- So we're here in San Jose, California, just after the end
of Apple's WWDC 2018 developers' Keynote, and you know what?
This was the most Google keynote that Apple
has ever presented.
What do I mean by that?
Apple announced a ton of stuff that is almost exactly
like what Google announced at Google I/O last month.
Like, feature for feature, the same thing.
What I wanna do, is I wanna look at all
the features that both Apple and Google announced
in the past couple of months and compare them,
and see how Google does it Google's way,
and Apple does it Apple's way.
But you know, one thing was the same.
Usually Apple gives you a clear overarching theme
at its keynotes, you sort of get a narrative thread.
But this time they just like announce a bunch of stuff!
Which is exactly what Google does at its keynotes.
Even though this was the most Google-y Apple keynote
in quite a while, trust me.
Apple is still Apple.
Alright, so we're back in the studio, and honestly
there's a lot of stuff we could go through,
and I wanna just jump through really rapid fire
in a few of them just to get started.
And, well here.
I'll just do this so you can look at some stuff here.
Okay, so the first thing is this timeal spend stuff.
Apple calls it Screen Time, Google
calls it Digital Wellbieng, but it's basically
an app that lets you see how much time
you're using on all the apps on your phone
and it's very, very similar.
Another thing that's very, very similar?
Oh my god, I think they might
have fixed notifications in ios; I'm so excited.
We made a video about this before, but you can
now group notifications, and you can turn off
notifications directly from the notification
without digging into settings.
And now, the last thing I wanna do, just really quick,
is Apple Photos and yo, it is a
straight rip of Google Photos.
They have the exact same features.
They've got this for you section where
it's like the Google Assistant section, where it like
magically creates fun little things with your pictures.
They have advanced search that lets you look inside
the photos and string chains of different searches together.
And they have suggested sharing, where it looks at who's
in the photos, and suggests that you make a shared album
with those people, just like Google Photos does.
But the difference is Apple Photos, when you make those
shared albums, they're end-to-end encrypted, they don't
depend on Apple looking at it in the cloud, where
Google Photos, you know Google puts
their stuff in the cloud.
Now, Apple's end-to-end encryption
is the big story here, it's the main thing that they
do differently than the way Google does it.
And that difference becomes really important throughout
this entire story.
Another really good example of it
is shared Augmented Reality, both companies announced
that you could have a shared
Augmented Reality experience among multiple devices.
Google's is cross-platform, Apple's isn't.
And, you know what?
Rather than me talk about it,
this is the one thing I got to try at WWDC,
so let's take a look at it.
We've joined the game that's being hosted
over there, so now you can see the whole table.
What's interesting about this, is us having this
shared AR experience is happening all locally.
This is all just getting done directly over Wifi.
So all the data about the position of all these things
I see it, he sees it, he sees it, it's all happening
without having to go up to the cloud.
Which is different from the way Google does it.
They use this thing called "Cloud Anchors", which
syncs it up to the cloud, then back down again.
Apple's also really good at recognizing that
you know, this object and that object, these
two Ipads know that this table is here and
that this is a shared world.
When I send something over to this guy...
He's learning how to do it, I'm just gonna
dunk on him right now by going at him.
Okay, so I hope that Verin and Felicia chose to
show you the cut where I won that game, cause I lost
most of those games.
True story when you lose a game
the word "Victory" is spelled backwards 'cause,
you know, it's a shared Augmented Reality and it
actually has the right perspectives.
Anyway, what I really want to talk to you guys
about are two features that I think are the most
important things that Apple announced at WWDC.
The first is this new shortcuts feature.
And it's very similar to what's on Android P which
is called Axes and Slices, so an app's function
breaks out of the app into the rest of the operating system
either in search, or the widget panel, or whatever.
Now the way Apple does it is you actually
set it up yourself, It's more configuration.
The way Android P does it is you just have to trust
Google is just gonna know everything and figure it out
for you.
They're very similar, but the Apple way,
it's more configured, it's more local.
The Google way, you just have to trust Google.
But the most important thing, the biggest news out of
WWDC by far, in my opinion, is this new paradigm
for the way apps are gonna work on Mac OS in the future.
This was actually my favorite moment of the Keynote
when Craig Federighi was up there and he asked like,
are we finally gonna merge Mac OS and ios, and his
answer was no.
"No!" No. It's going to be something
much more complicated and frankly, much more interesting.
But before we get into that, I wanna talk about how
Google does this, because they've already done this move.
They have taken Android apps and put them on Chrome OS.
But Google did it in a super Google-y way.
They released a pretty janky beta that literally just
took a phone app and slapped it on the desktop.
And Chromebooks have touchscreens so you could scroll
or whatever, but it worked with mouse clicking.
And they just put that on the world and let people
mess around with it, and then, over time as they
evolved the operating system, they're slowly evolving
Android apps, so eventually you're gonna be able to do
window resizing and have proper windowing,
all the rest of the stuff, but that Google way of just
like "screw it!
Put it out there and see how people
react to it, and we'll fix it once it's out there."
is not the way Apple wants to work.
Here's how Apple is doing it, so ios and Mac OS both
have the same Unix underpinnings, right?
But they have different ways to build the user interfaces
and so what Apple is doing is it's taking the
user interface builder for ios, and it's adding it into
Mac OS, it's called UI kit.
And so, you can take a bunch of stuff
that you've done to build your ios app,
do some tweaking in apps developer platform, it's called
X-Code, and then it'll turn into a Mac app that
feels like a Mac app, where you can resize the windows,
and has proper scrolling, and it doesn't work
with touchscreens, cause Macs don't have touchscreens.
I'm a little bit nervous.
I played one with a Home app, which basically
felt like an Ipad app,
just put on the Mac screen, you could resize the windows
and that was great, but it just,
I really wanted to touch the buttons, 'cause it
was a button interface that was designed for a touchscreen.
But here's the bottom line, having mobile apps on
a desktop operating system is surprisingly great.
Even in those early, janky Chrome OS betas with Android apps
it was surprisingly useful to just have a little
Instagram app, or a little To-Do app, instead of
a full-blown desktop app, or a web app in a
container electron thing, there's just literally
millions, and millions, and millions of them for ios,
and I would love to see some of those hit Mac OS.
Okay so, what did we learn?
Well, we learned a bunch of stuff about Google, they do
Google things in very Google-y ways.
They release stuff before it's ready for developers
to screw around with it, and fix it,
and they figure it out over time.
They ask you to trust the Google Assistant a lot.
Everything goes up to the cloud, Google analyzes it
with their machine learning algorithms or whatever,
you don't have to do as much configuration, which I like,
it's actually a little bit simpler than Apple's way,
but in order for all that stuff to work, you have to
give Google Assistant a ton of
access to your data and information.
Now, the Apple way, very different, you have to
do a lot of configuration, especially with the
shortcut stuff.
And while I love that that gives me,
as a user, more control.
I'm not sure I need that much control, or,
I'm not sure I wanna take the time to set all that stuff up.
Of course, the other Apple thing to do is keep
everything end-to-end encrypted, so that nobody
can see your stuff except you and the people you
might happen to share it with.
This is why I'm really excited to see what happens
when ios12 and Mojave come out this Fall,
because we'll be able to compare those two approaches.
Except, no we can't, because the most important
difference between these two companies is that
when ios says that they're gonna ship a new version
of an operating system, it goes out to millions,
and millions of customers, and they all get the upgrade
right away.
Whereas with Android P, not so much.
A tiny sliver of people get the latest version of Android
and everybody else has to wait a really long time.
So, the big difference between these two approaches
is, honestly, Apple ships.
The worm is turned in this Apple.
Even though this is a really Google Keynote,
the Apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
We're gonna be making these videos a lot more
because an Apple a day keeps the Google away.