think.

01:20:02 ◼   ► We did it.

01:20:03 ◼   ► - Okay.

01:20:04 ◼   ► the flexes. If you want to find the handful of links that we have this week

01:20:09 ◼   ► go over to the show notes at relay.fm/connected/431. You can find us all

01:20:17 ◼   ► online. Myke hosts a bunch of other shows here on Relay FM and hosts the Friday

01:20:23 ◼   ► Keyboard Club at Myke.Live most Fridays. Do you have one coming up? Couldn't tell

01:20:28 ◼   ► you. We're recording in advance so I have no idea. Recording in advance. Let's keep

01:20:33 ◼   ► Keep an eye on Backdoor Live.

01:20:34 ◼   ► Who knows?

01:20:35 ◼   ► Make it your homepage.

01:20:36 ◼   ► You know, who knows?

01:20:37 ◼   ► You can find Federico, he's the editor-in-chief of MacStories.net.

01:20:41 ◼   ► Make MacStories your homepage as well.

01:20:43 ◼   ► They have a bunch of good stuff.

01:20:44 ◼   ► Two browsers.

01:20:45 ◼   ► Apple Frames.

01:20:46 ◼   ► Two Apple Frames.

01:20:47 ◼   ► Shortcuts, app reviews, all sorts of fun stuff.

01:20:51 ◼   ► You can find...

01:20:52 ◼   ► Why are you laughing?

01:20:53 ◼   ► I'm fun...

01:20:54 ◼   ► The homepage thing is funny.

01:20:55 ◼   ► Look, we don't have Twitter accounts to read anymore.

01:20:57 ◼   ► I haven't settled on a new ending of the show, and it's very hard for me.

01:21:01 ◼   ► Okay?

01:21:02 ◼   ► to give you notes about my outro, you know? Yeah, because you don't like to promote your keyboard

01:21:07 ◼   ► thing. Oh, I would much prefer to promote the, like, Cortex brand. Well, that's... I can't do that.

01:21:14 ◼   ► That's crossing the streams. No, no, no, no, no, no. Why? If we can promote Mac stories and promote

01:21:19 ◼   ► 512 pixels. Okay, I'll just start over. Here's what I'm gonna do. You have to start over. No,

01:21:24 ◼   ► we're gonna rewind. This should all stay in, you know? Re-wound, okay?

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01:21:50 ◼   ► In January,

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01:22:00 ◼   ► I've been working on these Apple Frames updates for ages now.

01:22:05 ◼   ► I think when I come back from my break,

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01:22:56 ◼   ► - And returning everything.

01:22:57 ◼   ► - Returning everything.

01:22:59 ◼   ► - You're on a list at Amazon, for sure.

01:23:01 ◼   ► Thank you for listening.

01:23:02 ◼   ► We are excited about what 2023 may hold

01:23:06 ◼   ► and we'll have a winner again very soon.

01:23:09 ◼   ► Until next time guys, say goodbye.

01:23:11 ◼   ► - Glad to be there with you.

01:23:12 ◼   ► - Cheerio. - Bye y'all.