Connected

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00:00:08 ◼   ► Hello and welcome to Connected, episode 327, "The Rickies Early 2021."

00:00:16 ◼   ► I'm your host, Steven Hackett, and I am joined by my friend, Mr. Myke Hurley.

00:00:21 ◼   ► Happy New Year, everybody!

00:00:23 ◼   ► Happy New Year!

00:00:24 ◼   ► I am so excited for today's episode, because we get to read the rules again.

00:00:29 ◼   ► We're gonna read the rules. I'm also gonna thank our sponsors because I got distracted by the title.

00:00:33 ◼   ► And me.

00:00:33 ◼   ► This episode is made possible by Squarespace, Smile, and Pingdom.

00:00:37 ◼   ► And we're also joined by Mr. Federico Vatici.

00:00:40 ◼   ► Hey babe, how are you?

00:00:42 ◼   ► Hey man. Wow, that's nice.

00:00:44 ◼   ► Happy new year.

00:00:45 ◼   ► If you would like to know why that just happened, you should become a connected pro member

00:00:51 ◼   ► by going to connected pro- what's the URL? I never remember it.

00:00:55 ◼   ► Oh my god, I never remember it.

00:00:57 ◼   ► No, again.

00:00:58 ◼   ► relay.fm/connected/join

00:01:02 ◼   ► No, that's not so catchy, but it's easy to remember. You can't remember the other one.

00:01:06 ◼   ► I think it's connectedpro.co

00:01:10 ◼   ► Wait, why is it .co?

00:01:13 ◼   ► Because Steven liked it.

00:01:15 ◼   ► Steven liked it and now no one can remember it.

00:01:18 ◼   ► Connectedpro.co

00:01:19 ◼   ► Does it rhyme though?

00:01:20 ◼   ► Like does it?

00:01:21 ◼   ► Pro.co? It's not a rhyme.

00:01:23 ◼   ► Connectedpro.co

00:01:25 ◼   ► That's not a rhyme. If you go to... Wait, which one is it? Is it connectedpro.co or

00:01:34 ◼   ► is it getconnected? It is? No, there's no get. Why do you keep saying this? No, because

00:01:38 ◼   ► I have get domains. getconnectedpro.com also works. Yeah. Oh my god. Well, it will work.

00:01:45 ◼   ► I haven't directed them to the new address yet. It's like we don't want people to give

00:01:49 ◼   ► us money. So, Steven, can you just do that again? Tell people very clearly. Where can

00:01:54 ◼   ► they get the members only pre and post show? Well I would go... Oh don't do it. No no it's not an opinion.

00:02:01 ◼   ► Not this terrible domain that you keep using the fun catchy ones.

00:02:07 ◼   ► connectedpro.co. And have you forwarded that to the correct place? It currently

00:02:14 ◼   ► directs to the monthly plan. Okay but that's not where you want it to go is it?

00:02:19 ◼   ► No I want it to go to relay.fm/connected/join. Right. But I haven't set

00:02:23 ◼   ► that up yet. What I will say though is if you go to getconnectedpro.co you

00:02:28 ◼   ► will go to the right place because I manage that one. getconnectedpro.co

00:02:33 ◼   ► yes it does very very nice. No that goes to the silver plan too, the monthly plan.

00:02:38 ◼   ► Well you've got to wait for DNS propagation you know like I can't be in

00:02:40 ◼   ► control of everything here. DNS is terrible. Mm-hmm takes time but anyway if

00:02:46 ◼   ► you want to know why we're calling Steven Babe now well become a member.

00:02:52 ◼   ► I think we just gotta say something, don't we?

00:02:54 ◼   ► Well, we can't pretend that we live out of time.

00:02:57 ◼   ► It's true.

00:02:58 ◼   ► So, we're recording this on Thursday, January 7th, we're a day-

00:03:02 ◼   ► Luckily.

00:03:03 ◼   ► Huh?

00:03:04 ◼   ► Luckily?

00:03:05 ◼   ► Luckily.

00:03:06 ◼   ► Luckily.

00:03:07 ◼   ► Just pure coincidence that we moved the show by a day, which is awesome.

00:03:09 ◼   ► Yes.

00:03:10 ◼   ► Somebody had a holiday something, or family, I don't know.

00:03:13 ◼   ► I don't remember why we moved things.

00:03:14 ◼   ► Anyways, we're a day later than normal-

00:03:16 ◼   ► I think Federico was partying.

00:03:17 ◼   ► Yesterday, January 6th, saw just a terrible display here in the United States.

00:03:23 ◼   ► I mean, I speak for, I think, almost everybody.

00:03:26 ◼   ► I basically just stopped working after lunch and watched the news until I couldn't take

00:03:30 ◼   ► it anymore, and my wife said, "You have to stop doomscrolling and go to bed."

00:03:34 ◼   ► I mean, I don't know what to say.

00:03:36 ◼   ► It's really infuriating and heartbreaking at the same time that people have been led

00:03:42 ◼   ► to believe the things they believe about the way our country works.

00:03:46 ◼   ► And I know we have friends and listeners, even members in the Relay Discord who live

00:03:50 ◼   ► in DC.

00:03:51 ◼   ► Thankfully, everyone is safe, but it was a terrible thing to witness to think that this

00:03:57 ◼   ► sort of thing can happen in the US was a little shocking.

00:04:02 ◼   ► Yep.

00:04:03 ◼   ► Eye-opening.

00:04:04 ◼   ► Shocking, but not surprising, if that makes sense.

00:04:07 ◼   ► Yep.

00:04:08 ◼   ► But we have a bunch of tech stuff to talk about.

00:04:13 ◼   ► We got the RICCIs, so we can move on.

00:04:15 ◼   ► The show must go on.

00:04:16 ◼   ► Wait, what did you say?

00:04:17 ◼   ► I said, "The show must go on."

00:04:19 ◼   ► The show must go on.

00:04:20 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:04:21 ◼   ► Have you ever heard this phrase before?

00:04:23 ◼   ► Is this new to you?

00:04:24 ◼   ► The show must...

00:04:25 ◼   ► What a great phrase.

00:04:26 ◼   ► Did you come up with that?

00:04:28 ◼   ► That's great.

00:04:29 ◼   ► Man, you should put that on a bumper sticker.

00:04:31 ◼   ► I'm gonna put it on a t-shirt or something.

00:04:33 ◼   ► So much.

00:04:34 ◼   ► That'll be the new Connected t-shirt.

00:04:36 ◼   ► The show must go on?

00:04:37 ◼   ► The show must go on.

00:04:38 ◼   ► Nice.

00:04:39 ◼   ► It has a Capitol building.

00:04:41 ◼   ► The show must go on, babe.

00:04:42 ◼   ► Let's start follow-up with Dr. Drang.

00:04:45 ◼   ► It's a good place to start follow-up.

00:04:47 ◼   ► So we have spoken about needing to recalculate the Hackett number, which is the number of

00:04:52 ◼   ► computers in my household against the number of people.

00:04:57 ◼   ► That's a fixed number at 20.6, as we described in a recent episode.

00:05:03 ◼   ► But Dr. Drang, I think anytime we talk about math, which is going to happen later, so I'm

00:05:08 ◼   ► going to apologize to Drang in advance that we have more math talk coming later, but he

00:05:14 ◼   ► recommended that future calculations of the collection should be reported in terms of

00:05:19 ◼   ► the Hackett ratio.

00:05:21 ◼   ► So it's the computers per household member then divided by the Hackett number.

00:05:27 ◼   ► And I think that...

00:05:28 ◼   ► I'm a little bit confused.

00:05:29 ◼   ► I'm not going to lie.

00:05:30 ◼   ► I mean, he's...

00:05:31 ◼   ► I've already lost...

00:05:32 ◼   ► He's an engineer.

00:05:33 ◼   ► Yeah, I read Drang's tweet and I was like, "Yeah, I don't understand that."

00:05:35 ◼   ► Okay.

00:05:36 ◼   ► - Frank, send us a link to the blog post

00:05:38 ◼   ► telling us young boys how math works.

00:05:41 ◼   ► - Yeah, no, I don't get it.

00:05:44 ◼   ► So what is it like, because the Hackett number's fixed,

00:05:47 ◼   ► if we now wanna work out something by the Hackett number,

00:05:51 ◼   ► it now needs its own name.

00:05:53 ◼   ► So the Hackett ratio is everybody's own number.

00:05:57 ◼   ► - So the Hackett ratio would be the current Hackett number,

00:06:01 ◼   ► if you will, so the current number of computers

00:06:04 ◼   ► divided by the number of people in the house,

00:06:06 ◼   ► and that, the relationship between that and the original number.

00:06:11 ◼   ► So say, I don't know what the number is because I haven't done this yet.

00:06:13 ◼   ► I'm not sure that Babe understands this either.

00:06:15 ◼   ► No, no, no, no.

00:06:16 ◼   ► I just wanted an explanation and it's getting worse.

00:06:20 ◼   ► In this moment you can sell me anything, I'm not following.

00:06:23 ◼   ► I will buy literally everything you're saying, Babe.

00:06:27 ◼   ► I have no idea.

00:06:29 ◼   ► I'll figure the new number, and let's say the new number is 30.6.

00:06:34 ◼   ► What is the number?

00:06:35 ◼   ► The number being the number of computers in the household into divided by the number of people in the household. Okay, so

00:06:41 ◼   ► Okay, okay. Okay. Yes. This is the thing that we invented. Yes, right. So let's say the new one is 30.6

00:06:49 ◼   ► Yes, so the Hackett ratio would describe the relationship between the new number and the constant. Wait, what is a constant?

00:06:57 ◼   ► The constant is 20.6 the original Hackett number

00:07:02 ◼   ► So what you would get at the end of this is I am you know one point two times

00:07:07 ◼   ► More in trouble than I was originally because I've got that many more computers and that's the Hackett ratio. Yes

00:07:14 ◼   ► But if I calculate it is it a Hackett ratio or is it only a Hackett ratio if it's you? I

00:07:20 ◼   ► Mean any well, how would you do it? I mean you got to come over here and count everything

00:07:24 ◼   ► No, but like if I did my own calculation of what is mine? Yeah

00:07:28 ◼   ► Yeah, you would be like you would have a negative ratio.

00:07:33 ◼   ► You don't know, but that's the thing, right?

00:07:36 ◼   ► So what we're seeing now is the Hackett number, you don't calculate your own Hackett number

00:07:40 ◼   ► because there's only one Hackett number.

00:07:42 ◼   ► You calculate your own Hackett ratio, which is figured out by multiplying or dividing

00:07:48 ◼   ► by the Hackett number.

00:07:50 ◼   ► Okay.

00:07:51 ◼   ► Yep.

00:07:52 ◼   ► Great.

00:07:53 ◼   ► We got there then.

00:07:54 ◼   ► Wait, but who asked for the Hackett ratio?

00:07:55 ◼   ► I think we accidentally described it on the show and then Drang tried to clarify it, but

00:08:00 ◼   ► clearly our lack of...

00:08:02 ◼   ► I think we kept getting confused about how to calculate what the Hackett number was because

00:08:10 ◼   ► we kept calling it Hackett number.

00:08:12 ◼   ► Up next, AirPods Max.

00:08:14 ◼   ► I retarded mine.

00:08:16 ◼   ► You did do it.

00:08:17 ◼   ► Oh.

00:08:18 ◼   ► Yep, they're gone.

00:08:19 ◼   ► Really?

00:08:20 ◼   ► You give them back.

00:08:22 ◼   ► Yeah, they sounded great.

00:08:23 ◼   ► I loved the way they sounded, but they were just too heavy.

00:08:26 ◼   ► Interesting. Was that the reason?

00:08:29 ◼   ► Yes. I find mine comfortable.

00:08:32 ◼   ► I use them every day for multiple hours.

00:08:34 ◼   ► I have one complaint, which is the battery life ain't that great.

00:08:38 ◼   ► Really? Yeah.

00:08:41 ◼   ► I feel like I'm charging them every day or so.

00:08:44 ◼   ► You don't have that with my AirPods.

00:08:47 ◼   ► And I guess the reason is the AirPods Max battery, I guess, is less

00:08:51 ◼   ► than the other AirPods because it doesn't have a battery case to recharge them again,

00:08:57 ◼   ► right?

00:08:58 ◼   ► How many, for how long do you wear them each day?

00:09:01 ◼   ► Multiple hours.

00:09:02 ◼   ► Multiple.

00:09:03 ◼   ► Like two or six or seven, like what is multiple?

00:09:07 ◼   ► Let's say four or five.

00:09:08 ◼   ► I have noticed though as well, like I really have noticed that under certain circumstances

00:09:14 ◼   ► and I don't know what they are, the battery is draining faster at certain times.

00:09:19 ◼   ► I don't know if maybe I'm putting them down in such a way that the sensors are still triggering

00:09:24 ◼   ► or something, like if I don't put them in their very fancy case.

00:09:27 ◼   ► But like I know that there was one day last week where I charged them the night before

00:09:32 ◼   ► and then used them, I put them down on my desk when I was done for the day and the next

00:09:36 ◼   ► day they were completely dead.

00:09:38 ◼   ► So I think I'm having some kind of battery discharging issue in certain circumstances.

00:09:45 ◼   ► So I haven't done anything scientific but basically the thing is you know how

00:09:50 ◼   ► you feel like you don't really notice when you charge your AirPods right? It's

00:09:54 ◼   ► just like you don't think about it you just charge them every now and then and

00:09:57 ◼   ► it's fine. I'm feeling like I'm having to charge my AirPods Max more intentionally

00:10:03 ◼   ► than my regular AirPods. It's almost as if the case they designed is a total

00:10:06 ◼   ► failure. Do I bet the case... Almost. Even if the case was designed well it wouldn't

00:10:11 ◼   ► helped I don't know if it too much because like I think the difference is

00:10:15 ◼   ► like I think it's the charging nature of the case yeah just make a giant case

00:10:20 ◼   ► with a huge battery in it that can charge yeah because Apple says you're

00:10:24 ◼   ► supposed to get 20 hours so clearly something is is up yeah I don't know I

00:10:29 ◼   ► don't know what to do I don't know what the deal is I'd love to know if other

00:10:32 ◼   ► people are having this or if it's just something that you know maybe we can

00:10:35 ◼   ► rule out you doing something weird that you're not aware of I think that they

00:10:39 ◼   ► could just there's like a few things that could be going on right well like

00:10:42 ◼   ► sometimes I could use my AirPods and then just put the case on charge like

00:10:47 ◼   ► and I'm not really thinking about it like you can't do that with the AirPods

00:10:51 ◼   ► Max right it's like you're either using them or you're charging them you can't

00:10:56 ◼   ► charge them and use them really and like a convenient way where with the regular

00:11:01 ◼   ► AirPods I can use the AirPods and I'm draining their battery while its case is

00:11:05 ◼   ► getting a charge. So you know like I think that that also maybe reduces the

00:11:10 ◼   ► amount of times that I notice the AirPods themselves as reducing as like

00:11:15 ◼   ► lowering their battery which is just not the case with the Max it's like it's

00:11:19 ◼   ► more of a traditional tech product then right where like charging it kind of is

00:11:26 ◼   ► a thing that you do when you're not using it or like you can do it at the

00:11:30 ◼   ► same time but it's not seamless where I think with the regular AirPods with their

00:11:35 ◼   ► charging case is you can very easily just leave the case somewhere charging

00:11:39 ◼   ► especially if you use wireless charging and so I just think that there's maybe a

00:11:44 ◼   ► situation where like the product is different and I'm just noticing it more

00:11:47 ◼   ► because it's close enough to my regular AirPods that it just I can see it as a

00:11:51 ◼   ► place of comparison. Nevertheless I love them oh my god the the noise cancelling

00:11:58 ◼   ► It's so good. So, so good. I am continually impressed by these headphones and I enjoy

00:12:05 ◼   ► using them very much.

00:12:08 ◼   ► What about you Federico? Any additional thoughts a few weeks in?

00:12:11 ◼   ► I've been using them not as frequently as mic I think. I mostly try to stay offline

00:12:22 ◼   ► for the past few weeks and therefore using my Sony Walkman and my wired Sony headphones.

00:12:29 ◼   ► So I haven't really used them multiple hours each day but I like them. I confirm my comment from

00:12:38 ◼   ► a few episodes back, these are going to be my main wireless headphones. Like I used them today again

00:12:44 ◼   ► when I was trying to get some work done. I like them, they're not as, you know, they don't sound

00:12:50 ◼   ► nearly as good as my other wired headphones, but in terms of wireless headphones, they're the best

00:12:57 ◼   ► ones that I have. So I really like them, the noise cancellation is good, Siri I don't particularly

00:13:03 ◼   ► care about, and the digital crown works. And the case is stupid, but I'm waiting for the

00:13:09 ◼   ► Waterfield Designs case to arrive at some point for the next few days, I think. So yeah, I like them.

00:13:16 ◼   ► Steven, have you considered the fact that maybe it's not the AirPods Max that are too heavy,

00:13:20 ◼   ► but that in your old age it is your neck that doesn't offer enough support anymore?

00:13:26 ◼   ► Yeah, pencil neck.

00:13:28 ◼   ► That was my only question for you.

00:13:31 ◼   ► Wow. I hope that's not the case.

00:13:34 ◼   ► Well, you know, some food for thought for you over the next few days.

00:13:39 ◼   ► Yeah, my brittle bones, can't take the weight.

00:13:43 ◼   ► No, I think I'm just... I think I'm just overly sensitive to head pressure.

00:13:52 ◼   ► I feel like I'm sensitive to headphones or anything that are heavy, or like a hat that's too tight,

00:13:58 ◼   ► or if I've got to come a hair back in a bandana or something, like if it's too tight. I feel very

00:14:03 ◼   ► sensitive to those things, so I may just be... I may just be too weak for my head to be squeezed.

00:14:09 ◼   ► Well, I hope that's not the case.

00:14:11 ◼   ► Real quick before we move on to our topics, I did just want to point people to episode

00:14:17 ◼   ► 11 of Flashback, my show with Quinn Nelson.

00:14:21 ◼   ► It is back for season two.

00:14:22 ◼   ► This is the show where we talk about failed tech products and this season we're looking

00:14:27 ◼   ► at them through the lens of kind of where those companies or markets are now.

00:14:32 ◼   ► So episode 11 is about the Nexus Q which is this failed Google media streamer, kind of

00:14:37 ◼   ► like the Chromecast before the Chromecast but it never actually went on

00:14:41 ◼   ► sale and they took a bunch of pre-orders and had to give people their money back

00:14:44 ◼   ► it was really bad. Let's talk about that and then set top boxes it was a lot of fun.

00:14:49 ◼   ► I am looking forward to listen to it I have not yet please forgive me but I am

00:14:53 ◼   ► pleased the show is back. As a little teaser Quinn is listening to connected

00:14:57 ◼   ► right now Quinn I'm gonna tell people what we're doing in episode 12 we're

00:15:00 ◼   ► gonna talk about the Amazon Fire phone and then we're going oh then we're going

00:15:05 ◼   ► We're going to draft weird Amazon products.

00:15:08 ◼   ► Okay.

00:15:09 ◼   ► Okay.

00:15:10 ◼   ► Episode 12 will be fun.

00:15:11 ◼   ► Like products that you found on Amazon or made by Amazon?

00:15:16 ◼   ► Weird products made by Amazon.

00:15:17 ◼   ► So you know that they make a microwave with the Echo Assistant built in.

00:15:21 ◼   ► Like why?

00:15:22 ◼   ► Why do you do that?

00:15:23 ◼   ► So nice.

00:15:24 ◼   ► Go check it out.

00:15:26 ◼   ► Just before we begin the Ricky's today, I wanted to just know, I feel like that there

00:15:31 ◼   ► is a constant theme on this show of charging solutions and I saw today that Anker have

00:15:39 ◼   ► released their MagSafe charging stuff. Well at least they've announced that they're going

00:15:46 ◼   ► to release it which is kind of weird but it's coming. They've got two products. One is a

00:15:50 ◼   ► $22 MagSafe charging puck which is capped at 7.5 watts so it can't do any faster charging

00:15:59 ◼   ► than that. And it has a really weird chunky USB connector. So I invite you all to look

00:16:05 ◼   ► at the link in the show notes to see this. So are you guys looking at this image right

00:16:12 ◼   ► now? Yeah. Why is it so big? So that's the USB-C connector. It makes it look like it's

00:16:18 ◼   ► a USB mini or something. And it's apparently because this is pretty much just a standard

00:16:25 ◼   ► Qi charger it's not doing anything special because it seems like there's

00:16:29 ◼   ► just a little bit of secret sauce as they call it in Apple's charging solution

00:16:33 ◼   ► for MagSafe so to make it super thin and to make it all fit correctly which

00:16:38 ◼   ► basically all that's in the little disk part the puck part is the coils and a

00:16:44 ◼   ► lot of the like technology stuff that's required to make one of these Qi

00:16:48 ◼   ► chargers work is housed inside of the USB C connector instead. Interesting

00:16:54 ◼   ► choice? Well I mean what it does is it allows for it to be still a thin and

00:16:58 ◼   ► small just circular connector right you can still connect by magnets and get all

00:17:03 ◼   ► of the benefit that you get from MagSafe and really it's like whilst that looks

00:17:07 ◼   ► weird it's gonna be plugged somewhere right like you're not gonna deal with it

00:17:11 ◼   ► and it's a 1.5 meter cable so it's half a meter longer than Apple's cable which

00:17:16 ◼   ► is great but the I think the real good product here is they have a another

00:17:22 ◼   ► product which is like a stand, what do they call it? The PowerWave MagSafe charging stand.

00:17:30 ◼   ► So it's like a MagSafe charger suspended, kind of like how the screen on the Magic Keyboard

00:17:40 ◼   ► for the iPad Pro is suspended, it's not particularly like that but you get what I'm saying. You

00:17:46 ◼   ► You can charge vertically or horizontally and the magsafe part where you clip your phone

00:17:52 ◼   ► to can also be tilted which is kind of nice.

00:17:55 ◼   ► And then the base of the charger is also a Qi charger so you could charge your headphones

00:18:01 ◼   ► and charge your iPhone at the same time.

00:18:04 ◼   ► This looks super cool and it's $36.

00:18:07 ◼   ► So is it or is it not magsafe?

00:18:09 ◼   ► It is magsafe yes.

00:18:11 ◼   ► But it's not but it's Anker's magsafe right?

00:18:14 ◼   ► I don't think that they're MFI certified or whatever.

00:18:18 ◼   ► So the first one, the Verge article says "Here's why Anker's MagSafe style charger has a gigantic

00:18:25 ◼   ► USB-C plug.

00:18:26 ◼   ► Subtitle.

00:18:28 ◼   ► It's because it's not actually MagSafe."

00:18:30 ◼   ► So I'm very confused.

00:18:31 ◼   ► It's not Apple's MagSafe.

00:18:33 ◼   ► It's working like a MagSafe charger.

00:18:35 ◼   ► It's got magnets in it, it's doing Qi charging and whatever, but it seems like that they've

00:18:40 ◼   ► not gone through whatever you have to go through to get that official "here you go" from Apple.

00:18:46 ◼   ► Oh, the MagSafe like brand? Okay, okay, got it. Right, like it's not, I don't know, like

00:18:51 ◼   ► it's called MFI certified or whatever, they've not done that. They've just reverse engineered

00:18:55 ◼   ► it. It's a Qi charger with magnets in it. Got it. Okay. Right, which is also why it

00:18:59 ◼   ► doesn't get the faster speed. So it's like quote unquote MagSafe. Yeah, it's magnetically

00:19:05 ◼   ► safe charging is what they should call it and then we'll all know what it means. But

00:19:10 ◼   ► I think it's cool. I think it's cool that these products do exist because it's different price points and it's different use cases.

00:19:16 ◼   ► And so I'm into it. I'm going to keep my eye on the the sand one.

00:19:21 ◼   ► I think that looks like a pretty cool product.

00:19:23 ◼   ► You could charge your day phone on the top and the night phone at the bottom.

00:19:26 ◼   ► Yep.

00:19:27 ◼   ► Because it's laying down. You have a little blanket for him.

00:19:29 ◼   ► Be great.

00:19:32 ◼   ► Good night phone.

00:19:34 ◼   ► So today we will be judging our annual picks for 2020.

00:19:39 ◼   ► The annual Chairman Twitter account is up for grabs.

00:19:44 ◼   ► And then we will be making our picks for the Ricky's

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00:21:41 ◼   ► - Please read the Bill of Rickeys.

00:21:44 ◼   ► - The Bill of Rickeys.

00:21:46 ◼   ► The winner who should be called keynote chairman

00:21:50 ◼   ► from the previous Ricky's--

00:21:52 ◼   ► - Daniel Chairman, right?

00:21:53 ◼   ► - Look at the bullet point, I'm getting there.

00:21:56 ◼   ► Oh okay, okay, okay.

00:21:57 ◼   ► What are those Corky note chairmen, are they in this instance?

00:22:00 ◼   ► They're called annual chairmen.

00:22:01 ◼   ► AMEND THE RULES!

00:22:02 ◼   ► AMEND THEM!

00:22:03 ◼   ► [Laughter]

00:22:06 ◼   ► It's time to amend the rules.

00:22:08 ◼   ► No!

00:22:09 ◼   ► It's right there.

00:22:10 ◼   ► The Bill of Rickeys.

00:22:11 ◼   ► Uninterrupted by Myke Hurley.

00:22:14 ◼   ► But it's wrong though!

00:22:15 ◼   ► No it's not!

00:22:16 ◼   ► Okay, so...

00:22:16 ◼   ► It is!

00:22:17 ◼   ► Okay.

00:22:18 ◼   ► So what we need to do...

00:22:19 ◼   ► [Laughter]

00:22:21 ◼   ► It's wrong.

00:22:22 ◼   ► Alright.

00:22:23 ◼   ► It should just be like the winner.

00:22:24 ◼   ► We did it shouldn't say who should be the keynote chairman.

00:22:27 ◼   ► Well, we need, we need.

00:22:28 ◼   ► So one thing I've noticed is we have a problem.

00:22:31 ◼   ► We need to identify that there's actually two different types of Rickies.

00:22:34 ◼   ► There's annual Rickies.

00:22:36 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:22:36 ◼   ► There's keynote Rickies.

00:22:37 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:22:38 ◼   ► So, um, maybe we just start there.

00:22:41 ◼   ► So there are two types.

00:22:45 ◼   ► The rules are being rewritten again, live on the show.

00:22:50 ◼   ► You're the one who interrupted.

00:22:51 ◼   ► We have a lot of stuff to talk about, but, Oh, we got to take care of this for Myke.

00:22:54 ◼   ► All you have to do is just remove who should be called keynote champion from the first sentence.

00:22:58 ◼   ► No, because if we're gonna remove anything we should make it clear.

00:23:01 ◼   ► Okay.

00:23:03 ◼   ► Annual and...

00:23:06 ◼   ► Annual Ricky's and keynote Ricky's. Okay.

00:23:09 ◼   ► Yes.

00:23:10 ◼   ► Because I guess this also leaves room for other types of Ricky.

00:23:14 ◼   ► Yes.

00:23:15 ◼   ► Because we did do the audio predictions once.

00:23:18 ◼   ► The soundies is what we called those I think.

00:23:20 ◼   ► [Laughter]

00:23:21 ◼   ► Wait, what?

00:23:22 ◼   ► Do you remember we did a set of audio-based predictions?

00:23:25 ◼   ► It was just about AirPods and HeadPods and all that stuff?

00:23:28 ◼   ► We did?

00:23:29 ◼   ► Yeah, it was a one-off thing.

00:23:30 ◼   ► But I like leaving the door open for things like that.

00:23:34 ◼   ► There was just so many rumors and things going on at that time

00:23:38 ◼   ► that we ended up just making a whole separate set of Ricky's

00:23:40 ◼   ► like halfway through the middle of a year or something.

00:23:43 ◼   ► This is getting longer.

00:23:45 ◼   ► I really feel bad for the listener who created the...

00:23:50 ◼   ► the beautiful Bill of Rickeys document,

00:23:54 ◼   ► 'cause every single time they have to change it,

00:23:57 ◼   ► provided they wanna keep it up to date.

00:23:59 ◼   ► I would also understand at this point

00:24:01 ◼   ► if they just told us to jump off a bridge, right?

00:24:04 ◼   ► Like, we're just done.

00:24:05 ◼   ► This is totally done.

00:24:06 ◼   ► We're dealing with our, every whim here.

00:24:11 ◼   ► And basically at the moment,

00:24:12 ◼   ► I'm filling time while Steven's writing in the document.

00:24:15 ◼   ► That's what's happening right now,

00:24:16 ◼   ► in case you hadn't guessed already.

00:24:18 ◼   ► - Okay. - I'm just vamping.

00:24:19 ◼   ► Okay, we have to agree to this change.

00:24:22 ◼   ► - I know, I'm putting this in front of the committee.

00:24:24 ◼   ► There are two types of rookies,

00:24:26 ◼   ► annual rookies and keynote rookies.

00:24:29 ◼   ► The winner of the annual rookies

00:24:31 ◼   ► is named the annual chairman and retains the rights

00:24:34 ◼   ► to the corresponding Twitter account for the full year.

00:24:38 ◼   ► - Nice. - The keynote rookies winner

00:24:39 ◼   ► is named the keynote chairman and retains the rights

00:24:41 ◼   ► to the corresponding Twitter account

00:24:43 ◼   ► until the next keynote is held.

00:24:45 ◼   ► - Nice.

00:24:47 ◼   ► Yeah, you did it, you did it.

00:24:48 ◼   ► I like it. - Mm-hmm, yep.

00:24:49 ◼   ► like that it's longer too so it takes no no no no I didn't get it I'm not smart

00:24:53 ◼   ► enough can you can you say that winner of the annual Ricky's is named annual

00:24:57 ◼   ► chairman and retains the rights to the corresponding Twitter account for the

00:25:02 ◼   ► full year I would say this position is awarded every January nice okay just make

00:25:10 ◼   ► keep making it longer the keynote Ricky's winner is named the keynote

00:25:14 ◼   ► chairman and retains the rights to the corresponding Twitter account until the

00:25:17 ◼   ► next keynote is held. Right. And then we go into the ordering. None of that's changed. Carry on.

00:25:25 ◼   ► So point one has been invented. Let's go to point two. Annual winners roll over to preserve the

00:25:33 ◼   ► order. For example, the 2019 annual winner gets to go first for the next annual picks.

00:25:40 ◼   ► Order of the keynote rookies is based on the previous Apple event. The loser goes last. To

00:25:47 ◼   ► earn any points everything written down in the prediction document must come

00:25:52 ◼   ► true. No half points may be awarded in any round and picks cannot be reused. One

00:25:58 ◼   ► point is awarded for any pick deemed correct in the first two rounds. Two

00:26:04 ◼   ► points will be awarded for the correct picks in the risky pick round. If your

00:26:09 ◼   ► risky pick is wrong you will lose a point and the other two hosts must agree

00:26:14 ◼   ► that your pick is "risky". The scoring window starts, I'm starting to say, for event

00:26:21 ◼   ► rookies. I would like to point out while you're writing something else, Josh in

00:26:26 ◼   ► the relay FM members discord has posted their version of the rules which is one

00:26:32 ◼   ► pick stuff, two grade stuff, three win stuff, which ultimately is all they need

00:26:38 ◼   ► to be but we're just not those type of people that could live by those three

00:26:41 ◼   ► simple rules. For event rookies the scoring window starts when the event

00:26:45 ◼   ► begins and closes when the picks are scored. Should say for keynote rookies

00:26:51 ◼   ► keynote rookies. The winner of the regular and risky picks must be granted access

00:26:57 ◼   ► to the annual or event chairman Twitter account and will retain access until

00:27:02 ◼   ► another winner is named. We also have the flexis so we should say as a point of

00:27:07 ◼   ► order. The flexi rules are introduced after we did the annual rookies for 2020, so these flexi

00:27:15 ◼   ► rules don't apply to this set of picks. So I'll read those. We do have the flexis, but there's no

00:27:21 ◼   ► money on the line. Right, so I will read those as we get there. Yeah, because we don't need those

00:27:26 ◼   ► until we're set in the 2021 predictions, right? Correct. Yeah, we don't retroactively apply rules,

00:27:34 ◼   ► Because that would just be silly. We're not savages. As a reminder, Federico is the current

00:27:40 ◼   ► annual chairman and Steven, that's me, Babe, is the current keynote chairman. Yes you are, babe.

00:27:50 ◼   ► Twitter handles are on the line. Well, one twitter handle. Federico's twitter handle.

00:27:55 ◼   ► Twitter handle. I could walk away with both. I would love a day where both of them are on

00:28:00 ◼   ► on the line at the same time. That would be fun, huh?

00:28:03 ◼   ► If Apple had a January event, it would be four hours long.

00:28:09 ◼   ► Oh, it would be forever. It would be great though, right?

00:28:13 ◼   ► Okay, so let's review the 2020 Rickies. Federico, you went first.

00:28:19 ◼   ► Just real quick before we start. Just because, you know, reflecting on

00:28:23 ◼   ► how weird 2020 has been, like just think back to

00:28:26 ◼   ► just where we were and how things were when we made these picks.

00:28:30 ◼   ► a different world. It wasn't just like how it normally is, where a year has passed. It's

00:28:35 ◼   ► just a completely different reality almost at this point. Anyway, please continue.

00:28:42 ◼   ► Okay, so I went first last year, and my first regular pick was "Apple will name a successor

00:28:52 ◼   ► to Steve Dowling, former head of public relations at Apple." And there was also a bullet point

00:28:58 ◼   ► saying either named by Apple officially or is reported by more than one outlet that a

00:29:04 ◼   ► person has been appointed.

00:29:06 ◼   ► What I like about this pick is that that secondary bullet was put into place to make it easier

00:29:12 ◼   ► on you to score it, right? Because I think we said at the time it is incredibly unlikely

00:29:18 ◼   ► that if they, well at least I think me and Steven felt that it was incredibly unlikely

00:29:21 ◼   ► that if there was a new head of PR that Apple would like release a press release about it.

00:29:27 ◼   ► Regardless, I was wrong, because there may be a new head of PR at Apple, but Apple hasn't

00:29:36 ◼   ► announced anyone, and no outlet has reported on anything, so no change.

00:29:42 ◼   ► I think the reason I always thought this was a difficult one for you is I don't know, I

00:29:48 ◼   ► don't recall it being public knowledge who the head of Apple PR was, you know what I

00:29:55 ◼   ► mean?

00:29:56 ◼   ► it was one of these rules like roles that they put on the leadership page or

00:29:59 ◼   ► whatever like Katie was it Katie cotton before Steve Dowling yes I think Steve

00:30:05 ◼   ► Dowling used to be on the leadership page really I think he was I think okay

00:30:11 ◼   ► yeah that's why that's why I had this pick yeah I don't think Katie cotton

00:30:15 ◼   ► ever was though but she was like right Steve Jobs style PR and she didn't last

00:30:19 ◼   ► very long under Tim Cook okay well nevertheless I always thought that it

00:30:23 ◼   ► was risky because it just didn't necessarily feel like a job to me that they would make

00:30:30 ◼   ► a big song and dance about. But, so yeah, you could be right Federico, right? There

00:30:35 ◼   ► could be someone who has this job. We just don't know who that is.

00:30:39 ◼   ► I guess, you know, Steve Dowling, like my, my context for this pick was used to be like

00:30:46 ◼   ► a very public figure. He was on the leadership page. Um, and, uh, and, and he had like, uh,

00:30:52 ◼   ► was the internal memo that was published announcing his departure. And I just figured, you know,

00:30:57 ◼   ► within the next 12 months, there's going to be a public thing where we have a new person

00:31:01 ◼   ► in charge. And, uh, but, but, but no, that hasn't happened. And, um, yeah, so this is

00:31:07 ◼   ► not a point for me. And, uh, it's, uh, it's kinda, it's very surprising to me still, but

00:31:15 ◼   ► also maybe this is one of the, of those things that was delayed by 2020. I don't know. Um,

00:31:22 ◼   ► Maybe Apple is just content to keep working with multiple heads of PR for different departments.

00:31:28 ◼   ► I don't know.

00:31:29 ◼   ► I have no idea what's going on.

00:31:30 ◼   ► So, no point.

00:31:31 ◼   ► Yeah, maybe they don't have like a single head of PR.

00:31:35 ◼   ► Just all of the different product heads or country heads feed into JAWS.

00:31:40 ◼   ► Maybe.

00:31:41 ◼   ► Yeah, who knows.

00:31:42 ◼   ► So no point.

00:31:43 ◼   ► No point.

00:31:45 ◼   ► My round one pick was that the 2020 iPhone line will feature at least one 5G phone.

00:31:50 ◼   ► Stephen, would you like to read your sub points that you insisted were put in the document?

00:31:55 ◼   ► Stephen is highly skeptical.

00:31:57 ◼   ► How do you feel about that now?

00:32:00 ◼   ► 5G, 5G, 5G?

00:32:01 ◼   ► I mean, it's, some people say it's real.

00:32:03 ◼   ► I was super right on this one, huh?

00:32:06 ◼   ► Yeah, every time he said it was like a tiny dagger through my heart.

00:32:11 ◼   ► And then I made the joke, this wasn't a prediction, that they would name it the iPhone 11s Pro

00:32:17 ◼   ► Max 5G.

00:32:19 ◼   ► Was that a joke?

00:32:20 ◼   ► Okay, I don't know if it was. I think it was your actual prediction of the name.

00:32:26 ◼   ► My pick in the first round was the 13-inch MacBook Pro will gain larger screen. There

00:32:33 ◼   ► was a lot of talk, there still is a lot of talk about a 14-inch MacBook Pro, but it has

00:32:36 ◼   ► yet to materialize. It did not materialize in 2020, so I did not get the point.

00:32:44 ◼   ► So at the end of round one, it's mic one. Federico and I have zero.

00:32:49 ◼   ► Feels good. Feels good up here. Yeah. Alright Federico, kick off round two.

00:32:55 ◼   ► Round two, and this just makes me sad, really sad, I said at least one of the

00:33:03 ◼   ► 2020 iPhones will have a higher refresh rate display, parenthesis, promotion. Yeah.

00:33:10 ◼   ► Yeah. That was wrong. That wasn't a point. Again, we talked about this in October. We

00:33:22 ◼   ► would have liked to see the promotion display. It was rumored. And then we also got the reports

00:33:29 ◼   ► saying that Apple was facing difficulties getting it to work. You know, battery life

00:33:34 ◼   ► concerns. I guess that maybe Apple prioritized 5G in these new phones rather than higher

00:33:42 ◼   ► refresh rate display. It's in the rumor cycle again for 2021. I saw yesterday, I think,

00:33:49 ◼   ► or today, I don't remember, saying that Samsung may be one of the suppliers for the higher

00:33:54 ◼   ► refresh rate display in the iPhone 13 or whatever it's going to be called. But yeah, not in

00:34:00 ◼   ► 2020 so no point for me. I'm still at zero.

00:34:03 ◼   ► Yeah, it does feel like something that they've got to do at some point. I mean it is it is

00:34:08 ◼   ► All over the place on high-end Android phones. All right, Michael?

00:34:12 ◼   ► My second pick was that the iPad Pro line is updated before the iPhone of a hardware feature

00:34:18 ◼   ► That's not on any current iPhone 2019 or 2020 and I was right

00:34:25 ◼   ► LIDAR. LIDAR.

00:34:29 ◼   ► First to the iPad this wasn't the thing that I was I think potentially LIDAR was in contention

00:34:35 ◼   ► I thought it was gonna be 5G

00:34:38 ◼   ► 5G 5G 5G 5G, but instead I got LIDAR instead so I

00:34:44 ◼   ► Having won this pick makes me feel less bad about buying that 2020 iPad Pro. I

00:34:49 ◼   ► Don't have one Federica. You don't have one. Do you know I was the only fool that did it

00:34:55 ◼   ► I do have a 2020 iPad Pro. Do you? Yeah I do. Sorry that was delayed for your point.

00:35:03 ◼   ► Thank you, I appreciate it. As of when and why? How? Who? It's a review unit.

00:35:10 ◼   ► Oh. I will get to write about it at some point eventually before I send it back, but yeah.

00:35:16 ◼   ► What are you gonna write about? Oh man, you should write a review of it. That would be so funny.

00:35:21 ◼   ► I honestly have no idea. Here's my review of the 2020 iPad Pro. I mean I guess the fact that I talked about it on

00:35:29 ◼   ► multiple podcasts maybe constitutes some kind of work about it. You're doing it right now.

00:35:34 ◼   ► You're doing the work right now. I'm talking about it right now. Would you like to review the 2020 iPad Pro? Yes, here's my review of the 2020 iPad Pro.

00:35:41 ◼   ► It's got a lighter.

00:35:46 ◼   ► Is that it?

00:35:52 ◼   ► And a different letter in the chip name.

00:35:56 ◼   ► That's the tweet.

00:35:57 ◼   ► That's good.

00:35:58 ◼   ► That binning.

00:35:59 ◼   ► It's fast.

00:36:00 ◼   ► It's got the same design, the same storage, the same display of the 2018 iPad Pro.

00:36:06 ◼   ► At least it fits in the Magic Keyboard case correctly, you know.

00:36:10 ◼   ► It fits in the Magic Keyboard correctly, so that's a very nice plus.

00:36:12 ◼   ► I don't see the, you know, the empty slot anymore.

00:36:17 ◼   ► So that's very aesthetically pleasing, I would say that's a plus, right?

00:36:21 ◼   ► The LiDAR scanner is not really used for photography as it was on the iPhone.

00:36:26 ◼   ► You can use it for AR.

00:36:28 ◼   ► I don't use AR on my iPad Pro, but if you're one of those people, then I guess you'll be

00:36:32 ◼   ► happy and that's the review.

00:36:36 ◼   ► Very nice.

00:36:37 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah, I'm done.

00:36:38 ◼   ► That's a huge weight off my shoulders.

00:36:39 ◼   ► Thanks guys.

00:36:40 ◼   ► Anytime.

00:36:41 ◼   ► Stephen, what was your pick?

00:36:43 ◼   ► My pick is that Apple would launch its own podcast content beyond its existing deal with

00:36:49 ◼   ► Oprah.

00:36:50 ◼   ► I got at least two.

00:36:52 ◼   ► Apple News Today and then Zane Lowe's show is being released as a podcast.

00:36:57 ◼   ► So point for me.

00:36:58 ◼   ► Yeah, I feel like the Zane Lowe one was correct but could have been questioned.

00:37:03 ◼   ► The Apple News Today is the one that really just confirmed that you got that point.

00:37:07 ◼   ► Yes.

00:37:08 ◼   ► I think is still just a podcast version of his Apple Music show.

00:37:13 ◼   ► Yeah, it's shovelware. It's just like, we made this content somewhere else,

00:37:16 ◼   ► let's just stick it into an RSS feed.

00:37:18 ◼   ► This content is too good to be hidden in Apple Music.

00:37:22 ◼   ► So we'll put it in podcasts.

00:37:24 ◼   ► Yeah, but Apple News today is really like, that is Apple's first, like, original podcast content.

00:37:33 ◼   ► So you did get that one.

00:37:35 ◼   ► It's good. So at the end of round two, Myke has two points. I have one point.

00:37:42 ◼   ► Federico has no points. Zero points. How are you feeling about your chances, Federico?

00:37:50 ◼   ► Um, not very good. You could still win it. I felt better in the past. Am I right? At this point,

00:37:57 ◼   ► Federico could still win? Technically, yes. Technically, yeah. I could still take it away

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00:39:51 ◼   ► for the Ricky's Federico redeem yourself.

00:39:56 ◼   ► No, I'm not. I'm not gonna redeem myself. In fact, I'm gonna come out of this and be even sadder

00:40:04 ◼   ► than before. Because technically my reiki was the reiki of passion, I would say of wit, and of hope.

00:40:14 ◼   ► But not of correctness.

00:40:15 ◼   ► Yes, in fact this reiki is a perfect reflection of 2020. I said...

00:40:24 ◼   ► Apple will release at least one new Pro app for iPad that we haven't previously seen on iPad.

00:40:32 ◼   ► The app can be universal. So my idea was Apple is bringing one of their Pro apps to iPad.

00:40:38 ◼   ► They're gonna do so with iPadOS 14, was my theory. And maybe there's gonna be an iPhone version as

00:40:46 ◼   ► well, but primarily they're bringing, I don't know, Xcode or Logic or Final Cut, one of those,

00:40:52 ◼   ► right? To iPad. And nope, that was not the case. They've done plenty of things for

00:41:00 ◼   ► iPad in 2020. The pointer, the Magic Keyboard, multi-column, the sidebars, but

00:41:07 ◼   ► they haven't launched any new Pro application for iPad themselves. So this

00:41:16 ◼   ► makes me really sad. I continue to believe that Apple should lead by

00:41:21 ◼   ► example here, and show that it is possible in 2021, at this point, to build

00:41:28 ◼   ► and support a mature kind of application on iPad, taking advantage of all the

00:41:35 ◼   ► modern features that the platform offers. But regardless, this pick is incorrect,

00:41:40 ◼   ► because they didn't do that in 2020. So I stand by my belief, I stand by my Ricky,

00:41:47 ◼   ► but the rules are the rules and you know I'm trying to keep a more open and

00:41:54 ◼   ► positive and loving attitude in this game this year so I will happily

00:42:01 ◼   ► concede that I was wrong. And it's worth noting now at this point Federico is no

00:42:07 ◼   ► longer the annual chairman because he cannot cannot succeed. I am NOT. I think

00:42:12 ◼   ► it is also the first time someone has scored a minus two. Really?

00:42:18 ◼   ► No, minus one. Minus one. Minus one. Minus one. Wasn't there the one that we did on stage

00:42:24 ◼   ► where we all got the same, or did we all get zero? I think we all got zero. That is still

00:42:30 ◼   ► a record in and of itself, right? Yeah, be proud of yourself. I am, I am, I really am.

00:42:35 ◼   ► Whatever it takes to get you through. Right. All right, this one's gonna be tricky.

00:42:41 ◼   ► read it and then I have some things to say. Okay cool. My pick was the notch on the iPhone

00:42:48 ◼   ► will get physically smaller in at least one of the 2020 iPhones. So I spent my morning looking

00:42:56 ◼   ► through Apple's accessory design guidelines. Can I say why this happened? Like I think that

00:43:04 ◼   ► that because I think people will hear the fact that you did all this work and it won't make

00:43:08 ◼   ► sense why you even started it.

00:43:10 ◼   ► Okay, yes.

00:43:12 ◼   ► Alright, so there was a couple of reasons that I made this pick.

00:43:16 ◼   ► One was that there could be a change to the screen size.

00:43:20 ◼   ► Another was that they may just make the notch smaller. And the other was there would be

00:43:24 ◼   ► a smaller iPhone and therefore would have a smaller notch, right? Right.

00:43:28 ◼   ► And it is inconclusive

00:43:32 ◼   ► or had been inconclusive that the mini

00:43:36 ◼   ► would have a smaller notch if how people say that it did, but we couldn't find any.

00:43:40 ◼   ► I couldn't find anything that would suggest definitively that was the case.

00:43:44 ◼   ► So I posited to the group

00:43:49 ◼   ► that the iPhone 12 has a smaller notch than the iPhone 11.

00:43:56 ◼   ► Now, I wasn't going to fight this necessarily,

00:44:02 ◼   ► but there is a truth in that,

00:44:06 ◼   ► depending on how you look at it.

00:44:08 ◼   ► Then Steven went away and did some work.

00:44:10 ◼   ► - Yes, so the Apple Accessory Design Guidelines

00:44:14 ◼   ► is a giant PDF for people who make cases

00:44:19 ◼   ► and other things for Apple devices.

00:44:23 ◼   ► And it has design schematics

00:44:26 ◼   ► of a bunch of different products.

00:44:27 ◼   ► And so I went through that PDF this morning.

00:44:29 ◼   ► There is a link in the show notes

00:44:32 ◼   ► where I've put together three charts.

00:44:35 ◼   ► The first one is the width of the notch.

00:44:39 ◼   ► The second one is the height of the notch.

00:44:41 ◼   ► These are looking at the safe areas,

00:44:43 ◼   ► that's what Apple calls them.

00:44:44 ◼   ► And then the total notch area.

00:44:47 ◼   ► I will say for the math majors out there,

00:44:52 ◼   ► my area number doesn't account for radius,

00:44:55 ◼   ► but it's close enough for our uses.

00:44:58 ◼   ► - How dare you.

00:45:00 ◼   ► - I got the wrong degree to figure that out.

00:45:01 ◼   ► So a couple of interesting things here.

00:45:03 ◼   ► One, the notch is actually bigger than it was

00:45:07 ◼   ► in the beginning in width and height.

00:45:12 ◼   ► Got a little bit bigger.

00:45:13 ◼   ► - Okay.

00:45:13 ◼   ► - But we're talking in like fractions of a millimeter.

00:45:17 ◼   ► So visually, it's pretty hard to tell most of these apart.

00:45:22 ◼   ► The ones that really stand apart are the LCD phones.

00:45:26 ◼   ► So the iPhone XR and the iPhone 11

00:45:29 ◼   ► both had substantially larger notches

00:45:32 ◼   ► than their OLED counterparts, right?

00:45:36 ◼   ► So for instance, the iPhone XR notch

00:45:40 ◼   ► is 35.96 millimeters wide,

00:45:44 ◼   ► and the XS is 34.3.

00:45:47 ◼   ► The iPhone XR's notch is 5.15 millimeters high,

00:45:51 ◼   ► and the XS was 4.99.

00:45:54 ◼   ► So the area was 185 millimeters squared

00:45:59 ◼   ► versus 169 millimeters squared.

00:46:02 ◼   ► So the LCD ones have bigger notches.

00:46:05 ◼   ► The reason for this is that the bezels around the screen

00:46:07 ◼   ► are bigger and they can't cut in quite as close

00:46:11 ◼   ► as they do with the OLEDs.

00:46:13 ◼   ► Remember Apple even talked about this,

00:46:14 ◼   ► about how they do like the anti-aliasing

00:46:19 ◼   ► around the edges and all that stuff.

00:46:21 ◼   ► So moving to your pick specifically,

00:46:26 ◼   ► that at least one iPhone would see a smaller notch in 2020.

00:46:31 ◼   ► If you go from the iPhone 11 to the iPhone 12,

00:46:38 ◼   ► that's true, 'cause it goes from,

00:46:42 ◼   ► and then we should say too,

00:46:43 ◼   ► the iPhone 11 notch was bigger than the iPhone XR notch,

00:46:48 ◼   ► actually by quite a bit.

00:46:49 ◼   ► And so going to the 12, it is smaller.

00:46:55 ◼   ► So by the letter of the pick, I think you're correct.

00:47:00 ◼   ► You are correct.

00:47:01 ◼   ► But in the, what a good friend of mine calls

00:47:06 ◼   ► the passion of the pick, you don't get this.

00:47:09 ◼   ► But we don't grade on passion, do we?

00:47:11 ◼   ► All of this is, like it's not a,

00:47:14 ◼   ► like just eyeballing it, it's not a smaller notch, right?

00:47:17 ◼   ► Smaller notch means MKBHD points it out in a video.

00:47:20 ◼   ► We were always getting out the calipers for this

00:47:22 ◼   ► no matter what happened, right?

00:47:24 ◼   ► Maybe.

00:47:25 ◼   ► always going to be measurements. But like, this is the question. I'm just positing it

00:47:28 ◼   ► to the group here. Yes. By what I wrote down, it's correct. It isn't what I thought would

00:47:37 ◼   ► happen though. Can you sum it up for me because I got very confused by all the numbers? Alright,

00:47:42 ◼   ► so yeah, I can do it again. You're doing okay over there, you did a lot of summing up today.

00:47:46 ◼   ► It's okay. But basically, Federico, the only way that I could get this pic is the iPhone

00:47:53 ◼   ► 11 has a larger notch than the iPhone 12 because the iPhone 11 had an LCD screen

00:47:59 ◼   ► and the iPhone 12 has an OLED screen. So you did get that just because they

00:48:04 ◼   ► switched to OLED. If they had stayed with LCD you would have missed it. Yep. So I

00:48:09 ◼   ► think you get it but I'm not happy about how you got it. Me either but I'll take

00:48:14 ◼   ► it. I think he gets it but he shouldn't be too happy about his win. It's not a

00:48:19 ◼   ► it's not a it's not a honorable win. It's a technicality. Here's the thing if I win

00:48:26 ◼   ► with this like if I become chairman with this I'm not gonna feel good about it.

00:48:31 ◼   ► Well you better get used to it because I think you know you have a really good

00:48:38 ◼   ► chance at this point. Well no but spoiler alert I was doing pretty okay going into

00:48:43 ◼   ► this round. So yeah, me getting this right doesn't necessarily mean it's the reason.

00:48:50 ◼   ► We'll get to that huh? Steven, why don't you read yours? This is only going to take a second.

00:48:54 ◼   ► Apple podcast app launches on Android. So yeah, there you go. Myke is the new annual

00:49:00 ◼   ► chairman. Yep. And I, so here's the thing, if I would have had to, if my winning would

00:49:06 ◼   ► have come down to that Ricky, I don't know how I'd feel, but I'll just take it because

00:49:10 ◼   ► I'm winning anyway, so I may as well just sweep the whole board. And I got this thing

00:49:14 ◼   ► for a year, boys. This feels good. I wanted to win this one the most, because then no

00:49:19 ◼   ► one could take it away from me for a whole 12 months.

00:49:22 ◼   ► So yeah, so that's Notch data. I think I'm gonna do a blog post about this, because it's

00:49:27 ◼   ► interesting that it's gotten bigger over time.

00:49:30 ◼   ► But I have a question for you, though. Because you did it by what, the developer guidelines?

00:49:37 ◼   ► This is from Apple's specifications.

00:49:40 ◼   ► But is that for developers?

00:49:42 ◼   ► It's for accessory makers.

00:49:43 ◼   ► It's for accessory makers, cool.

00:49:45 ◼   ► That was the one I wanted to check, because this was the trouble that I had, was like,

00:49:49 ◼   ► by the simulator and stuff, they're wildly different in a bunch of different ways, and

00:49:53 ◼   ► I really struggled to try and find an answer on this.

00:49:56 ◼   ► Yeah, I did too, I looked at that, and that's complicated by some are 2x and some are 3x,

00:50:02 ◼   ► right?

00:50:03 ◼   ► The LCD ones, you have to shift that math over.

00:50:07 ◼   ► The reason I went with this is because A) it's publicly available, everyone can see it,

00:50:11 ◼   ► and it's the—Apple measures it the same way across all the phones.

00:50:15 ◼   ► So doesn't—millimeters don't care about 2x or 3x graphics, right?

00:50:19 ◼   ► It cares how wide is this thing.

00:50:21 ◼   ► And the PDFs in there, this starts on page 157 of that PDF.

00:50:26 ◼   ► You can go look at all this.

00:50:27 ◼   ► It's actually a fascinating document, but it is your win.

00:50:34 ◼   ► So congratulations Mr. Annual Chairman.

00:50:38 ◼   ► Thank you.

00:50:39 ◼   ► I will now sign into the account.

00:50:41 ◼   ► Because the account is mine.

00:50:43 ◼   ► I'm going to change all of the information.

00:50:45 ◼   ► And remember too, we had a request.

00:50:48 ◼   ► I think we should honor it.

00:50:49 ◼   ► If we tweet at those accounts we should put our initials after it so people know who's

00:50:52 ◼   ► who in the past because they change hands.

00:50:54 ◼   ► Yeah, I also won't tweet for a few days so I don't spoil it for people.

00:50:58 ◼   ► Yes, you don't want to spoil the show for people who don't listen to The Weeknd.

00:51:03 ◼   ► We do have flexis to look at.

00:51:05 ◼   ► Remember, the rules around the flexis don't apply to these, because the rules were implemented

00:51:09 ◼   ► after this.

00:51:10 ◼   ► These are just non-graded picks, basically, for bragging rights.

00:51:15 ◼   ► Federico, please tell me you got one right.

00:51:18 ◼   ► I did.

00:51:19 ◼   ► Woo!

00:51:20 ◼   ► And I said, "Shortcuts will gain folders and/or new ways to run shortcuts," which is correct.

00:51:27 ◼   ► Yeah, both are true.

00:51:30 ◼   ► Yeah, there's the folders, there's the new widget. I think it was last year that they added, like,

00:51:36 ◼   ► the accessibility stuff for running shortcuts via, like, in... if you assign, like, a custom

00:51:41 ◼   ► keyboard shortcut. Anyway, it is a correct pick, yes.

00:51:45 ◼   ► And this is just a pick of pure happiness.

00:51:49 ◼   ► This is a very happy pick. Oh, and also you can keep... you can run shortcuts from the Apple Watch,

00:51:54 ◼   ► which is also, you know, the new... the new Watch app. So yeah, I'm very happy that I got this right,

00:51:58 ◼   ► and I'm very happy that it came true.

00:52:00 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

00:52:02 ◼   ► All right, Myke.

00:52:04 ◼   ► "I still believe Apple will announce a services bundle."

00:52:07 ◼   ► I love the way I phrased this.

00:52:09 ◼   ► Like, I still believe it,

00:52:11 ◼   ► because I think at that point we'd stopped believing.

00:52:13 ◼   ► Like, there'd been a lot of disbelief from people

00:52:16 ◼   ► that it would happen.

00:52:18 ◼   ► But, yeah, there it is.

00:52:20 ◼   ► This was a pic made out of pessimism and sorrow

00:52:25 ◼   ► at the state of Mac Catalyst a couple years ago.

00:52:28 ◼   ► But I said, "WWC brings no real changes to Mac Catalyst."

00:52:33 ◼   ► Glad to say I was wrong, because Catalyst is a lot better now.

00:52:37 ◼   ► Yeah. It made sense why you made that pick, because of SwiftUI, right?

00:52:41 ◼   ► And the way that the WWDC presentation prior to that

00:52:44 ◼   ► had presented Catalyst, of kind of like sweeping it under the rug a little bit.

00:52:48 ◼   ► Mm-hmm. And in a way, it's more swept under the rug

00:52:53 ◼   ► rug because it's really more important on Intel Max, but it is what it is.

00:53:03 ◼   ► Interesting. Federico, we only did two rounds of flexis, there's another change.

00:53:09 ◼   ► What was your second or final? This is a whole bag of sadness. The iPad home

00:53:14 ◼   ► screen will continue to change with new elements and additions.

00:53:20 ◼   ► Nope. No, just... nope, nope, nope. If you had said iOS, the phone would have pulled you over the line.

00:53:28 ◼   ► Yes, yes. This is just sad. It's one of my hopes for 2021 to actually get the

00:53:36 ◼   ► new home screen features on iPad, but not in 2020. So. Mm-hmm. Sorry about that.

00:53:43 ◼   ► yeah that one sucks honestly like yes that's a good description it sucks

00:53:50 ◼   ► all right Apple will introduce a new iMac design of an accompanying external

00:53:54 ◼   ► display didn't happen either did it did not happen either

00:54:02 ◼   ► Apple okay so the history of this pick is in 2019 I said Apple's gonna ship the

00:54:10 ◼   ► first ARM Mac in 2019 and they didn't so I got discouraged and then I said stick

00:54:16 ◼   ► it to Apple they're not gonna ship the first ARM Mac in 2020 they shipped three

00:54:21 ◼   ► of them. I still don't know why. Well so I'm swinging it we'll find out in a

00:54:27 ◼   ► minute but I'm swinging hard the other way when it comes to Apple Silicon.

00:54:30 ◼   ► You can't chill can you? It's just you're all over the place when it comes to Apple Silicon.

00:54:35 ◼   ► I'm all over the place man there's so much to think about so many things to see but

00:54:40 ◼   ► But that was 2020, much like the year the Rickies, for the most part, total disaster.

00:54:46 ◼   ► But maybe 2021 will bring hope.

00:54:49 ◼   ► Maybe we can vaccinate our picks and everything will go better.

00:54:53 ◼   ► Interesting.

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00:56:34 ◼   ► Relay FM. 2021 the order was just set. Myke and then me and then Federico.

00:56:45 ◼   ► All right so my round one pick. Apple announces a new Mac Pro powered by Apple Silicon.

00:56:52 ◼   ► Oh this year? This year yep. Interesting that's a bold one.

00:56:57 ◼   ► I do not think it's going to ship.

00:57:00 ◼   ► But you think it'll be announced.

00:57:01 ◼   ► This year, but I think it will be announced.

00:57:04 ◼   ► Either they do it at WWDC or they do it later.

00:57:08 ◼   ► And so I've got a couple of reasons for this.

00:57:10 ◼   ► One, I think that Apple were being very aggressive with their timeframes, like purposefully.

00:57:19 ◼   ► So I don't think it's going to take them the two years that they gave to make the full

00:57:23 ◼   ► transition.

00:57:25 ◼   ► And also the Mac Pro, like the top end of the professional line of Apple's products

00:57:30 ◼   ► is one of the only product lines where they have a history in recent times of pre-announcing

00:57:38 ◼   ► stuff.

00:57:40 ◼   ► So the Mac Pro, the Trash Can Mac Pro, they did this.

00:57:43 ◼   ► The iMac Pro, they did this.

00:57:45 ◼   ► And the Mac Pro, they have done this.

00:57:46 ◼   ► Because I think this is one where the volumes are lower and the people that need them are

00:57:50 ◼   ► are going to keep buying them even if there's a new one coming, you know what I mean?

00:57:55 ◼   ► So I think that Apple will announce their new top-end Mac Pro powered by Apple Silicon

00:58:04 ◼   ► many months before they ship it.

00:58:06 ◼   ► And I reckon they will do that in 2021.

00:58:09 ◼   ► But you're not saying anything about shipping, just announcement?

00:58:12 ◼   ► No, because I don't think it's going to ship.

00:58:14 ◼   ► I mean, this is just between us.

00:58:16 ◼   ► It's not going in my pick, but I do not think it will ship this year.

00:58:19 ◼   ► I think they will announce it this year.

00:58:20 ◼   ► Yeah, see if that were the greater thing, I would have, I would think you'd be wrong

00:58:23 ◼   ► because Apple generally ships these pro machines around December 20th or so.

00:58:30 ◼   ► Yeah.

00:58:31 ◼   ► All right.

00:58:32 ◼   ► Yeah, we'll see how that goes.

00:58:33 ◼   ► I have a pick related to this in a second.

00:58:34 ◼   ► So I'm starting out 2021, on a sad note, the iPad mini does not receive the new design

00:58:43 ◼   ► language in 2021.

00:58:46 ◼   ► Why would you do this?

00:58:47 ◼   ► Are you sure about this negative peaks, Steven?

00:58:51 ◼   ► Yeah, why are you going to be like this?

00:58:53 ◼   ► I now want it to happen.

00:58:56 ◼   ► The iPad mini just like so far down the bottom of the line, they only updated every three or four years.

00:59:01 ◼   ► But now this is an energy you're putting into the world.

00:59:03 ◼   ► Yeah, it's energy the iPad mini team is putting into the world.

00:59:07 ◼   ► Have you seen the rumors saying that Apple was working on this?

00:59:11 ◼   ► There was a rumor saying that cheap iPad.

00:59:14 ◼   ► That was a recent one.

00:59:16 ◼   ► But going back further though, there's been rumors, hasn't there?

00:59:18 ◼   ► You know what?

00:59:19 ◼   ► No.

00:59:20 ◼   ► The iPad Mini does receive the new design language of 2021.

00:59:24 ◼   ► Oh my god.

00:59:25 ◼   ► Wait.

00:59:26 ◼   ► I guess this is technically legal to do this.

00:59:30 ◼   ► Was that so easy?

00:59:33 ◼   ► The iPad Mini does receive--

00:59:35 ◼   ► I want to be positive.

00:59:35 ◼   ► You've talked me out of my negativity.

00:59:37 ◼   ► See, this is my love spreading already having its effects.

00:59:41 ◼   ► Now, if they don't do it and you guys got me to change this,

00:59:44 ◼   ► I'm going to be mad.

00:59:45 ◼   ► In fact, I'm going to write as a note, originally, Stephen...

00:59:50 ◼   ► Didn't want to do it.

00:59:52 ◼   ► ...said it would not be...

00:59:56 ◼   ► This was so easy to do.

00:59:58 ◼   ► Yeah, I know. This is a power that we should maybe work together.

01:00:02 ◼   ► I should have like an outlet where I write things and can convince people about stuff.

01:00:07 ◼   ► Hmm. Like stories.

01:00:11 ◼   ► Yeah, something like that. Interesting.

01:00:14 ◼   ► So the iPad mini does receive the new design, right?

01:00:17 ◼   ► Yes.

01:00:18 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:00:19 ◼   ► And I will buy it on day one.

01:00:21 ◼   ► Perfect.

01:00:22 ◼   ► Okay.

01:00:23 ◼   ► Well, I wish you the best of luck.

01:00:25 ◼   ► Thank you.

01:00:26 ◼   ► I also hope it comes out.

01:00:29 ◼   ► Okay.

01:00:30 ◼   ► So my first round one pick is Apple launches at least one iPad model with a mini LED display

01:00:39 ◼   ► in 2021.

01:00:40 ◼   ► This has been rumored multiple times that Apple is working on a new display technology.

01:00:46 ◼   ► The rumors are saying for the iPad Pro specifically, but I'd rather keep it generic, you know,

01:00:50 ◼   ► because this is how you get the points.

01:00:52 ◼   ► Yeah, I want to help you a little bit here.

01:00:58 ◼   ► I don't know if you should specify the display technology.

01:01:02 ◼   ► Oh, with the new display technology then?

01:01:04 ◼   ► Yeah, because there's been a lot of names out there.

01:01:09 ◼   ► also like the essence of the pick but yeah with the new display yeah because

01:01:13 ◼   ► that's what you're saying right so that's why I'm trying to help you no I

01:01:17 ◼   ► don't particularly care about mini LED or OLED or just new display tech yeah

01:01:21 ◼   ► and also like it might be one of those things where Apple give it a name and

01:01:25 ◼   ► it's difficult for us right but is it actually like a custom yeah yeah so

01:01:31 ◼   ► should you clarify further new display tech to the iPad because if it's OLED

01:01:36 ◼   ► that's not new display tech they have that in the phone for yeah for the iPad

01:01:40 ◼   ► new on the iPad okay can you I don't know how can we clarify that new on the

01:01:46 ◼   ► iPad yeah yeah that's I know that's what you wanted but I know future us would

01:01:51 ◼   ► yes wobble squibble squabble squibble that sometimes it's good to know

01:01:57 ◼   ► yourselves and try and make it easy on yourself you know yeah to know yourself

01:02:02 ◼   ► ahead of time. So that's round one. Okay. It is. So time for round two. It is. My first

01:02:10 ◼   ► pick for well my second pick my round two my first pick in round two which is therefore

01:02:14 ◼   ► my second pick in the 2021 rookies is the iOS 15 gives users more home screen customization

01:02:22 ◼   ► options. What if they just bring iOS 14 widgets out onto the home screen of the iPad? Does

01:02:30 ◼   ► That would be iPadOS 15.

01:02:32 ◼   ► That's an iPadOS 15.

01:02:33 ◼   ► I picked it specifically so it wasn't there.

01:02:35 ◼   ► This is on the iPhone, right?

01:02:37 ◼   ► Okay.

01:02:38 ◼   ► I don't know what these things are going to be.

01:02:39 ◼   ► There are a lot of potential options, right?

01:02:41 ◼   ► It could be icon customization, it could be theming, it could be wider widget choices than before.

01:02:48 ◼   ► I don't know what exactly, but I think this is going to be a "we'll know it when we see it" and it will be clear.

01:02:54 ◼   ► because again this is not in my pick but I imagine Apple very literally saying

01:03:00 ◼   ► right we know people love to customize their home screen so in iOS 15 we're

01:03:05 ◼   ► doing this and like this is a pick where I just think if they don't do this I

01:03:10 ◼   ► don't know what's going on over there right because they became an accidental

01:03:15 ◼   ► cultural moment with iOS 14 in a way that they weren't expecting and if you

01:03:19 ◼   ► were not going to capitalize on that I don't get it I just don't get it when

01:03:24 ◼   ► when they've already clearly shown they're willing to by making those changes and shortcuts, right?

01:03:29 ◼   ► They're happy to make it easier for people. I don't know why they don't just go further and

01:03:35 ◼   ► do more stuff that allows people to customize their home screens.

01:03:38 ◼   ► My round two pick is no in-person WWDC 2021.

01:03:45 ◼   ► This feels like a lock.

01:03:46 ◼   ► Yep, just wanted to get it on the board.

01:03:49 ◼   ► This is honestly, of all of our picks, this feels like the most certain to me.

01:03:54 ◼   ► I can't imagine it, right? Like, I'm in lockdown until March in the UK, right? So, like, I

01:04:04 ◼   ► can't imagine, I just can't imagine it happening, right? So, it just doesn't seem possible or

01:04:09 ◼   ► safe or clever.

01:04:11 ◼   ► Yeah, it's not happening. So, this is very likely a point. Okay. My second pick is Apple

01:04:20 ◼   ► launches, and again this is between quotes, AirTags accessories for tracking

01:04:27 ◼   ► physical objects. So the name isn't necessarily like we should clarify that

01:04:32 ◼   ► the name may be different. I'm basically referring to the accessory that's been

01:04:38 ◼   ► rumored for years at this point. The little, you know, tile-like device that

01:04:44 ◼   ► you're gonna stick it or put it somewhere and you're gonna be able to

01:04:46 ◼   ► track a physical object in the real world.

01:04:49 ◼   ► Basically like these small tags that we've seen referenced

01:04:53 ◼   ► in dozens of different versions of iOS.

01:04:57 ◼   ► We've seen screenshots, we've seen animations,

01:05:00 ◼   ► we've seen all kinds of references in code.

01:05:04 ◼   ► And I suppose that in 2021,

01:05:06 ◼   ► these accessories will finally come out at some point.

01:05:09 ◼   ► So this is my pick.

01:05:11 ◼   ► - Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of smoke for that fire.

01:05:14 ◼   ► So I think you're gonna get this.

01:05:16 ◼   ► I hope so.

01:05:17 ◼   ► All right, so that is the end of round two.

01:05:20 ◼   ► As a reminder, each of those picks is worth one point.

01:05:25 ◼   ► Time for the Rikis.

01:05:27 ◼   ► If you get these right, you get two points.

01:05:29 ◼   ► If you get it wrong, you lose a point.

01:05:31 ◼   ► So this can make or break a game.

01:05:33 ◼   ► Myke, you're up.

01:05:34 ◼   ► I'm having cold feet at the very last moment.

01:05:37 ◼   ► Mm-hmm.

01:05:38 ◼   ► Let me talk through this.

01:05:39 ◼   ► Wow, this is a Riki, if I've ever seen one.

01:05:43 ◼   ► Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:05:44 ◼   ► I need to, I want to go back on this.

01:05:46 ◼   ► Alright, so as of a, I don't know, a year or two ago,

01:05:50 ◼   ► the way that we spoke about this before, the way that we come up with this,

01:05:54 ◼   ► so there isn't just 95 minutes of screaming,

01:05:58 ◼   ► is we have to get pre-agreement from each other

01:06:02 ◼   ► that our Ricky picks are risky enough.

01:06:06 ◼   ► Because there have been many times where somebody has produced something

01:06:10 ◼   ► and either one or two of the three people will say that is not risky enough and then there's like

01:06:16 ◼   ► two days of fighting until we come up with the answers. I would say that I think in the last

01:06:22 ◼   ► 12 months we have all got really good at picking risky picks right because I feel that is way less

01:06:29 ◼   ► fighting now but it's still worth going through it before we come to the show. So I presented,

01:06:37 ◼   ► I think we all did this in the end. Three picks that were all deemed risky.

01:06:43 ◼   ► I ended up choosing one of them and then two of those picks have gone into my flexies.

01:06:49 ◼   ► I am now torn between two of my picks for my Ricky. I will just say what they are. One,

01:06:59 ◼   ► a Mac gets a touch screen. Two, iPad multitasking is overhauled again.

01:07:07 ◼   ► I think that both of these things are going to happen.

01:07:10 ◼   ► I don't know if they're 2021, which is why they're risky, right?

01:07:14 ◼   ► Like, I think we could probably all agree that it seems like these things will probably happen at some point,

01:07:20 ◼   ► but it's just, are they gonna happen this year?

01:07:24 ◼   ► And I'm not sure which one I want to go with.

01:07:31 ◼   ► So I firmly believe that the touch screen is riskier.

01:07:36 ◼   ► - Yes, it is. - And what that means

01:07:40 ◼   ► is that the glory is better if you get it right.

01:07:44 ◼   ► - Oh, I know, yeah.

01:07:46 ◼   ► - And Apple has overhauled multitasking

01:07:48 ◼   ► every two or three years for like five or six years.

01:07:52 ◼   ► So that one feels, I mean,

01:07:54 ◼   ► I'd be okay with it being a risky pick,

01:07:56 ◼   ► but I think the Mac is way more glorious.

01:07:59 ◼   ► I think I want to go with the glory and the passion, right?

01:08:03 ◼   ► I think I'm going to keep it.

01:08:04 ◼   ► Learn from the best.

01:08:05 ◼   ► I'm going to keep it.

01:08:06 ◼   ► A Mac gets a touch screen is my Ricky pick.

01:08:10 ◼   ► I love it.

01:08:11 ◼   ► I love it.

01:08:11 ◼   ► I love it.

01:08:12 ◼   ► I want it to happen.

01:08:14 ◼   ► Me too.

01:08:15 ◼   ► I really love it.

01:08:15 ◼   ► Can I ask a clarifying question on that?

01:08:18 ◼   ► Yes.

01:08:19 ◼   ► So Jason said something on upgrade

01:08:21 ◼   ► that I hadn't thought about, which was like,

01:08:23 ◼   ► what if the iMac didn't get a touch screen,

01:08:27 ◼   ► but it could be operated by the Apple Pencil.

01:08:30 ◼   ► And I had not considered that.

01:08:32 ◼   ► It's still touch.

01:08:33 ◼   ► Still touch.

01:08:35 ◼   ► See, I would say it's not touch.

01:08:36 ◼   ► If your meaty finger can't move an item around, it's not a touch screen.

01:08:39 ◼   ► Well, but you're touching the display with something.

01:08:41 ◼   ► So maybe, maybe.

01:08:44 ◼   ► It is technically touchable.

01:08:45 ◼   ► Here's the thing.

01:08:46 ◼   ► So if the i...

01:08:48 ◼   ► So I would say if the iMac got use of the Apple Pencil,

01:08:52 ◼   ► that would still be monumental and is still quite risky.

01:08:57 ◼   ► So what if the pick is a Mac gets a screen that can be...

01:09:04 ◼   ► See, I'm trying to find a phrase that could encapsulate both of those.

01:09:06 ◼   ► A screen that supports touch input.

01:09:09 ◼   ► That supports touch input?

01:09:11 ◼   ► Touch input and/or pencil input.

01:09:14 ◼   ► Yes, there you go. A screen that supports touch or pencil input.

01:09:18 ◼   ► That's going to be my pick.

01:09:19 ◼   ► Because I think that both of those...

01:09:20 ◼   ► And/or. You have to say and/or.

01:09:22 ◼   ► Yeah, I think that both of those are risky.

01:09:25 ◼   ► It would really, I think it would really suck if they made an iMac that worked with the Apple pencil and I got my Ricky wrong.

01:09:30 ◼   ► Like that would be sad. And look we've talked about that for years. I wrote a thing for Federico

01:09:35 ◼   ► Probably four years ago about like hey the trackpad and this MacBook Pro is humongous

01:09:40 ◼   ► Why can't I use an Apple pencil on it? Right? Like it's just right there

01:09:44 ◼   ► Well, and the other one is the Surface Studio, right? Like everyone thinks and talks about the Surface Studio

01:09:48 ◼   ► Yeah, they've sold six of them

01:09:49 ◼   ► But it's still an industrial design that is interested and cool and people would like on the Mac.

01:09:55 ◼   ► And I could imagine the iMac being maybe one of the harder ones to put touch on,

01:10:01 ◼   ► but maybe you put pencil support on it and have a really weird adjustability, which by the way,

01:10:06 ◼   ► I'll get to later I suppose. So yeah, okay, that's what I'm going to go with.

01:10:11 ◼   ► And Apple announces a... Sorry, a Mac gets a touch screen... Sorry, let me do it again.

01:10:17 ◼   ► third time's a charm. A Mac gets a screen that supports touch and/or Apple Pencil support.

01:10:22 ◼   ► Or Apple Pencil input we should say. Alright, so my pick is related to yours about Apple announcing

01:10:31 ◼   ► a new Mac Pro. I'm going even further. Oh no. Because I'm gonna say that Apple has Apple

01:10:38 ◼   ► Silicon replacements for all of its Intel Macs on sale by the end of 2021. What is wrong with you?

01:10:45 ◼   ► Why have you done this?

01:10:47 ◼   ► They did, look, they went super fast with Intel.

01:10:52 ◼   ► I think they're ready.

01:10:53 ◼   ► I think we're just going to see how they're going to rip the Band-Aid off.

01:10:56 ◼   ► And the two-year thing was just a cover in case it was slower than that.

01:11:00 ◼   ► But I believe...

01:11:01 ◼   ► On sale.

01:11:02 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:11:03 ◼   ► By the end of this year.

01:11:04 ◼   ► On sale.

01:11:05 ◼   ► On sale.

01:11:06 ◼   ► That means I can give them my credit card number for an Apple Silicon Mac Pro within

01:11:10 ◼   ► the year.

01:11:11 ◼   ► Or whatever the last one is.

01:11:13 ◼   ► Because I think it's going to be tricky to judge this, even.

01:11:16 ◼   ► No!

01:11:17 ◼   ► If you can put money into a website and get a computer out of it, then it's for sale.

01:11:22 ◼   ► Alright, but what if I can still buy an iMac Pro?

01:11:26 ◼   ► With Intel chips in it.

01:11:27 ◼   ► I don't think they're going to keep any Intel Macs around, but I see what you're saying.

01:11:31 ◼   ► Well, he's saying that Apple has Apple Silicon replacement, so you may still be able to buy

01:11:37 ◼   ► an Intel iMac Pro.

01:11:39 ◼   ► Apple Silicon versions.

01:11:40 ◼   ► Versions, yes.

01:11:41 ◼   ► Yeah, but what if there is no Apple Silicon iMac Pro? Then what are we going to do?

01:11:46 ◼   ► Then if the Intel iMac Pro is gone, then we know...

01:11:51 ◼   ► Exactly.

01:11:52 ◼   ► But what if it isn't, is what I'm saying? What if you can still buy it?

01:11:55 ◼   ► That's 11 months away.

01:11:59 ◼   ► So, if on December 31st 2021 you go to the Apple website and you see an Intel-based iMac Pro,

01:12:09 ◼   ► and there's no Apple Silicon version of it, Steven does not get the point.

01:12:14 ◼   ► But what if the Apple Silicon Mac Pro is for sale? I think it's, we all understand the Mac Pro will

01:12:20 ◼   ► be last, it always is. If the Apple Silicon Mac Pro is for sale, then the Apple Silicon Mac Pro

01:12:26 ◼   ► has replaced the Intel Mac Pro, but the iMac Pro is still there, so that's not an Apple Silicon.

01:12:32 ◼   ► In this, this is the only scenario I'm painting here, because it's the outlier product to me,

01:12:36 ◼   ► right? Like everything else seems obvious. Yeah, you know, I don't think that's going to happen.

01:12:39 ◼   ► I think the iMac Pro is one and done. It's going to disappear. So I'm going with this.

01:12:44 ◼   ► Apple has Apple silicon versions of all of its Intel Macs on sale by the end of 2021.

01:12:48 ◼   ► Man. Okay. But so I'm putting the iMac Pro in as your potential downfall here,

01:12:54 ◼   ► that if they're still selling. So the sub point. Yeah. So the sub bullet point,

01:12:58 ◼   ► which is not great as for clarification is no Intel. Hmm. As I type it, I'm unsure.

01:13:06 ◼   ► No, no, you would have to say no Intel Macs on sale without an Apple Silicon counterpart.

01:13:13 ◼   ► It's like if you can still buy an Intel Mac and is it an Apple Silicon

01:13:17 ◼   ► counterpart in a category that has no Apple Silicon product in it, then you don't win.

01:13:21 ◼   ► Yes.

01:13:22 ◼   ► Man, you've gone, you've gone too hard on this one. I don't think you had to

01:13:29 ◼   ► to do this, but this is what you've decided for yourself. So as far as passion goes,

01:13:34 ◼   ► I think you got it. I really don't think this is the case which is as I have made in my round one pick

01:13:40 ◼   ► I don't think the Intel the Apple silicon Mac Pro is on set is on sale this year. I don't think it's gonna happen other than

01:13:46 ◼   ► Getting the year wrong Apple silicon Macs have not let me down. I won the keynote

01:13:53 ◼   ► Chairmanship because the Apple silicon Mac mini I have let you down, right?

01:13:58 ◼   ► So there's gonna be a desktop because you've made us freaked out up until that point and even including today

01:14:04 ◼   ► every pick that you've made about Apple Silicon Max has been wrong.

01:14:07 ◼   ► That was what you were setting out earlier, that you kept picking times and it kept being wrong.

01:14:12 ◼   ► Twice. But the Mac Mini gives me hope.

01:14:15 ◼   ► And I choose to believe in Gianni Cerulli's team the year of Apple Silicon Max.

01:14:21 ◼   ► Mad lad.

01:14:21 ◼   ► Well, absolute mad lad.

01:14:24 ◼   ► Look at Federico.

01:14:26 ◼   ► So we need to have a lot of things to talk about Federico.

01:14:28 ◼   ► We haven't gotten to Federico yet, all right?

01:14:30 ◼   ► So far you are the mad lad.

01:14:32 ◼   ► All right, Federico, lay it on us.

01:14:34 ◼   ► Okay, I have a very simple statement, very simple idea.

01:14:37 ◼   ► I'm being very bold and surgical about it.

01:14:40 ◼   ► 2021 is the year of Xcode on iPad, okay?

01:14:44 ◼   ► I'm calling it right now January 7th, 2021.

01:14:48 ◼   ► Okay.

01:14:49 ◼   ► Therefore, my reekie is Apple will release a new programming app for iPad.

01:14:53 ◼   ► Oh, man.

01:14:54 ◼   ► I'm going all in.

01:14:56 ◼   ► I don't care.

01:14:56 ◼   ► This is happening because I said this is happening.

01:14:59 ◼   ► What was the year when we were at the Twitter headquarters watching at their viewing party?

01:15:07 ◼   ► 2015?

01:15:09 ◼   ► It was the iMessage app store was the big thing of that WWDC.

01:15:14 ◼   ► What year was that? What year was the iMessage app store?

01:15:18 ◼   ► 2016?

01:15:21 ◼   ► Because at that year we were saying this was going to happen.

01:15:24 ◼   ► So my point here is that the year of Xcode on iPad is almost like the year of Linux on

01:15:30 ◼   ► the desktop.

01:15:31 ◼   ► Well, but unlike Linux, this is going to happen.

01:15:34 ◼   ► Okay.

01:15:35 ◼   ► So Linux has happened.

01:15:38 ◼   ► Has it though?

01:15:41 ◼   ► No, this is happening.

01:15:43 ◼   ► This is happening.

01:15:44 ◼   ► Otherwise I wouldn't have chosen it as my Ricky.

01:15:47 ◼   ► I am very, very positive, and you can quote me on this, that I will win and I will be

01:15:53 ◼   ► the annual chairman 2022. 2020 I lost for a variety of reasons.

01:15:58 ◼   ► Well, the variety of reasons is you got none of your picks right.

01:16:01 ◼   ► I said a variety of reasons.

01:16:03 ◼   ► One of them was, let me just quote it back to you, that Apple released one new Pro app

01:16:10 ◼   ► for iPad. You've been let down by this very concept before.

01:16:17 ◼   ► I said a variety of reasons.

01:16:19 ◼   ► One is the same reason.

01:16:23 ◼   ► I choose to believe in what didn't come true in 2020, will come true in 2021.

01:16:31 ◼   ► 2021 is the year of rebirth and hope, and this is one of those things.

01:16:37 ◼   ► New programming app on iPad, big announcement, WWDC Xcode, or may not even be called Xcode,

01:16:45 ◼   ► is why I didn't specify the name, but a new app for programming, so writing software and

01:16:51 ◼   ► testing software on iPad. That is not, and I guess you can clarify, that is not Swift

01:16:56 ◼   ► Playgrounds because that is not new. But yes, a new programming app for iPad made by Apple

01:17:02 ◼   ► that lets you write code.

01:17:03 ◼   ► Man.

01:17:04 ◼   ► Okay. I don't care. I'm going all in.

01:17:09 ◼   ► Is this a reuse of the previous pic? It's awfully close.

01:17:12 ◼   ► It's close but it's not a reuse.

01:17:14 ◼   ► Because he wasn't specific.

01:17:16 ◼   ► This is riskier because he's being specific.

01:17:19 ◼   ► So like, can you imagine the logic and final cut?

01:17:23 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:17:24 ◼   ► They'd be logic and final cut this year.

01:17:27 ◼   ► How would that make you feel Federico?

01:17:29 ◼   ► - I will take it badly.

01:17:33 ◼   ► - Oh.

01:17:34 ◼   ► - Yes, yes.

01:17:35 ◼   ► - Good, good.

01:17:36 ◼   ► (laughing)

01:17:39 ◼   ► - I was trying to say I will take it, you know.

01:17:41 ◼   ► with an open mind, but no, no, no, I will be upset.

01:17:45 ◼   ► - One of the differences of this year's picks

01:17:48 ◼   ► to last year's picks is it really is going to pretty much

01:17:53 ◼   ► take us all the way to the end of the year before we know.

01:17:58 ◼   ► That wasn't the case this time.

01:18:01 ◼   ► - Yeah, we've basically known this since the fall event

01:18:06 ◼   ► that this is how this was gonna go.

01:18:08 ◼   ► That leaves the flexies, let me read the flexy rules

01:18:11 ◼   ► because I didn't read them earlier.

01:18:13 ◼   ► Loser of the non-graded flexis must compensate

01:18:17 ◼   ► the winner of the flexis by donating to the charity

01:18:20 ◼   ► of the winner's choice.

01:18:22 ◼   ► The amount of the donation is $25 per wrong flexi

01:18:27 ◼   ► made by the loser.

01:18:28 ◼   ► In the case of a tie, the ratio of correct

01:18:31 ◼   ► to incorrect flexis will be taken into account.

01:18:34 ◼   ► Each host must make a minimum of five flexi picks.

01:18:40 ◼   ► Flexis may be reused as future flexis or regular picks and the money of course

01:18:46 ◼   ► Must be donated on air. I think so far only Federico and I've had a donate

01:18:52 ◼   ► I don't think Myke you've had to give anything yet. No

01:18:54 ◼   ► You've been in the middle. I think I won a Federico one and you've been so why do you hate charities Myke?

01:19:00 ◼   ► Yeah, gosh, man. Jeez why cuz I'm a winner not a loser, I guess Wow the medium is connected host

01:19:09 ◼   ► Alright, Myke, draw up your flexis on us.

01:19:12 ◼   ► Alright, so I have five because I'm sensible and I don't go over five.

01:19:18 ◼   ► Hmm, interesting strategy.

01:19:21 ◼   ► Because history has shown it behooves you to do that.

01:19:27 ◼   ► My five on another variant of over-ear headphones will be released.

01:19:31 ◼   ► Wait, what?

01:19:32 ◼   ► I think there's a, yep, I think that Apple will release a cheaper version of the over-ear

01:19:37 ◼   ► AirPods, AirPods Max, something else.

01:19:41 ◼   ► Apple releases a weather API.

01:19:44 ◼   ► Right, because they bought Dark Sky.

01:19:46 ◼   ► Dark Sky, yeah.

01:19:47 ◼   ► New Apple TV released.

01:19:49 ◼   ► iPad multitasking is overhauled again.

01:19:53 ◼   ► And my final flexi, which was my third Ricky option,

01:19:59 ◼   ► is a new iMac has adjustability that is reminiscent of the Pro Display XDR.

01:20:05 ◼   ► Adjustability you mean by the stand?

01:20:06 ◼   ► The stand and the way that the stand moves up and down.

01:20:09 ◼   ► I think that they will use something very much like that for the iMac.

01:20:14 ◼   ► So they're going to take a thousand dollar stand and put the technology in a

01:20:19 ◼   ► $1,500 iMac.

01:20:20 ◼   ► I'm not saying they're going to take a thousand dollar stand.

01:20:22 ◼   ► But here's a few things on that.

01:20:24 ◼   ► One, things get cheaper to make over time because part of the price of that stand

01:20:30 ◼   ► is because they know they weren't going to sell a lot of them and it took them a

01:20:32 ◼   ► lot of money and time to make them, right?

01:20:34 ◼   ► in research and development, in tooling and all that kind of stuff.

01:20:37 ◼   ► I like to think that each one is handmade.

01:20:40 ◼   ► Each one may be handmade, it isn't.

01:20:42 ◼   ► It's made by robots, but you know, you can probably, you probably have to tell yourself

01:20:46 ◼   ► that that's the case, right Steven?

01:20:47 ◼   ► It helps me sleep better at night.

01:20:49 ◼   ► There you go.

01:20:50 ◼   ► Um, so, but I think that they will take that technology and that knowledge, because it

01:20:55 ◼   ► does seem to be a really nice, uh, stand and mechanism and bring that to other products.

01:21:01 ◼   ► It is.

01:21:02 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:21:03 ◼   ► It'd be nice. You know, the iMac with the G4 was like super flexible and where you could put the

01:21:10 ◼   ► screen was really up to you and we lost that with the iMac G5 and that's where we've been until now,

01:21:16 ◼   ► until the XDR. So I like all of these. I do want to go back to the weather API just for a second.

01:21:24 ◼   ► Maybe this is a topic for a show at some point, but I really just wonder what the possible

01:21:30 ◼   ► ramifications of that would be on the the ecosystem of iOS weather apps. I have lots of

01:21:36 ◼   ► thoughts on the good and bad of that. It could be better for them. So if it's free then so the way

01:21:43 ◼   ► most weather apps work now unless they steal all your tracking data like some of them have been

01:21:46 ◼   ► caught doing is you pay an in-app subscription to access the weather data because they have to go pay

01:21:55 ◼   ► the weather service that you're using. So you pay the developer and they can pay their cost

01:22:00 ◼   ► of accessing that data. If it's free, then those developers can't get away with charging for

01:22:08 ◼   ► something that people know is going to be free. And like, will the bottom fall out of this

01:22:12 ◼   ► ecosystem? I think it could be good, but it could be bad.

01:22:15 ◼   ► Like, what about calendar apps?

01:22:18 ◼   ► Yeah, but think of how many weather apps there are and how varied they are. There's

01:22:21 ◼   ► three decent calendar apps and there's five or six good weather apps.

01:22:25 ◼   ► No, you see, I don't disagree. I don't think this is an issue because you're presuming that customers

01:22:32 ◼   ► know that web app developers have to pay for the APIs. Nobody knows or cares. I think people do know.

01:22:40 ◼   ► I think people who are willing to pay for that do know and care. If you want additional sources, yeah.

01:22:46 ◼   ► So your argument is that Apple will not release a weather API because a bunch of developers

01:22:51 ◼   ► rely on third-party APIs? No, no, no, no. I think they're going to do this. I just wonder

01:22:59 ◼   ► what it will mean in the ecosystem. I don't think it will make a difference.

01:23:03 ◼   ► No, I get it. The idea that a bunch of developers on weather apps switch to subscriptions because

01:23:10 ◼   ► it's a good way to support the fact that you're paying for ongoing service to a third-party

01:23:17 ◼   ► and therefore it's an easier sell for people because you're saying, "Well, look, it has

01:23:23 ◼   ► to be a subscription because I gotta pay an ongoing cost to the service provider." But

01:23:28 ◼   ► then what if it becomes like a native thing, right? Like the reminders integration, for

01:23:32 ◼   ► example. It's not like you're paying Apple to get access to reminders. So I get it. But

01:23:38 ◼   ► also, I think if you're a developer, that you could do something like, you can get the

01:23:43 ◼   ► Apple data for free, or if you want to get more accurate data, you can subscribe and

01:23:48 ◼   ► get the third party.

01:23:49 ◼   ► You can still get all your Storm stuff. It's like the same as it has been before.

01:23:54 ◼   ► Like it becomes a premium thing, I guess. Like there's the basic version, which is the

01:23:57 ◼   ► Apple one. I could see something like that. And if you want to have wider coverage or

01:24:03 ◼   ► more details or like those crazy radars that you see in the US, you can subscribe and get

01:24:09 ◼   ► whatever, you know, AccuWeather and KlimaCell, whatever, you know, all these services are.

01:24:15 ◼   ► So... but it's a good point, actually. You do make good points every once in a while,

01:24:20 ◼   ► Steven. Thanks.

01:24:21 ◼   ► Yeah. Sure, babe. Okay. You're not ready for my flexes, because these are the best flexes

01:24:29 ◼   ► you've ever heard on the show. I'm really happy with them.

01:24:32 ◼   ► All right. So the first one, Apple releases its own game

01:24:35 ◼   ► controller. They're going to do this. Oh, okay then. They are going to do this. Why?

01:24:46 ◼   ► I think it's going to be part of the new Apple TV experience and also a nice tie-in with

01:24:53 ◼   ► Apple Arcade. I think the combination of those two factors, Apple working on a new Apple

01:24:58 ◼   ► TV, sort of trying to find a reason for a new Apple TV to exist in a world where you

01:25:03 ◼   ► can get a cheap Firestick 4K, which we now have in our household, by the way. It's super

01:25:10 ◼   ► cool. Or you can get the Google Chromecast, there's so many alternatives at a much lower

01:25:17 ◼   ► price point. Like, what's the reason for an Apple TV to exist at that price point, this

01:25:22 ◼   ► is? Right, but so, the question on this then, if it's Apple TV, you think that they would

01:25:27 ◼   ► include this game controller with the Apple TV? Potentially, maybe with a version of the

01:25:32 ◼   ► Apple TV. Maybe. Why not? I think it could be a nice, you know, sort of a change of direction,

01:25:41 ◼   ► but not so much. Like, it wouldn't be a total shocker when you think about it. There's Apple

01:25:45 ◼   ► Arcade. It features wide, you know, it features really, really well at this point with TVOS

01:25:52 ◼   ► 14, really well done support and integration with third-party controllers. I don't know.

01:25:56 ◼   ► I just feel like it's kind of weird at this point that Apple has worked so hard to get

01:26:01 ◼   ► the DualShock and the Xbox controller and MI5 controllers to work, just make your own.

01:26:07 ◼   ► So I don't know, maybe.

01:26:09 ◼   ► Second flexi, iOS gets a native feature to change icons for any app you want.

01:26:17 ◼   ► So the idea is Apple must have noticed just how badly people want to change icons on their

01:26:22 ◼   ► home screens, and rather than using shortcuts or using those third-party utilities that

01:26:27 ◼   ► sort of let you do that by installing custom certificates on your device. Just have a native

01:26:33 ◼   ► feature that lets you change the icon anytime you want from settings. And yes, I know, changing

01:26:38 ◼   ► the icon you're going against the original artistic intention of the app developer, whatever.

01:26:45 ◼   ► People just want to change stuff, people just want to customize stuff. Nothing is sacred

01:26:50 ◼   ► anymore I think in terms of the iOS home screen. So anything goes, and if anything goes, just

01:26:55 ◼   ► let people change the icons whenever they want. And yeah, you can still choose the default

01:26:59 ◼   ► icon and developers can still provide alternative icons, but ultimately give the power to the

01:27:05 ◼   ► people. That's basically the idea of this flexi.

01:27:08 ◼   ► Third flexi, Apple releases a bigger iPad Pro. Why not? We talked about this before.

01:27:13 ◼   ► Give me a 15 or 16 inch iPad Pro and I'll be happy. Hasn't been rumored though, so...

01:27:21 ◼   ► It's still a good flexi I think, but it's... I don't know.

01:27:24 ◼   ► It's a good flexy, a bad pick. That's a good description. I list a new iPhone

01:27:29 ◼   ► model as both Face ID and Touch ID. I think I really want this to come true. I really

01:27:36 ◼   ► want to have a phone where it works with either Face ID or Touch ID if I have a mask on and

01:27:41 ◼   ► I can just touch a button. Like on the iPad Air, it's got Touch ID in the button. Or maybe

01:27:46 ◼   ► it could be Touch ID under the display. I don't know. I still want to have multiple

01:27:49 ◼   ► biometric options for authenticating myself on my iPhone. I used to think this wasn't necessary.

01:27:57 ◼   ► That was pre-pandemic. In a post-pandemic world, I don't think masks are going away anytime soon,

01:28:04 ◼   ► anyway, even after the vaccine. I don't think we're just gonna stop... Personally, I will just

01:28:09 ◼   ► not stop wearing a mask. So this is something that we have to live with for the foreseeable future.

01:28:15 ◼   ► And if that's the case, I don't think Face ID alone is going to be good enough.

01:28:20 ◼   ► I hear it every day from my friends, like, just how annoying Face ID is these days, when

01:28:27 ◼   ► you're outside and you're wearing a mask.

01:28:29 ◼   ► So multiple options.

01:28:31 ◼   ► Face ID and Touch ID in the same iPhone.

01:28:33 ◼   ► And lastly, sort of this is something that Myke also mentioned, I'm going a little more

01:28:37 ◼   ► specific, WidgetKit, which is the framework that supports widgets on the iOS and iPadOS

01:28:44 ◼   ► home screen, will support new widget sizes and more interactivity.

01:28:51 ◼   ► Now the sizes are kind of obvious, I think Apple will do more and different layouts for

01:28:58 ◼   ► widgets, maybe a small vertical one, maybe different rectangle sizes, maybe L-shaped

01:29:04 ◼   ► widgets, that would be fun and interesting, round widgets, why not, but I also think they're

01:29:09 ◼   ► going to start adding some kind of interactions without necessarily having to support the

01:29:14 ◼   ► the same full-on interactions like on Android. I don't think you will be able to bring up

01:29:19 ◼   ► a keyboard in a widget in iOS 15, but maybe tapping some buttons or like, yeah, maybe

01:29:25 ◼   ► like a single tap, choosing from one option or the other, or like I'm thinking like a

01:29:29 ◼   ► playback widget, for example, for music. Literally just be able to pause and play, that would

01:29:35 ◼   ► be good enough, and it would be more interactivity than we have today. So new sizes are more

01:29:41 ◼   ► A deep and open widget framework.

01:29:42 ◼   ► No, it doesn't have to be deep and open. That joke stopped being funny years ago.

01:29:49 ◼   ► Deep and open framework. No, for us it didn't.

01:29:52 ◼   ► Of all the things that I say on the show, I don't know why you still hold that specific

01:29:55 ◼   ► joke against me after all these years.

01:29:57 ◼   ► Because it was such a wild thing to say in the first place.

01:30:01 ◼   ► It was about messages. Apples closed the call.

01:30:07 ◼   ► Of all the things I say on this show, many questionable things, but that one...

01:30:12 ◼   ► Apple's shallow and closed messages system.

01:30:14 ◼   ► I'm never gonna let it go.

01:30:16 ◼   ► I made six Flexys.

01:30:18 ◼   ► Why?

01:30:19 ◼   ► Why do you do this?

01:30:21 ◼   ► Because he likes charities.

01:30:23 ◼   ► I do like charities, but I just had a lot of stuff rolling around in my head and I thought,

01:30:28 ◼   ► you know what, I'm just gonna put my cards on the table.

01:30:31 ◼   ► So Flexi One, Apple puts a cheaper display on sale as a sibling to the XDR.

01:30:38 ◼   ► So I'm not saying anything about how it looks or how it works, just a cheaper display.

01:30:41 ◼   ► I mean, come on, why haven't they done this?

01:30:45 ◼   ► I've got a couple about names.

01:30:47 ◼   ► The simplest thing to predict.

01:30:50 ◼   ► A faster Apple Silicon chip is named M1X, not M2.

01:30:56 ◼   ► What if they do have an M2?

01:30:58 ◼   ► Why have you done this?

01:31:00 ◼   ► I think maybe I can reword this, but my thought is the number is going to be about the generation

01:31:05 ◼   ► just like it is on iOS and iPadOS.

01:31:08 ◼   ► So they're only going to have two chips?

01:31:10 ◼   ► Well it could be M1X, M1Z, whatever.

01:31:13 ◼   ► Okay.

01:31:14 ◼   ► But I think the number corresponds to the generation.

01:31:20 ◼   ► So should I reword it to be that?

01:31:22 ◼   ► No, because you just explained yourself, so stand by your pick.

01:31:28 ◼   ► And a little change is marked by an increase in number.

01:31:36 ◼   ► It's wild to me that in the same predictions, you have said Apple will revamp every single

01:31:46 ◼   ► Mac, right?

01:31:48 ◼   ► But they're not going to go up a generation at any point.

01:31:51 ◼   ► I'm not saying there won't be an M2.

01:31:52 ◼   ► I'm saying the number marks the generation.

01:31:56 ◼   ► I don't think that you get these are now multiple different picks at this point.

01:32:00 ◼   ► What is going on with this?

01:32:01 ◼   ► Yeah, these are multiple different picks now because now you're saying they can have an

01:32:04 ◼   ► M2, right?

01:32:06 ◼   ► Like why don't you just say that?

01:32:10 ◼   ► Right okay because we're all getting confused now.

01:32:13 ◼   ► Okay so just okay just make it the first part.

01:32:17 ◼   ► Faster Apple Silicon chip is named M1 not M2.

01:32:21 ◼   ► Just say there's going to be a chip named M1X.

01:32:24 ◼   ► That's the pick.

01:32:25 ◼   ► rid of the M2 part. You don't even know if it's gonna be faster. There will be a chip named M1X. Done.

01:32:33 ◼   ► Why have you chosen that? Why have you put all your eggs in the X basket? M1 followed by a letter.

01:32:43 ◼   ► There you go. M1 followed by an A. Alright, the next one is also about naming. We see the iPhone 12s this year, not the 13.

01:32:51 ◼   ► I see I think you're wrong here. Why though? I think they've gotten rid of the S now. They did it last year

01:32:57 ◼   ► You can't say it's gone yet. No, I think they're gonna get rid of it. I genuinely do

01:33:02 ◼   ► I think you're gonna get rid of it. They did it with such passion that okay, you know, well 12s

01:33:08 ◼   ► No, no, we're not saying no. No, don't say there's gonna be an iPhone 13. It's not please don't reverse your pic

01:33:12 ◼   ► I'm not just keep it as it is. I'm not gonna reverse it

01:33:15 ◼   ► You've never talked me into changing a pic. My opinion is that they will from now on

01:33:19 ◼   ► implement that increment by a solid number every time like it will be like 13 14 15 if they keep numbers

01:33:26 ◼   ► But I think they will I don't want them to but I think they will

01:33:29 ◼   ► Apple ships an AR dedicated device. What is what does this mean? It means it's a device dedicated AR

01:33:37 ◼   ► Well, what is an air tag?

01:33:39 ◼   ► It's something for tracking things

01:33:41 ◼   ► Okay, so you're saying like?

01:33:44 ◼   ► No, it's strapped me and baby. I want to see the world. Mm-hmm

01:33:48 ◼   ► What if it's mixed reality, AR and VR?

01:33:52 ◼   ► I would say that still counts.

01:33:54 ◼   ► That's not dedicated then, is it?

01:33:56 ◼   ► Because Apple will sell it as AR.

01:33:58 ◼   ► Okay.

01:34:00 ◼   ► What if they do VR as well?

01:34:01 ◼   ► What Apple does now is mixed reality, really.

01:34:04 ◼   ► I take it back, these are the best flexes I've ever heard on the show.

01:34:08 ◼   ► They won't apologize.

01:34:10 ◼   ► Babe, these are really excellent.

01:34:11 ◼   ► We weren't expecting Federica to be one up so soon.

01:34:14 ◼   ► but also the following two are just...

01:34:17 ◼   ► *mwah*

01:34:18 ◼   ► Japanese...

01:34:19 ◼   ► This is so good!

01:34:21 ◼   ► I love this.

01:34:26 ◼   ► Please go on.

01:34:27 ◼   ► Please never stop.

01:34:28 ◼   ► I hope we have seven of them.

01:34:29 ◼   ► Can you just...

01:34:30 ◼   ► Where did we settle with the AR one?

01:34:32 ◼   ► An AR or MR.

01:34:34 ◼   ► Yeah. That's good.

01:34:35 ◼   ► What about VR though?

01:34:37 ◼   ► Apple ships and R dedicated to the fights.

01:34:43 ◼   ► Apple ship something from another reality.

01:34:46 ◼   ► No, just say AR, VR, MR.

01:34:48 ◼   ► Go for it.

01:34:49 ◼   ► AR, AR, VR, OR, AND, OR, MR dedicated device.

01:34:59 ◼   ► And or, sure.

01:35:01 ◼   ► That's really what was missing from the video.

01:35:06 ◼   ► Wait, you can't have AR, VR, AND, MR.

01:35:09 ◼   ► And or MR.

01:35:10 ◼   ► There's no and.

01:35:11 ◼   ► And or.

01:35:11 ◼   ► No, but...

01:35:12 ◼   ► Hmmm.

01:35:13 ◼   ► That ore's doing a lot of work.

01:35:15 ◼   ► Yeah.

01:35:16 ◼   ► Alright.

01:35:17 ◼   ► Number five of six.

01:35:22 ◼   ► No Mac gets cellular data option.

01:35:26 ◼   ► There we go again with the negative peak.

01:35:29 ◼   ► Okay.

01:35:30 ◼   ► They would have... why would you not have done it off the bat?

01:35:32 ◼   ► I don't think it's coming.

01:35:33 ◼   ► Because they didn't change anything else.

01:35:35 ◼   ► There's a little cellular radio in there.

01:35:38 ◼   ► But they changed nothing.

01:35:39 ◼   ► They did the whole logic board.

01:35:41 ◼   ► totally different computer inside. But like nothing else changed in these machines. All they did

01:35:46 ◼   ► was get the new chips in them. Yeah all they did was completely redesign the logic board from the

01:35:51 ◼   ► ground up. The perfect time to do this. But by that logic you are saying they will add no more

01:35:57 ◼   ► features of any kind to the Apple Silicon Mac. No I'm just saying that the Oportune time would have been

01:36:02 ◼   ► with the first ones. No Mac it's cellular data option. Also I think Apple's just happy with the way that

01:36:08 ◼   ► the handoff hotspot stuff works, which they shouldn't be, but they are. Okay. And last but

01:36:16 ◼   ► not least, 2021 will bring a loss to the Apple family. The iPod touch will be cancelled.

01:36:25 ◼   ► Oh come on, the iPod touch too? What did it do? Nothing, that's the point. Yeah, why cancel?

01:36:33 ◼   ► first been there, then the iPod touch is really going downhill.

01:36:37 ◼   ► Look, the iPad mini has taken over what it, or the cheap iPad has taken over what people

01:36:45 ◼   ► wanted the iPod touch for. It's amazing to me it's still hanging on. Let me just read you some

01:36:50 ◼   ► technical specifications of the current iPod touch. And I doubt that it's trash, but like,

01:36:56 ◼   ► see if this sounds like a product Apple cares about. Okay. It has a four inch screen.

01:37:02 ◼   ► So pretty tiny. The A10 Fusion, two gigabytes of RAM. It was updated last May of 2019. The update

01:37:13 ◼   ► before that was in 2015. It went from the A8 to the A10. That was effectively it. No one wants

01:37:21 ◼   ► these hanging around. People got to support them. What if what did their software? What did the last

01:37:26 ◼   ► iPad mini having it before the iPad mini

01:37:30 ◼   ► Let me see the fifth generation similar had an a12

01:37:37 ◼   ► The one no the one before I know I'm comparing and scrolling the one before that included the a8

01:37:45 ◼   ► Right so so the the iPad mini

01:37:48 ◼   ► Went further than the new iPod touch did when was the iPod touch?

01:37:52 ◼   ► Now my touch is still two generations behind the iPad mini. It's term of processor. It's time to go

01:37:57 ◼   ► And I think it's gonna happen in 2021

01:38:01 ◼   ► It's just that the expression the iPod touch is cancel

01:38:05 ◼   ► Well discontinued no, no, please keep canceled

01:38:13 ◼   ► When have we ever referred to a product going away as canceled

01:38:21 ◼   ► This is not a thing that we know anyone's ever said.

01:38:27 ◼   ► Maybe it's just on my mind, you know, there's been stuff going on. You know, I think I'm

01:38:31 ◼   ► really in a strong position for the next year.

01:38:33 ◼   ► I really think you are. I really think you are.

01:38:38 ◼   ► Do you?

01:38:40 ◼   ► Starting off 2021 on the right foot, metaphorically, Steven, of course.

01:38:44 ◼   ► Yeah, I can't put much weight on my right foot.

01:38:49 ◼   ► [laughter]

01:38:53 ◼   ► Oh babe. Foot surgery joke. Well that's what we're going to be looking forward to in 2021.

01:39:00 ◼   ► We keep these in the bottom of our document, we check in on them throughout the year,

01:39:05 ◼   ► and we're really excited to do so. Congratulations again to Myke for being the annual chairman

01:39:12 ◼   ► this year. You and I reign side by side. Not really.

01:39:16 ◼   ► Federico is nowhere to be found.

01:39:18 ◼   ► I wouldn't say it's side by side. I would say the annual chairman.

01:39:22 ◼   ► It's still a bit of a higher pedestal than the annual chairman.

01:39:24 ◼   ► I don't think so. Because the longer you're the keynote chairman, the better you are at the game.

01:39:29 ◼   ► How long have you been keynote chairman?

01:39:31 ◼   ► Since November.

01:39:33 ◼   ► That's not very long.

01:39:34 ◼   ► It's true. It also is more dependent on Apple's release schedule than me or anyone else.

01:39:40 ◼   ► And also like, you know, you have to pick so far in advance with the annuals.

01:39:45 ◼   ► Yeah, and there are no rumors really that you can bank on if you're playing the game, right? So, you know

01:39:52 ◼   ► But you know, it's a nice thing that you did if you want to find links to the stuff

01:39:57 ◼   ► We spoke about head on over to our website relay.fm/connected/327

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01:40:18 ◼   ► You can find us all online. You can find Myke on Twitter as I M Y K E

01:40:25 ◼   ► Myke hosts a bunch of other shows here on relay FM Myke. What are you up to in the coming days?

01:40:32 ◼   ► Recording more shows as I always am on Friday. I'm gonna be back on Twitch Myke got live

01:40:39 ◼   ► I've had to set up my streaming situation at home

01:40:42 ◼   ► now, because we're in lockdown again. But if you want to join me on Twitch at 1pm Eastern

01:40:49 ◼   ► time on Friday, please do that. Myke.live.

01:40:53 ◼   ► You can find Federico on Twitter, if it's V-I-T-I-C-C-I, and he is the editor-in-chief

01:41:02 ◼   ► of MaxStories.net. Federico, I have a question for you.

01:41:08 ◼   ► First one of the new year, so...

01:41:10 ◼   ► I know.

01:41:11 ◼   ► waiting for it. I've thought a lot about this and I've looked at a lot of

01:41:14 ◼   ► articles. What is the worst text that you accidentally sent? Worst text? Huh? Huh.

01:41:26 ◼   ► You accidentally sent. Accidentally sent? I once sent a message to Jeremy Budge

01:41:32 ◼   ► that included a pet name for Adina and he didn't let me forget it for a long

01:41:36 ◼   ► time. There are maybe a couple of episodes in my life that I guess I learned my lesson

01:41:44 ◼   ► and I never did it again. When I was 15 or 16, I meant to text my ex about the night

01:42:03 ◼   ► before but I accidentally texted my mom.

01:42:07 ◼   ► We'll just leave that there. Yes, thank you. Thanks. I assume she wasn't your ex at that point? No. No? Very much not. No, no, but we didn't break up

01:42:26 ◼   ► because of the text, so to this day she doesn't know, so... But you were grounded.

01:42:30 ◼   ► No, I wasn't. I wasn't. You can find me on Twitter as ismh and my writing over at

01:42:38 ◼   ► 512pixels.net. This week on Twitch I rebuilt a fifth generation iPod and it

01:42:44 ◼   ► totally worked when I was done so that's a victory. Which is rare for you so far.

01:42:50 ◼   ► You've been having some bad luck on your Twitch stream. Yeah. So that one went

01:42:56 ◼   ► great though. Yeah. I watched it. Thanks. I'd like to thank our sponsors this week

01:43:00 ◼   ► Squarespace, Smile, and Pingdom. Until next week gentlemen, say goodbye.

01:43:05 ◼   ► Arrivederci. Cheerio. Bye y'all.