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Christopher Weeks AI (00:00)
Episode ten β WWDC twenty twenty six.
Christopher Weeks (00:04)
Welcome to another episode of the Insanely Great Podcast. It's june eighth, twenty twenty six. And with me is my good buddy DJ. Hello, DJ.
DJ (00:16)
Hey Chris, how are you doing today?
Christopher Weeks (00:18)
I'm well. I got to run on home and break down the recap of WWD C twenty twenty six, WW dub. And ready to break down some of the fun stuff that came out today. What do you think of it all? What what
DJ (00:32)
Remember
when they were cruises and you had to actually go on a cruise?
Christopher Weeks (00:37)
Yeah, I I think I'm not old enough for that.
DJ (00:40)
I'm not either. I just remember Leo Laporte talking about it. So what did I think? I think that it was very much different because in the old ones, I remember them typically breaking down their talking points by device. But this felt more like we're just going to talk about not as much of like per device operating system, but just the ecosystem in general. Like I if I
I recall them hitting it straight off with liquid glass and performance, which was great to hear, but it wasn't really subdivided. Did you catch that?
Christopher Weeks (01:14)
I did. you know, I f I found it a little bit funny that what they started off with last year, which was liquid glass, sent them trying to say we're trying to give it a more modern look and feel. They started this one off saying we're making some refinements to liquid glass, now we're giving you choices, you can go lighter or a darker tint, but we're still not giving the option, if you absolutely hate liquid glass, to turn it completely off. though though people have
DJ (01:38)
I mm
Christopher Weeks (01:40)
gone through these like hijack accessibility features and turn this off and that off and then you can get liquid glass to make it look like it's completely turned off.
DJ (01:50)
Well, that's essentially what I saw them doing was we're adding a s like a ton of accessibility features. But the more they did it, the more it felt like the old interface before twenty six. It the more it felt that like cloudy, not glass, but more like fogged up glass.
Christopher Weeks (02:08)
Yeah. I mean that being said, I've had no problems with liquid glass and I've gotten used to it. I like it. In fact I I want Photoshop to dive more into that so my Mac doesn't look so different when I go from one app like the Photos app or Google Chrome and then I go to Photoshop, it just looks completely different. β
DJ (02:28)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (02:31)
I will say to start this off with that I feel like the WWDC events are always very tough to do because they don't want to show their hand for what products they have coming. So they can't tip they can't give things away like we're about to have this processor and this iPhone will be able to do this and blah blah blah. I was
DJ (02:40)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (02:54)
quite frankly, really disappointed that there were no product announcements. Not one.
DJ (02:58)
Hmm.
I don't really remember them being a a lot of product announcements in this show though.
Christopher Weeks (03:06)
well, I mean th well there were always like some this is when they would occasionally drop the new MacBook Pros for June for people that buy laptops in August before school. so I don't I was. you know, some of the product lines were running long in the tooth and
DJ (03:13)
β
Mm-hmm. Were you anticipating like an M6?
Christopher Weeks (03:25)
The Apple TV is about to set the record for longest item that's been updated. You know, that's kind of a mixed bag. What do you what do you need to add to it? you know
DJ (03:28)
Mm.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's that's a what can you add to it? I mean, I'm sure they have something, but I'm with you. I've I've had my Apple TV for years now and never really thought that I needed upgrade.
Christopher Weeks (03:48)
Yeah. Well the r the rumored tea leaves that I kept reading for that was that they need to put a more beefier Apple T V chip to handle the Siri AI requests that they want the Apple T V to be able to do.
DJ (04:03)
Hmm. Would so we haven't got to that point yet, but are we talking about like running models locally or just transferring the request to the cloud?
Christopher Weeks (04:04)
I don't know.
I think it's gonna be transferring the request to the cloud, but you know, you think that the Apple T V in its current state would be able to handle that level of performance?
DJ (04:25)
No. It gets laggy fast.
Christopher Weeks (04:27)
Yeah, yeah. I mean yeah, I have a problem with when I record ultra high def four K videos that are a very high bit rate, the Apple T V kind of chokes on it running it on the H two sixty four, but the H two sixty five codec it seems to not choke on. And that's because I think there is a native codec on the the hardware.
Or maybe I r need to record it at a lower bit rate. Who knows? Yeah. β Yes, yes. Yeah. Alright, well let's let's talk about so there was long there was long discuss that the tea leaves were that this is gonna be more of a snow leopard update, that this is going to be a lot more about fine tuning the previous iOS twenty six on every device, which the first
DJ (04:57)
Or or or or down convert before shi shipping, yeah.
Christopher Weeks (05:22)
Twenty thirty minutes, you heard a lot of it's going to be faster, this is gonna be more efficient, this is going to be, you know, XYZ. So we got a lot of that. It's nice to know that when I send a message to you via airdrop, it'll now be fifty percent faster. β eighty percent faster.
DJ (05:27)
Mm-hmm.
Eighty. So I I captured
a bunch of those numbers. Yeah. Eighty percent quicker.
Christopher Weeks (05:42)
Yes.
what were some of the other highlights for what's gonna be faster?
DJ (05:46)
apps are going to launch 30% faster due to, I guess, precaching of some kind, they said. 80% on the airdrop, a new CPU scheduler, even for older iPhones. So that'll be cool. That'll be cool for anyone back to iPhone 11, which they said they're supporting this time. And also, and I don't know how they're going to do this, but I have seen it myself. Cellular to Wi Fi transitions back and forth. Man, iPhones really struggle with that.
Christopher Weeks (05:59)
Mm-hmm.
Right, right.
Yes. You know, and you would think that we'd be in an era where behind the scenes that the the network adapter could be able to run a very minute speed test to determine which network is better to be on the cellular one or the Wi Fi network that it's on. And if you're on a really shitty Wi Fi connection that's getting
DJ (06:24)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (06:37)
eight megabytes down and one megabyte up and you have the cellular connectivity of three hundred down and fifty up that it would just be like you know what, I'm gonna skip the Wi Fi, I'm just gonna leave you here where it's more stable.
DJ (06:43)
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, or
even a a constant ping looking for network stability. Anything. Anything is better than w I don't know what it does now. But I did I did see iMessage. iMessage and I've had this happen to me in those transition situations where if you're sending a photo and you send a message, they just queue up and they're gonna basically go async now. So that was nice too.
Christopher Weeks (06:54)
Yes. Right.
Yeah.
So they're gonna go one at a one at a time.
DJ (07:15)
More like concurrently.
Christopher Weeks (07:17)
Right, right. Well, that's good.
DJ (07:19)
So even if
your picture is uploading, it'll have its own uploading status, essentially. And you can still send messages. And then one of the things that
Christopher Weeks (07:24)
Right. Yeah. I did see speaking of photos being sent, I did
see that the photo galleries now that you create for shared galleries with friends will now be in the native full resolution.
DJ (07:35)
Mm-hmm.
I didn't know it wasn't before to be honest with you.
Christopher Weeks (07:41)
Yeah, everything was down res to seven twenty P and like three megapixel. I think maybe even five. Yeah. β but also, along those lines, if you send a link to a gallery share that it's an Android user, they'll also be able to upload photos and videos to your shared gallery. that that's a
DJ (07:46)
I didn't know that. Huh.
Yeah.
I'm just wondering,
like, are they going to need an app for that?
Christopher Weeks (08:09)
I mean they'll probably build it into the Photos app. If they need another app for it, we're just gonna get crazy here.
DJ (08:14)
Well I mean on Android.
Christopher Weeks (08:16)
Yeah, yeah. I mean I could probably see it just being a link where you just link to and then it'll ask you what do you want to share. β so the big big news other than a lot of things being faster and everything was the new Google Gemini integration with Siri and they're calling it Siri AI.
DJ (08:23)
β yeah, that makes sense.
Mm.
Christopher Weeks (08:42)
This is probably the worst kept secret ever. Yes. New series, like yeah, better not call it New Coke. New Coke was pretty terrible. Yeah. I was kind of moderately laughing because Craig Federe sat down with a panel of people where he was asked questions about the Google Gemini integration and how tight it is and everything, and his response was
DJ (08:45)
This is new theory, like new Coke.
Christopher Weeks (09:07)
of course we don't have the Gemini app as our app. In fact, none of the client code is part of how we run on iOS for these models. We use none of the models that Google deploys to their customers, nor do we use the infrastructure and means by which they deploy models to their customers. And then when it comes to the knowledge base, we of course don't use Google search or anything like that as our foundation of our system. So I hope that's clear. The amount of Google Assistant we use is none.
DJ (09:35)
Minimal. So it sounds like they're running these Google models themselves. Or at least sc scrubbing with the private cloud scrubbing whatever goes to the API if it's from Google.
Christopher Weeks (09:37)
Yes. Yes.
Yes.
I well, it's my impression that they were giving the given this like bare bones, whitelisted, remove all the excess everything from it. And this is sitting in this private cloud server where it's just people are gonna be dialing into it.
DJ (10:08)
Interesting. Okay. So
Christopher Weeks (10:10)
is that not
what you thought?
DJ (10:12)
I wasn't sure how they were doing it with Chat GPT. And I don't I didn't know if this was going to be reflected in the same way. From what I understood.
Christopher Weeks (10:19)
Chat
chat G BT's gonna be a little bit different. It's gonna be a different handoff.
DJ (10:24)
Is it staying? Is the do you did you see if the chat GPT integration is staying?
Christopher Weeks (10:30)
I think it's staying, but from what I've read there's also gonna be the ability to ask like input four or five others. β this is how they're getting around the the lawsuit that Elon Musk filed. Is
DJ (10:38)
Mm.
I thought it was OpenAI
that filed it, actually.
Christopher Weeks (10:47)
it might have been OpenAI, yes, but it was. It was OpenAI that filed it, but also ROC X AI f filed a lawsuit saying that they're giving system level privilege to open AI that nobody else has access to. Which is a loose stretch, but maybe you can see it. I mean, you know I mean
DJ (11:06)
Mm.
Yeah. Kinda.
Christopher Weeks (11:12)
But you know, this I view it this way. Seriously, that action button on the side, you can literally set that for anything you want. Like you c it can be grok or anthropic or whatever you want. So like if somebody's really dying to have Grok be their talking service, it's literally just a fourth grader could figure out how to do that.
DJ (11:19)
Yeah.
Yeah, and you could set it for a shortcut. I know there's plenty of people that have made shortcuts that'll like let you message each any one of them you want. So there's always ways around.
Christopher Weeks (11:42)
Yeah. So the but to get the best performance out of the model and the benefit, you're gonna have to download these models and it's gonna have to run on your machine natively and they kind of surprise some people with how beefy kind of the specs are.
DJ (12:00)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (12:02)
Were you surprised by that?
DJ (12:03)
Yeah, actually, because I here's why. The whole time they were going through this, in my head, I was imagining these are the the two models that they released a couple months back, the E two B and the E four B models, which both will run on an iPhone. I have an iPhone 16 Pro. I think it's got eight gigs of RAM. That'll run there. Even the four B will run there. So I kept thinking to myself, okay, like
at least phones down to mine are going to get the advanced AI features because this was the generation that brought in those advanced AI features, right? It was released with with Apple Intelligence. And I was thinking they made this huge promise when they released this phone. So this phone at least has to be supported. And then you tell me the news that it's not.
Christopher Weeks (12:39)
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
You you mean the one that is all about Apple
intelligence that they advertise for the AI?
DJ (12:51)
E
exactly that they advertise for all this. They kicked this off. Yeah. That's the whole reason I upgraded that year.
Christopher Weeks (12:56)
Yeah. That's
yeah. I mean that's gotta be a that's gotta be a big kick in the balls for people that were like, you didn't bring us the AI features that we wanted and in two years time or three years, whatever it is, I think two in two years time when you're gonna make an announcement about integration with your app your Siri AI, we no longer meet the system requirements to run it.
DJ (13:04)
Yeah.
Yeah. So do you have the exact devices that are going to support the more advanced intelligence?
Christopher Weeks (13:28)
D are you asking me if I have the list? β I do. yeah, let me find it. β
DJ (13:30)
Yeah. Like could you have that to read out? I'm sure people listening would
Like to
hear that 'cause we're we're poking at it, right? Like iPhone sixteen pro isn't gonna get it. Obviously nothing below that. So what we'll get it.
Christopher Weeks (13:47)
Yeah, it's kinda weird. Here's here's a puzzle one that I couldn't figure out. I have a Mac Studio with an two Ultra that has ninety six gigs of RAM and it isn't powerful enough to run it.
DJ (14:01)
Right, right. I they must be basing this off of like the base config. Like they want every my guess is what so you I want to say it's an M4 and up, right? So the M4 and up must be
Christopher Weeks (14:15)
It's the three up three
up for the Mac. It's the iPhone seventeen Pro and above for the iPhone.
DJ (14:26)
Man, they really cut that one short on the iPhone.
Christopher Weeks (14:27)
N n n
it's not the base model. so
DJ (14:32)
Yeah.
So the air isn't even supported. And that was like the big new phone last year.
Christopher Weeks (14:39)
Yeah.
DJ (14:40)
Hey, sorry if you bought a brand new air, but you're not gonna get all the new features and your phone's a less than a year old.
Christopher Weeks (14:40)
Yeah.
Yeah. It's crazy. β
DJ (14:49)
Wow
Well
Christopher Weeks (14:51)
Yeah, the iPhone I the i i pads gotta be an four or bigger. Crazy.
DJ (14:57)
That's isn't that the newest one? Or did they have a five? Okay.
Christopher Weeks (15:00)
Yes. Well no no there's an five. β
and the Apple Watch series ten or later. Great.
DJ (15:07)
It must my guess is it has to be based on the base configuration of that generation. So my guess is the M4 iPad, every one of them, even the base one, has enough memory to run the advanced features. Like you got to find the floor somewhere, right?
Christopher Weeks (15:22)
Yeah.
Well, you know, th this is I'm putting the asterisk down this. This is what you need to run the the Siri AI natively. Otherwise it's going to make the phone call out β to the the private relay server and it's gonna be like how you are when you talk with Claude or OpenAI right now.
DJ (15:34)
Mm.
Okay.
Which isn't bad. It's not a bad experience.
Christopher Weeks (15:48)
No, it's not bad,
especially if they you know, have got the the relay times down pretty fast. β you know, anyway. So
DJ (15:56)
Yeah. There there are a lot
of Apple devices out there, so you know, it is quite a load.
Christopher Weeks (16:01)
For that
for that for just the phoning out, that one goes back all the way to the iPhone twelve Pro Max. β you'll you'll get the you'll get the ability for that, and then it's like an iPad Air two or whatever it is, and I don't know, it goes goes pretty deep on the ability for that to just phone out.
DJ (16:11)
Hm, okay. That ain't bad.
So do so one of the things that they brought up that I was excited about was the the dic advanced dictation and the the one where it can speak to you more naturally. They were saying those were advanced features. Do you know if they mentioned that those would also be over the air or were those only for the new devices that could run it on device?
Christopher Weeks (16:37)
Right.
I think they're only devices that are running native.
DJ (16:51)
Man. Because I don't know if you played around with this, but Google released a dictation app that just kills it on iOS and Mac OS and it runs the E2B model. And it doesn't overheat your phone or anything. It's really, really great on Mac. And I just I got excited because I felt like a lot of these things that Google was putting out were almost like
Christopher Weeks (17:04)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (17:15)
precursors to see how these things would run on Mac later. And that we would be getting those features here, but Apple has chunk that out the window.
Christopher Weeks (17:19)
Mm-hmm.
Yeah. okay, so break it down. There's two tiers. There's tier one, which is the standard Si Siri AI. it requires the same hardware as existing Apple intelligence cur currently and it runs on iPhone fifteen, fifteen pro max, pro iPad mini, and iPad models with an one or later. And Mac with an one or later. But
Craig said Tier 2, which is Apple's most powerful on device model, which has a stricter requirement. To run this on device model, you'll need 12 gigabytes of unified memory, up from the previous 8 gigabyte minimum for Apple Intelligence. This means that the following iPhone 17 Pro, the 17 Pro Max, and the iPhone Air.
are the only iPhone devices that are capable of running that. Not the air is that skinny one β that people bought, but the base model that a lot of people bought because they didn't like the air is excluded from that. It only has eight gigs of mem memory. M4 or later iPad with at least twelve gigs of memory. yeah it's really the
DJ (18:17)
So the air is included.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So they did get
into mentioning memory, which is especially when you think about an iPad, because iPads typically come in two flavors, like and it it's dependent on the storage, which is really crazy. But if you don't buy the high-end storage, you don't get the extra memory. So you could still have an M4 and be completely left out.
Christopher Weeks (18:39)
Yeah.
Right.
Mm-hmm.
Right, right. they did tout a lot that finally and I feel like this has kind of been long overdue, that your photos app will be able to finally search for photos that you're looking for. If I tell it give me foot Thanksgiving photos from last year, it will the way it works right now is it's terrible and sucks and β can't find anything.
DJ (19:17)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (19:19)
But it it's gonna be it's gonna actually be able to identify what's in pictures and also look at dates and metadata and be able to figure out which by the way, this has been in Lightroom for like the last five years, so I'm really glad.
DJ (19:36)
I do want to
I do want to riff off that. So one of the things they mentioned when they were talking about all the speed improvements was how search was getting better across all their apps. My and my thinking here is these have to be interconnected. The search in photos has to be based on some of the researcher what would you call it enhancements they did to the underlying search. It's got it's gotta be. Now, is that
Christopher Weeks (19:50)
Mm-hmm.
Right.
DJ (20:02)
Are am I gonna get that on my sixteen pro or is that only the advanced stuff?
Christopher Weeks (20:08)
I don't know. Actually, I think that would come to everybody. I don't think that's a tier two thing. β
DJ (20:16)
Man,
you know, you were talking about the chips that are supported and you said any M1 Mac and up, the baseline M1 Mac only has eight gigs of memory. So if it's supported, why is my iPhone 17 Pro Max with eight gigs of memory not supported? You you see the inconsistencies? It's it's pure marketing. It's not it, it's I think there's a little bit of technicality there, but a lot of it is we want you to upgrade phones.
Christopher Weeks (20:26)
Yeah.
Right, right.
Right, right. Yeah. Which you know what? If if if it really comes down to AI, that's the big thing you really want. Seriously, you can just subscribe to Gemini OpenAI. The app's already there on the β iPhone and it runs just fine.
DJ (20:44)
Just what it comes down to.
Yeah.
Yeah. It I will mention this. I have been seeing online there's such a huge backlash to AI, especially in the last six months, where people have been getting impacted by layoffs, literally CEOs coming out and saying, We are laying people off and literally replacing them with AI agents. It's no secret. They're not even trying to hide it.
How Apple's not gonna get a little pushback on all this, you know, going into AI as strong as they are.
Especially if they're like, Hey, to get this new stuff, you gotta buy a a new phone too. People are gonna be like, Are you kidding me? I I don't know how to feel about this. I wanna say I suspect a slump in sales, at least in the US. But at the same time, it's a new iPhone. People it's a status symbol. I don't know.
Christopher Weeks (21:32)
Right.
Yeah.
I mean I wonder you know this is the other part of why I'm wondering why I wonder there weren't any product announcements. I'm wondering if really the the TSMC chip shortage, memory shortage caused them to push this further down the road β until September. I'm sure they would have w like to have dropped a six.
DJ (22:06)
Mm.
Christopher Weeks (22:13)
MacBook Pro f in time for school season for the kids that are heading back and capture those school sales, but just don't see it happening.
DJ (22:24)
I
back onto the memory thing. There is a huge memory shortage, and Apple's impacted just like everyone else. You would think that just due to that, they would not want to increase the memory requirements, stick with the eight gigs, and then sell you a brand new phone with fewer with less memory, or it sounds like this year, maybe even the same memory amount. If 12 is the minimum, we're going to see 12 in all the phones this year.
Christopher Weeks (22:46)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (22:52)
The writing to me is on the wall.
Christopher Weeks (22:53)
Correct.
Yeah. Yeah, makes a lot of sense. So what else were you excited about? about iOS twenty seven, the Mac OS called Golden Gate.
DJ (23:05)
I didn't see this one.
Christopher Weeks (23:07)
Yeah, so it's called You didn't see it coming or you just didn't see it?
DJ (23:10)
unfortunately I didn't see see any of it.
Christopher Weeks (23:12)
Yeah.
Well, you know, it's ironically people were joking around because the code name for the new Mac OS was internally called Big Bear. And in California Big Bear is a ski resort and it's a kind of a mountain where people go skiing, so people were like, are we really gonna call this thing Big Bear? So, but they didn't do that. they went with
DJ (23:23)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (23:35)
Golden Gate, which is a San Francis San Francisco bridge. whatever. It is what it is. I don't I don't real I don't I don't really know anybody that really talks about their OS names anymore. I mean now it's just now they now they made it so much easier with it's just Mac OS twenty six. I'm running iOS twenty six. The whole naming thing.
DJ (23:42)
Was there anything
That's yeah.
Christopher Weeks (24:01)
Just went right out the window.
DJ (24:03)
Yeah. Ma I you know, it it blew back on Microsoft big time, especially because they they always said Windows ten is the last version you'll ever need. And then like three, four years later, they're like, Here's Window eleven. And when they unified the naming across iOS, it did take me a minute because I had been in that cycle where it was always different numbers and those kind of meant something. And now
Christopher Weeks (24:08)
Mm-hmm.
Mm hmm. Yeah.
DJ (24:29)
It's going more towards how Linux typically numbers their stuff.
Christopher Weeks (24:31)
Mm.
Correct, right, right. Makes sense. So without keeping everybody so long today, give me what else you were excited about or some other talking points you wanted to hit up on the Apple announcement.
DJ (24:45)
Yeah.
So I did you s notice all the parental stuff that was included in there? It was actually a pretty large segment.
Christopher Weeks (24:54)
Yes, it was.
DJ (24:55)
Do you
know why?
Christopher Weeks (24:57)
Do you have a guess?
DJ (24:58)
My guess is they are trying to get ahead of legislation. Cause there's a lot of, you know, like a lot of states, the big P word, you you can't go look at adult material without checking your real ID. Like you actually have to submit your stuff, right? Like and then there's also OpenAI backed off of this, but they were saying, Hey, we can detect your, you know, relevant age pretty accurately.
Christopher Weeks (25:14)
Is it?
DJ (25:25)
just through AI services. So we can know if someone's under thirteen using our services or even eighteen for a lot of these. And that got a lot of pushback. But, you know, with the legislation that's state by state, and then you see who's in office, I think they're anticipating that this is only gonna get worse before it ever gets better. So I think they're just trying to head it off.
Christopher Weeks (25:46)
Mm.
Yeah. I just like with the whole parental child stuff, aren't we just gonna reach a point maybe where it's like you have to scan your ID, like take a picture of it and then it's off you go, which you know, like who trusts like how secure sending your driver's license is to anywhere?
DJ (26:07)
Right. And like these these adult sites, you know, you don't know how, who or what is running them. And you're going to like give them your ID. You're going to give them your actual okay, remember years and years ago there was an adult site that was hacked and a ton of legislatures, legislators and and everyone else, Congress people were caught up in it. You recall that?
Christopher Weeks (26:25)
Mm-hmm.
Right.
DJ (26:32)
Like this is how do we not
Christopher Weeks (26:33)
I don't, but it doesn't doesn't surprise me.
DJ (26:35)
like how do we not learn from this? How it was Madison, something Madison. How do we not learn from this? That
Christopher Weeks (26:39)
Yeah. β
was it the Holly Madison thing? No no, that's that's a anyway, yeah, I don't I don't remember. But I think it was like have an affair on your wife or something, β website, hook up and all that crap. yeah, who knows? Weird.
DJ (26:52)
Yes. Yeah.
It's it's Ashley Madison. Ashley Madison subscribers. They were all hacked, all released. It's like if these other sites are keeping up with this and they they probably have to keep their own cached version of a lot of this, it's just a matter of time.
Christopher Weeks (27:02)
Mm-hmm.
Right, right. so in closing, are you excited about iOS twenty seven, Mac OS twenty seven, watch OS twenty seven?
DJ (27:24)
I'm right now of mixed feelings only because I feel very left out and and honestly a little betrayed by Apple because as we talked about, you know, you it clearly it's not really based on memory and specs. You're s you're supporting the one Mac, but you're not going to support the iPhone sixteen pro, which has probably better specs in terms of neural network processing and the same amount of memory. Like that that's
Christopher Weeks (27:42)
Mm.
DJ (27:53)
That's a betrayal, Apple. Come on. But I am excited for a lot of the new speed ups, the smoothness. Like this is a update that went would make Chris Perillo happy. Like he switched to Android a long time ago because he's like, I'm fed up with how janky iOS has become, and he had a a good point.
Christopher Weeks (28:04)
Yeah.
My only concern is this. If somebody is already in the Google ecosystem, does this make them want to jump ship and use the Siri AI interface? 'Cause I I think you're gonna get a more up to date, more integrated, better, faster version in the Google Gemini app.
DJ (28:21)
Mm.
Personally, no.
yeah. And they have Gemini built into their OS already. Like they've had it where we haven't.
Christopher Weeks (28:38)
And
Yes.
Right. Right. So and I'm just talking about it as an iPhone user that you just uses the Gemini app because they want to search within Google or Calendar or whatever.
DJ (28:55)
Yeah. Like they they did and didn't show a lot of that off, right? Like they showed you could input calendar invites with natural language processing. That's cool. β but like they and and something I've always said for a long time now, they finally brought natural language processing into shortcuts. That should have been done long ago. β as well as Xcode.
Christopher Weeks (29:04)
Yeah.
Right. And I ge I guess you'll
be able to and I'm guessing they have access to a very early low powered version of Nano Banana with Google that they sent over because you'll be able to verbally tell it, remove the people in the background from this photo. β and it'll be able it'll be able to do that.
DJ (29:28)
Yeah.
I'm Curie.
curious to that too if it's only going to be cloud enabled or if they're going to try to run something on the phone. Cause if you go into your iPhone right now and try to do it, it's pretty pretty janky.
Christopher Weeks (29:46)
Mm.
On that note, this is just the earlier review of the WWDC twenty six. I just wanted to really quick get an episode out and talk about it, which I think we covered a lot and as we dissect more of it, more information comes out. last thought, are you in any hurry to try the beta?
DJ (30:05)
I was gonna ask you the same thing. 'Cause they said it releases I think next month for public.
Christopher Weeks (30:12)
for public, but you can if you have I don't even think they charge a fee anymore for the developer beta. I don't you you can the developer beta's already out. β and I guess there's a a waiting list for the Siri AI 'cause they don't want it flooded. So you can get on that waiting list. goody. You can have your phone where it crashes everything and then you'll know you're on a waiting list for Siri and
DJ (30:20)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (30:37)
But you can know you're running an early beta, beta one, which you know what, seriously, why would anybody want to go through that?
DJ (30:44)
No, even the public beta's last year were pr I I ran it on my iPad, it was pretty rough. Especially because the you had all the mismatch mismatches from like your app would be the old interface, but your your OS would be different. It was it was very clashing because of that.
Christopher Weeks (30:50)
Really.
Yeah.
Yeah. I mean last year I reached all the way to point to I was gonna install beta eight and I just finally reached a point where I'm like, I've gone this far, I can just wait. It's like another it's another three weeks.
DJ (31:09)
Mm-hmm.
Ha ha.
Yeah,
that's the other thing too. Like you're updating your phone what twice a month typically, every two weeks. Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (31:22)
Yes. Yeah. So
anyway, on that note, we'll say goodbye and thank you as always for another episode of Insanely Great. thank you folks, everybody, have a good day.
DJ (31:34)
Have a good one.