(sighs heavily)
- I would've bet money that Apple was going to announce
a replacement for the Mac Pro at this year's WWDC
because two years ago, when they announced
that they were going to be transitioning to Apple Silicon,
they committed that they were gonna finish it
within about two years.
Well, they didn't.
But what Apple did show
is that there is a whole new generation
of Apple Silicon already,
a brand new laptop,
a leap in iPad productivity,
and a whole bunch of features for services and softwares.
So, let's unpack all the announcements
and I'll tell you what I think
(bright upbeat music)
It looks like less than two years after the M1 was released,
we're getting its successor, the M2.
This update cadence is interesting to me
as we only just got the M1 Ultra variant a few months ago
which means that the M2 can't be faster than the M1 Pro
found in the MacBook Pro.
And it isn't.
While the CPU core count remains the same
as the vanilla M1,
there are modest improvements everywhere.
Two more GPU cores, a media engine with ProRes acceleration,
more memory up two 24 gigabytes,
faster memory bandwidth at 100 gigabytes per second
and a new five nanometer process, probably like the A15.
Aside from significantly faster ProRes performance,
things remain modest with Apple's claimed
18 and 35% performance increases compared to the M1.
Still absent his support for Thunderbolt 4
and more than one display.
The latter of which this much slower
Intel MacBook Air can do by the way.
And speaking of MacBook Air, there's a new one.
Arguably Apple's best and most important laptop
has become much better.
It essentially cribs the current MacBook Pro design
in a much thinner package.
It gets the same lovely MagSafe connector,
same keyboard and same notch.
Despite the shape,
this isn't the same screen you get in the Pro models
with their ProMotion and XDR.
But it is improved compared to the last year.
Brightness is up 100 nits to 500 and it supports more color.
Billions apparently.
What I'm most disappointed with
is the colors on the outside.
Instead of the bright colors
we have come to love on the iMac,
what we get is Midnight and Starlight
alongside the traditional Silver and Space Gray.
And I really can't figure out which one I would choose.
Probably Midnight just because it's novel.
New MacBook Air also costs more too
with a starting price of $1,200.
For a hundred dollars, you can get 10 GPU cores
or these still confusingly named 13-inch MacBook Pro
with the same chip and fan.
Lovers of the touch bar,
I'm guessing this is your last chance.
This and the fact that Apple will still be selling
the M1 MacBook Air for $1,000
really completes the Apple laptop price spectrum.
No longer do you choose the Mac you need and pay the price.
Now, you can pick the price and get the MacBook to fit
because there are no deals.
That's the hardware.
It's an enticing and small step forward.
But this is the developer's conference.
And what matters here is the software.
And Apple announced something
people have been clamoring for on the iPad for a while.
And I will tell you about it.
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Now, who's calling me?
So ,I've been having pretty big arguments
with people at the office about the iPad.
There's a real desire to see the iPad become more Mac like.
Something I don't agree with.
Really, what a lot of people want
is for the iPad to run macOS.
Well, it still doesn't.
But the improvements to iPadOS
bring it closer ever so slightly.
Craig Federighi announced desktop class apps
which really just means
that Apple's first party system apps on iPad
have features that have been in macOS for 20 plus years now.
So, customizable toolbars, and find and replace.
More importantly, the iPad now supports resizable windows
and to organize all the windows,
Stage Manager groups them on the side
enabling you to retrieve and group them as you see fit.
I'm not sure that this is all that great
on a small iPad screen
but it is great for external displays with display scaling
which the iPad now supports.
Stage Manager is coming to the Mac 2 for some reason.
Multitasking on the iPad has undergone
a confusing evolution with mixed metaphors
and undiscoverable implementation.
So, I'm curious how it's going to work in practice.
It shows that the iPad is getting more capable
which is good,
but there are still some structural issues
that the platform is going to have to figure out first.
iPhone users should enjoy their lock screen
getting more purposeful and customizable.
Notifications have been pushed down to a bottom wheel
to free up your background picture.
The clock numbers can peak behind your image subject
and be in a different font.
You have a choice of six.
And you can add widgets.
By all appearances, the customizations
look a lot like Apple Watch complications.
Speaking of Apple Watch,
the focus on health has been interesting.
For runners, the watch gets a feature called Sensor Fusion
which interprets how you're running
just from your arm movement.
This includes measurements of vertical oscillation,
ground contact time and stride length.
For me, I'm happy to see sleep tracking get improved
with sleep stages until it tells me I'm sleeping badly.
I felt a bit of dejavu during this event.
They literally mentioned
that you can get sports scores from Siri.
- [Female Voice] Being able to ask Siri
about players or teams.
- Scott Forstall announced that 10 years ago with iOS 6.
Then there's iCloud Shared Photo Library.
This is a new feature specifically
for families using family sharing.
Allowing them to have one place
where all their family photos can go.
This is great for that very specific circumstance.
But you might be interested in knowing
that Scott Forstall also announced iCloud Photo Albums
10 years ago too.
Those albums are lower quality
but they also don't use your iCloud storage either.
Now, if only Apple made their operating system
look like iOS 6.
Bring Skeuomorphism back, please.
Likewise, collaboration was already a part of notes
in Apple's Productivity Suite for years
but it was announced here.
Sure, the interaction is a little more robust
as it's integrated in the operating system Share Sheet
letting you collaborate within iMessage chat groups.
All the more reason for those Android holdouts
in your life to switch over.
iMessage.
Apple also announced that CarPlay
will now be able to go much deeper into your car
with the ability to take over all of your dashboard screens
with Apple's interface.
As a car guy,
I found the concept design they showed not very compelling.
Bunch of car makers have signed on
including ones who are switching over
to Google's infotainment operating system.
I'll be really cross though
if they don't have an option for classic CarPlay
if I prefer my car's instruments but Apple's infotainment.
This feature is a long ways off.
If you remember,
CarPlay was originally announced with iOS 7,
but didn't get added to car systems for two years,
which brings me back to these updates.
There's a lot in here that got announced.
Editable and deletable iMessages,
passkeys instead of passwords and Safari,
cool machine learning intelligence with text recognition
and the ability to lift the subject out of images.
In terms of what devices will get these updates,
well, the iPhone 8 and 10 are now the oldest to get iOS 16.
An iPadOS cuts off with the A9 powered 5th generation model.
Okay?
And watchOS 9 is not available with the Series 3
which is still available in the store.
But what I felt was missing here was a cohesive story.
What are the problems Apple is trying to solve
for their users and developers?
I heard a lot of everyone requested this
but with no curiosity or explanation as to why.
I think that would help with the development
of these features, no?
Apple has diversified itself into remarkable complexity.
There are so many different hardware models
you can buy now.
It almost feels like the '90s all over again.
And the list of features to go through is exhausting.
Even if many are really just part of cross device services.
My big question is how many will make it
to launch in the fall?
Last year with iOS 15,
many of the headline features weren't ready yet.
Some not even until a few months ago.
It begs the question.
Is Apple running faster than it needs to?
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Now, I'm curious in the comments,
what of the new features announced today at this WWDC
you're most interested in?
I'm curious who they're for.