hey everyone welcome back to Tech Talk I'm Julia Beauchamp I am here with
computer world Apple blogger Jonny Evans and we are going to be diving into
some of the enterprise features from WWDC so stick around
okay Johnny thank you so much for calling in with us really excited to
talk about WWDC lots of announcements how was it going over there it's been so
busy longest keynote that's that's really huge and they threw so much
information out everybody I'm talking to we're all still trying to figure it out
you know there was a lot a very short space of time
okay Johnny so there's a lot of news like you said for enterprise and
consumer customers but let's focus a little more on the enterprise there's
big news new iPad OS new Mac but I really want to talk about right now is
sign-in with Apple that seems like a really interesting concept so could you
tell me a little bit more about that of course the thing with sewn-on with Apple
is it replaces existing online authorization systems for websites and
services and apps we can think of the entities the companies who offer those
services the difference to Apple provides is that it locks onto your
Apple ID and it it creates a sort of completely private experience where the
people whose services you use don't necessarily ever need to know who you
are they don't need to know your actual email address you can sort of create a
sort of a virtual email address you will still get messages from them but they
will not have access to you or your details they won't be able to track you
they won't be able to basically figure out too much about you except the
information you choose to give up this is this is quite important in lots of
different ways but when combined with some of the other enterprise features
they're bringing in managed Apple IDs as well in iOS 13 it means that Enterprise
Services can provide their employees with direct access to bespoke enterprise
apps and services in complete privacy in such a way as that no one can be trapped
and other you know we know that there's hackers and crackers in the world and
we'll make it much more difficult for people to break into people's online
services so I think that's I think that's going to be very valuable for the
enterprises the word of that spreads one problem people had when it was first
announced in people were not entirely sure if it was cross-platform but I've
looked at the notes and it seems to be in that it also provided also it works
on the web which means it can be cross-platform so I think it's quite an
exciting feature it's one of those tiny little details which could you know you
could stick it and miss it but it could be quite profound as we see it get sort
of deployed there have been some critics of the way Apple is insisting that if
you support sign-in services in your apps you must offer it as an alternative
there and some people have noted that it's going to be the top alternative but
I think it's quite a good way to encourage people to think about the
privacy exchange they're making when they sign up for these things that make
sense yeah absolutely and this is a question I had you say it's
cross-platform but I'm wondering if that signing with Apple is only going to be
available to enterprises who were already Apple shops that everyone has a
Macbook everyone has a Mac iPhone whatever I think I I don't think it is
you know because it relies on an Apple ID you don't necessarily need to have an
Apple device do to have an Apple ID but obviously it will be most used and
probably completely used by people who are already on an Apple platform in some
way I think it could it could be something encourages people to go to
that platform ooh that's a good point and it is it was an interesting point on
that you mentioned how Apple not so subtly it's not even not even a
suggestion more of us telling developers that you now need to include sign-in
with Apple it's and it's interesting of them to suggest that in a time in the
current climate where it seems there's a lot of talk about breaking up big tech
and these big tech companies have monopolies just an interesting
interesting extra push on Apple's end it sort of is but it's not anti-competitive
because the other alternative services which have got bigger market share are
still there so you know and and and I think I think
Tim Cook the other day was speaking to a newspaper I think and said well you know
we we welcome the idea of Investigation it's fair to have regulatory oversight
but he doesn't think not only not the biggest OPC provider they're not the
biggest mobile phone provider they're far from monopoly but they just provide
a quite intact cross-platform service so I think we'll see how that goes but I
guess it might depend on who does the judging these days so another topic that
I want to talk about is this new iPad OS as we all know iPads really helped Apple
push into the enterprise they're small they're compact you can do so much on
them and I'm interested to hear what the new iPad OS how that will help
enterprises what's what's going to change quite a lots changed in the new
iPad OS I've had less time with that and some of the other announcements but I'm
very impressed with the multitasking improvements I'm very impressed with
their sidecar enhancement which works with Mac's to almost turn the the iPad
into an additional control service with little touches like if you're using your
iPad in cycle mode with an iMac you will find you got a little touch bar on the
iPad surface so you can lots of little tiny thoughts like that the improvements
in slide over you know that mode where you can have an extra window open when
you're working an iPad they've now turned it into an app switch here as
well so you can literally flip between multiple apps in slide view while
actually working in split view in two other apps or two instances of the same
app which is also very important and new
Missouri this means that your iPad becomes a much more easy to use
productivity tool it enables you to work much faster between multiple apps and I
think that will have a very positive influence on on on how people work with
their iPads and as well things like the accessibility feature of mouse support
which will come in useful from the Sun and that Mouse support is it's also in
iPhones as well but it's it's it's an accessibility setting the moving
accessibility to front of the operator of the system as well as of general and
into somewhere it's easier to find is it also going to be important because
you'll find that more and more people were able to access computing tools and
actually you know operate on a pier basis with others I think that's great
it's good as it's gonna transform people's lives that aspect absolutely
yeah huge for accessibility that's it's just important to make sure that
everyone can have equal access to this really impressive tech so and it's
actually interesting all of these updates to an iPad it almost is feeling
like a lot of enterprise users can use it instead of a traditional laptop a
MacBook I mean we have MacBook Pros here maybe not yet a MacBook Pro but for
certainly I would think for a MacBook Air I can't so that's very interesting
and equally exciting again a little especially exciting for me we're
producing videos here is the new Mac Pro oh yeah this is crazy it's just such
high power and could you tell me a little bit more about that because this
is really interesting uh it's it's these deep I I spent some extensive time
looking at the Mac and and the new display yesterday and my overriding
impression this - there's lots of impressions and quite a lot of power to
discuss but the impressions I got definitely from the various members of
the Mac team some of them I've known for a long time right so they are genuinely
I think I think the people who've worked on that product are genuinely really
super pleased to be able to deliver something which is it you know if you
wanted to create the best Mac in the world they just did and that I think has
really excited to whole team they are I get a real sense of optimism and hope
and ambition and you know I think they feel really proud of this machine and so
they should because it's it's incredibly powerful it's it's absolutely the sort
of nadir if you're gonna have a perfect Mac this is it
it's also I think a symbolic of the future of the
a platform like to say we're finder I pad become more and more productive more
more useful for more and more usage cases and this kind of means that Macs
and computers generally have to sort of more increasingly meet the needs of
extremely high end users where where tablet isn't really appropriate and
that's what this map does it's it sets that ground the other thing they've done
in the design and development of the Mac they haven't just sort of stuck with ok
let's make it really good and throw a bunch of stuff together oh that's great
they've they've actually saw ok we can innovate in the technologies we use but
let's take a really deep block how people use this technology so they've
they've worked very closely with them video production houses post production
houses photographers doing high-end photographers the sort of people who
take shots on red cameras and hang from helicopters and if they've worked
closely with music producers video producers and AR etc etc and and and
they've designed the machines to meet workflow needs and that means that these
these integrate really well in people's existing workflows and they believe them
to not just optimize the technologies they use to have the very best
technology but also to optimize how they work and that that's kind of profound
because they've put as much thought into how it is deployed as they have into how
it is made and I think that's going to be really really significant moving
forward yes it is expensive no it's not a Mac for everybody but it absolutely is
a map that's going to deliver on that promise of power and those displays a
superb back I can't even imagine how that would change video production and
it really does seem like exactly what you were saying everything about it
seems like they were very intentional in this yes reduction they did a lot of
research very interesting very excited my only complaint when I was reading
over the notes and all of the announcements from WWDC the fact that
it's called XDR it just confuses me with all of the Apple at 10:06
oh my gosh me too they really had to confuse us they are they are gluttons
for a little piece of branding now and there they do like that kind of thing
I've seen the XDR in action as well beside reference monitors reference
displays high-end displays 40,000 $50,000 displays sure I've walked into a
room and sort of got treated if you like to a demonstration of the XD ours
against multiple displays from other manufacturers I'm gonna name because
that's probably not fair but my my even simple things such as consistent color
gamut both in the map display which is very clever under standard one and the
viewing angle you could you could stand beside the monitor pretty much and still
see what was on the front of it it was
five thousand bucks is a lot of money for a monitor but forty five thousand
bucks is a lot of money for a display you can get nine of these and then more
consistent they're lighter and they're more capable of different usage cases
and a lot quieter I mean so much quieter yeah yeah they've really they I asked
how they did it and again they went to the factories they worked with the
manufacturers they invented new design processes they invented new pixel it's
just gone they've invented a range of new technologies which they shoved into
this this display and if you think about it they've been working very very hard
on display technologies for quite a while think about the Retina display
think about the display in the iMac that was delivered I think about five years
ago and then they began to talk about how they worked on pixel basis in terms
of dismay technology this is kind of part of a past that they've been on for
a while so I think you know given that well you'll spend 5,000 bucks hiring a
reference display you like the high-end stuff for a week you measure by a
monitor from Apple and there it is sure you have quite a good compelling sales
point just with that they've actually met a need I think yeah absolutely it's
displays are one of those things that you I find that whenever I have an
upgraded display I can I immediately notice a difference but it's one of
those things when you see it side by side
it's like night and day but before I let you go Johnny I wanted a little bit I
know I want to talk a little bit more about something maybe a little less
enterprise focus and that's iOS 13 this is obviously a huge huge announcement
from WWDC it seems silly not to mention it and there's a lot that's going to be
coming um to the iPhone so can you hit on some of the highlights we all know
dark mode yes there will be dark mode but how about some like maybe the the
smaller features what do you think is really going to be great and what do you
have any thoughts about some things that aren't that great I don't have much that
is not that great yet I mean emojis don't sort of do it for me back they've
a lot of people love them right so that's kind of fun interesting points I
think one of the more interesting points is they continue to work in terms of
core ml and machine learning and it's I think quite astounding the amount of
work that's going on on your iPhone's know when it comes to machine
intelligence so if you think about your photo library and the photo library
improvements that are coming in I was 13 and those we already have the capacity
to sort of analyze the photos you got deliver well curated collections of
images and to do this in such a way as they look really nice this is using
intelligence on the device and this means that there is no communication
with the cloud there's no interesting talk to the cloud yeah at all it
analyzes your images on the device so when doing that so when you look at one
of the curated galleries they have an ability now for the machine intelligence
to analyze the picture figure out what the focal point is do some slight edits
to that picture so they're in the sort of gallery view you're given the picture
is optimized to look fantastic this is all happening in the neural engine on
your device no one knows it's happening no one's seen those pictures no
third-party entity has any access so those those images they are they're kind
of advancing in machine intelligence in very sophisticated ways to deliver a
model in iris 13 which is capable of doing so much
more while maintaining privacy and that privacy argument is a thread that goes
through every single announcement they made @w oh yeah see and it goes all the
way back to the beginning enter signing with apple and and you see this I think
I think there's a great deal to look forward to there but I also think you'll
see the implementation of that kind of AI a widen across apps and across the
apps that apple provides an iOS 13 over the next year they've opened up a whole
bunch of new calls they support a whole bunch of new machine intelligence models
they're kicking the cutting-edge here it's it's it's it's really good and when
does iOS 13 actually roll out it will be it's traditionally they ship these
things in full developers are already working with it and I have and and and
so that's good and the developers already working with it and that's good
sorry I'll get interrupted by something we I think we'll see the public beat in
next month's followed by the actual amount actually probably a September but
certainly in fall okay great thank you and thank you so much Johnny for calling
in it's so important to talk about what these updates are going to be it's I'm
excited I'm excited as a consumer to so really looking forward to signing with
Apple that's I'm really excited about because I never used sign-in with Google
or sign in with Facebook I'm always I'm very excited to a very interesting time
here yeah and that was as you see I was talking from my hotel room and that was
the the room keeper coming in to say hello there is there were very few bum
notes in that announcement on Monday two and a half hours of deep in information
I actually recommend if you're interested you should definitely spend
at that time watching the keynote there is lots there for everybody we've
touched we barely touched the surface in our chat and we've talked about a lot
yeah so kind of it was that kind of dub dub you know why spend that long
watching the new event when you could watch WWDC thanks Johnny
yeah thank you so much Johnny for these updates and we'll be talking more about
iOS 13 on the June 13th Twitter chat that's on the at IDG Tech Talk Twitter
and that's at 12 p.m. Eastern and make sure to join using the IDG Tech Talk
hashtag so that'll be exciting if you have any strong opinions regarding iOS
13 definitely tune into that thank you so much for watching this episode of
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