WWDC Hopes and Dreams, How Good Will Siri Get? NVIDIA Takes on Apple Silicon

0:00means move at a glacial pace you know how that thrills me welcome to primary technology the show about the tech news that matters it's our pre-wwdc show so we're going to go through all the rumors what we actually expect to see announced next week at wwdc and our hopes and dreams i actually have some feature lists from last year that came true in retrospect and some that i'm still waiting on jason has some thoughts as an app developer and we have a bunch of listener and viewer hopes and dreams for dub dub as well this episode is brought to you by nord layer and you all the members who support us directly i'm one of your hosts even robles joined by journalist

0:33jason how's it we're still doing that huh i'm still doing we got a lot of it today i just want to be clear that yeah you really have to become a member and go listen to last week's bonus episode because or not bonus episode the unedited feed yeah because otherwise it i know because i just want to be clear i'm not asking steven to call me a journalist not at all not at all but you're also not a leaker so do you know where do you know where that quote comes from by all means i do yes it's from the devil's wears prada yes that's right but the only reason i know that is because they just made a

1:05sequel that's right and i was talking about the sequel and no one in my family had an idea that this was even a movie and so we had to watch it the first one they didn't know the first one the first one they just like what is it well i mean like how would my kids know that's and my wife is not really a devil wears prada kind of kind of gal so i was like we should watch this she's more louis vuitton she's like why is cruella de vil in it i'm like exactly that's exactly the case she's very good also so we have five star reviews and i just want everybody to know that jason did not know this reference podcast seven to eight from the usa basically quoted pinky in the brain

1:36in their review and uh jason didn't know what pinky in the brain had no idea i'd never heard of it before which blew my mind so please leave us a five-star review do you know what pinky in the brain is because i was i was well acquainted and if you do have you watched the west wing don't ask me why just i want to know those two things they somehow are related and uh luke ireland said that featuring journalist jason aton and some other guys is a great show i had to um skip the first word because i'm not saying that word anymore so i said we'll see if i get the rest of the show

2:07thank you for those five star reviews and i made a terrible mistake last week i said uruguay and i mentioned it was in central america i don't know why i did that that was a geographical uh brain fart faux pas faux pas so it's south america south america will be represented by our polar bear and medieval knight pin by being an uruguay and so i'm waiting for a picture on that but i have some exciting pictures from the pin traveling the world right now because theo from the uk got his pin and that pin i got a picture right here in front of the uk flag there it is so the medieval knight traveling

2:43around and andrew made the pin all the way got it all the way to japan here's our pin at shibuya crossing in japan and then also our pin and nintendo tokyo we're there we're in asia we're in europe soon to be africa south america we just need antarctica antarctica everybody somebody we need your help we need your help we're in all seven to eight continents very fun all right so we're gonna do a big dub dub um show today our hopes and dreams what we think we're really gonna see and then we'll see

3:15who's right next week but i did want to show a couple news bits did you see this shift robots thing did you see this video no so this was announced this was friday last week and shift basically says we're going to clean your house for free this is in new york city right now they're like listen we'll come to your house we will clean it for free what is the trade what do you think the trade off is jason since you hadn't heard about this well i did just look at a tweet about it okay

3:48hold on yes that's right okay they want in exchange we record the cleaning that's right so what they want is for you to send a robot into the dirtiest corners of your life and capture it for perpetuity right so well no thank you to be clear what this service is it's actual human beings wearing a camera that will go to your apartment or home in new york city and clean for clean your house for free in exchange they are recording the entire time to send this as training data so that one day robots

4:24can do these same jobs this is worse this is not robots that are going into the worst dirtiest corners of your life these are actual people actual people with day and they say any personal information is anonymized and anything they come across you know you can you don't have to worry about that but it's still in the human's brain well it might be anonymized on the server but it's still there's a person that is true but the purpose is because we need a lot of data for how to wash dishes and load different dishwashers and i imagine some of those dishwashers in new york city are probably two dishes wide

4:59and so you know you gotta you gotta get them all you gotta train it all so yeah shift all you need you can get your house clean for free in new york city if you're willing to just have a random person wear a camera and do it i don't think it's worth it i don't know we'll see there are a bunch of people asking questions and like you know asking for more information that wants to do it so i don't know i would i would not do it i mean i would sooner have the neo x1 robot come in my house and do some stuff with just a real person in vr but then say don't only go to this room you know what i mean like

5:32don't don't don't don't go to bedrooms don't go over there stay in the kitchen stay in the living room if you cross this threshold i'm gonna kick you like self-destruct it's just gonna kick you i'm gonna kick you oh yeah so there's that there's that and then one other quick news bits so nvidia they actually had a big event in uh or this morning or early this morning that we're recording on monday in case you realize this is kind of an episode out of time but they recorded and they one announced a super chip so there's a super chip now where i forget what they call it i just had the mac rumors

6:05article up but this might be coming to windows pcs i was hoping to read this axios article but it's of course behind the paywall if you put it in the reader mode you can see the whole thing that's so weird that that's a thing no i can't look at this this this is what you're using safari if you were using a real browser you'd be able to see i'm about to i'm gonna flip a table listen to me this this is a this is axios this is the look all right we don't have time to talk about monetization and modern journalism but the fact that i can't read a single medium article or any axios article at all

6:38that just feels like it's not sustainable you know what i mean yeah i agree i'm not gonna put that a link in the in the show notes because nobody can read it but okay so this is the uh new chip this is trying to take on apple silicon the rtx spark and i saw the video they basically showed it like fusing two chips together kind of like apple talks about the ultra versions of the chips but it was announced by jensen wang and it's going to be made for ai agents made for ai agents it's going to be a super chip and we might see windows laptops powered by nvidia chips soon so there you go

7:12because you know i windows laptops powered by arm chips is going so well for them is it i have no idea no it's not at all okay i have no idea windows on arm i as far as i know is not like great well yeah okay well we'll see i mean nvidia nvidia chips though people like them people a lot of people buying people like them people like them all right let's talk about wwdc first of all journalist mark german tweeted this and i thought it was interesting kelsey peterson who was the announcer of apple intelligence two years ago at wwdc she just started at open ai so she will not be making

7:49an appearance during the keynote on monday talking about apple intelligence she's never going to get to like redeem the all the things she announced didn't come true but maybe right now so yeah i thought that was kind of funny kelsey peterson now at open ai she was the one that announced all the apple intelligence stuff that didn't come two years ago so there's that but i want to go through some of the rumors that have come out so rumor roundup and we're going to kind of give our is this actually going to happen or not because you know there's a lot of things and there's a lot

8:20of rumors that come out that actually don't come true spoiler a lot of things from journalist mark german that may or may not come right now so so number one the better personalized siri which will be and the personalized siri is like the semantic index that apple talked about two years ago where you can ask it you know what time do i need to leave to pick up my mom from the airport and siri is going to reach in and apple intelligence reach into your text messages get what information there reach into your email look at your contacts and we'll be able to you know pull all that information

8:52together and just tell you the number tell you what time you need to leave because it just knows all the things and in addition to you know being a personalized siri well let's let's rate this number one the personalized siri are we going to see that this year actually come out so this is complicated steven because i think the answer is yes but i don't think it's going to be what we saw in 2024 how do you think it's going to be different i think it will be the minimum

9:25viable product version of that because essentially what they were promising back then was what claude can do for you if you give it access to enough information yeah for sure like if claude can access your messages it could 100 do this for you right so but i don't i think that there is this inherent tension between privacy and making products that work in this space right like i don't know that you can have both of them because i think that the guardrails that apple is going to put on it is going to make it limited for example like the goal here like sandboxing sort of defeats this i know that

10:00there are ways to allow apps to share information and stuff but i'm just not sure because really they have to have the app intents work well but they could also do personalized siri stuff i mean there could be caveats like if you use spark and not mail yeah that's not going to work we can't do that that is that is going to you know i didn't even think about that challenge over these last no because nobody here's the thing the people who care the most about this as early adopters are the people who are least likely to be using the mail app and whatever right notes or whatever right don't i know

10:34of an app you could use instead of apple notes it's great you should adopt every api comes out yeah the app intents though well so better personalized siri you're saying yes with caveats i think they will talk about a personalized version of siri they may not use those exact words i think they will talk about the new version of siri and how it uses personalized intelligence which is the thing craig federighi said was a thing that wasn't a thing i think they're going to talk about all of that but i don't know that it's going to be the whole you could have a conversation with it and it's like hey what time is the flight landing and uh will we have enough time to get to our reservation like the number of

11:08things that have to be able to work for it to do and it has to just not hallucinate and be like oh yeah you're having dinner over there that is important so i i think there will be a thing i'm not convinced it will be the promise that they made in 2024 interesting i am like a four on the they're going to talk about a personalized intelligence in some version four out of five yeah i'm like a one and a half that it'll be good okay well i'm actually gonna agree with you because i feel i i like your take on

11:39this and i feel like that's probably what we're gonna see uh the other rumor that journalist mark german talked about was shortcuts i should be able to open the app and just ask shortcuts to make you something that it's just going to say what kind of shortcut would you like to build and that apple intelligence will just build it for you i'm going to say that's not going to happen i think that there will be apple intelligence maybe built into shortcuts that helps you suggest actions or maybe guides you but the full prompting from scratch i played with the shortcut studio app which is a great effort at

12:15making a having ai make shortcuts for you and even federico fatici's shortcuts playground which he spent six months you know trying to make ai make these shortcuts i don't think apple because it is unreliable like both of those methods the shortcut studio and federico's shortcuts playground they're very good but they still fail in the last 10 percent they don't connect some variables if there's ever like a repeat with each action it doesn't pick the right information usually and so you always have to do that

12:47last 10 percent and i don't like maybe apple will have a better chance at the ai making them and connect everything accurate but they're still beholden to the ai and i don't think they're going to be using their personal one even if they're using gemini i mean claude and open ai right now can't do it and those ais are pretty good and they still can't build a shortcut so i think we are not going to see like an open prompt and maybe i could be wrong we'll see you know in less than a week uh if i'm actually but i

13:18think it might there might be some guidance but you won't have like a a make from scratch what shortcut do you want and it just do it that's my prediction hmm so you said what are you saying a zero i'm gonna say a zero on like prompt shortcut creation okay i'm gonna say a three just because otherwise it's not as interesting if we agree on everything but also again i think they're gonna say something it may not be the thing that you're that you just described but i think that apple does this it's like

13:49see we we made the thing and it's like that's it no you made a thing you can say is the thing but it's not the thing and i think that that's going to happen here but i also what you what you were talking about is like the hard problem it's like there's no way to just create an algorithm that just does this you have to literally test for every possible edge case and the problem is the edge cases are infinity and so it's almost impossible in the and then the thing is they can get you 90 of the way and someone like you can figure out the last 10 and that's great it saved you some time you just

14:22have to tweak it or whatever the whole point is in theory the whole point of shortcuts is i don't have to know anything it's no code right like no code software building is what this is supposed to be and i think that that's gonna be a problem however i don't think it matters i don't think that this is gonna expose shortcuts to more people anyway no that's my job and that will still be my job sure and that's i'm safe all good all right let's do something i think we'll agree on this but we'll see last week i'll put the gift link once again but it's you're running out of time if you want to

14:55read the gifted article oh yeah that's right we're at the well thankfully we're recording early oh they're not gonna hear this early though that's correct yeah they still hear it on thursdays you have 15 minutes go exactly german said that the there's gonna be the standalone siri app i think this is accurate i'm gonna be a five out of five i think we're gonna see a standalone siri app where you can interact and chat with it and i'll have your conversation here you have history i think this is accurate what do you think i thought so you're saying five yeah i'm saying i think we're supposed to be rating these right yeah

15:29yeah okay zero to five how short i don't know if you're gonna give a five to anything to be honest but maybe we'll see i i mean the rumors make it seem like this is probably pretty likely i just paid it so all right we'll say we'll say you agree i'll put you down for a five five out of five the pick your ai this one i'm i'm unsure about so a lot of the rumors were right now there's the chat gpt integration in apple intelligence so if you want to choose that you can you know ask siri to ask chat gpt or use chat gpt in like image playgrounds and then in ios 27 you'll be able to

16:04choose between gemini claude and open ai like behind the scenes and so maybe that'll play into shortcuts that can play into image generation or just general queries so when you ask the voice assistant something you can tell to go to claude this i'm i'm not i'm not down like i don't think i'm not very sure about this i'm gonna give this a three person why don't you think this is gonna i mean you already have the ability to log into your open ai account well one i think the gemini integration is not going to be surfaced to the user i think the deal that they made with google

16:35gemini is going to power up more of the apple intelligence features but i don't think that means they're going to put a gemini login screen in settings to do that yeah but i think that this is this is different from that i think that there is a model that that they're using from gem that's a gemini model to power the underlying foundation model but that is different right right now siri has one right it's socks but it has they have one yeah i think that this is more like i love claude

17:05i just want to save all my requests and claude to use when it when this on device is not capable of doing that and so i think it's more likely than not that i think this is possibly a thing i just think that they should be building a system that the only reason to do this is you're like i just love claude or i just love gemini and what i want is when i also then go to the gemini app all the conversations i had are just there but right now that doesn't even work with chat gpt like i understand but if they're going to build a siri app for the same purpose like it makes no sense

17:37that that's if you're logged into one of those accounts that that information wouldn't just be saved there so so what do you so you're saying like four man it's so hard because i think some of this stuff is so dumb but why do you think it's dumb i think this is a four why do you think it's dumb though i think that i think the only reason this makes sense is if you can do what i just described yeah if they're not going to do that then the system should just decide what is the best model for this problem and not surface any of that to the users it makes no sense i think the people

18:09who want to use these features probably also have a particular bent towards claude or gemini it's still just going to be wrapped up in siri yeah i don't know we'll see all right what about grammarly style siri one of the rumors is that right now writing tools exist and you can like you know highlight proofread rewrite to be more professional or friendly but this is going to go even further and do like full grammar checking and stuff like that when you're writing like in mail like it's just gonna do it automatically like grammarly basically like in a web browser and stuff

18:41like that and everywhere you type this feels like i could see this in a keynote them being like yeah now apple intelligence is going to take care of all your grammar you're never going to misspell anything again yeah sure i'm gonna give it a three how about you sure all right all right we agree on three the next so generated wallpapers a you can 100 do this right now with shortcuts and apple intelligence i've made i almost did it i almost said it i've made shortcuts that you can prompt and have

19:14built-in prompts and you can have the image playgrounds action build a wall like create a wallpaper that's in the right format and just set it as your wallpaper but you can totally do that so i feel like them making it a feature that's built into like the lock screen home screen customizer be able to generate wallpapers with apple intelligence i'm a i'm a five out of five i think we're gonna see this what do you think yeah it's hard for me to be thinking of these as how likely they are because i just want to talk about you can't talk about how dumb everything is

19:46okay people like this kind of stuff what wallpaper do you use it do you use the same wallpaper all day every day never change it pretty much is it black just a black screen well are you talking about on my home screen are you talking about because like my home screen is the surface of the steve jobs theater okay i'm sorry the lock screen is just the surface of the steve jobs theater okay so like and then my home screen is just like brushed aluminum black yeah and it's been that way forever yeah and i would literally never change it and i said it and i mean it black like

20:18your soul okay let's keep going no it's because it makes it super easy to identify all the things on it okay yeah why would i want to put a picture of my kids and then cover them up with no see i do the pictures on my apple watch i do pictures of my kids on my apple watch okay so then this is perfectly fine but i also like i like color on my oh i hate that so much i i vary my home screen wallpaper a lot i use a lot of basic apple guy someone on social media thought i was the same as basic apple guy and i have no i don't know if i have any way to prove this but i'm not that would be the story of the century i have an entire text thread and if he

20:53doesn't exist it's just me talking to myself and it'll be very troubling i don't very fight club yeah so i won't reveal anymore but also he had a great quote uh he well he texted me if you believe that he exists and that i am not him he texted me this he's uh he's working on some stuff and he wanted to talk about vibe coding and i want to know if you relate to this quote as a vibe coder yourself he said being a vibe coder is like being a three-year-old trying to instruct an adult over the phone how to build furniture i actually think it is more like being an adult trying to instruct a

21:29three-year-old to build furniture but the but the three-year-old namely the ai on the other end of the phone line knows how to build an app more than us like me and you we don't know how to code so you can't say the three-year-old is on the other end yeah i think it's you know what i'm saying i thought i thought that was a pretty good analogy maybe not that we're not the three-year-old maybe we're like eight or nine i think i i can go with it i just don't think three-year-olds care about building furniture so there's a little bit of a disconnect for me well i i just like the picture

22:01of like us talking on the phone to an ai be like listen put the button over here you can do that you can call chat gpt on the phone oh yeah you can i actually did that at a like christmas they shut that down though they don't let you talk to it with whatsapp or whatever is that oh i don't know but i thought there's still like 1-800 call chat gpt or whatever okay that sounds right all right so i for generated wallpapers i put steven five jason may visual intelligence improvements this was interesting so visual intelligence you know right now do you ever use it you probably

22:32never use it visual intelligence uh i have maybe used it once or twice but i actually think it's way better to just take a photo of something and then ask your photos what it is there's that i've used well i use visual intelligence basically in the screenshot area like if i want if there's a date on screen and i want to add it to my calendar and this will go into our requests i do it that way like i'll take a screenshot the date automatically populates at the bottom i can add it to my calendar

23:02and then x out so it doesn't save the screenshot that i find like one of the most useful visual intelligence features but i very rarely hold the camera control button to go into the visual intelligence mode and like look at a puppy breed i don't do that just because i think more of the information that's useful to work with is what's on the phone screen rather than i think what you're saying is to look at a breed of puppy but what you what did i say look at a puppy breed but i just feel like that's it's not like you're using as a verb and not a noun that's fine well anyway some of the

23:36visual intelligence improvements coming might be like health interpretation style things where you can point visual intelligence maybe at a lab report or results and it'll give you some data on that it'll of course tell you it's not a doctor but business cards this is something i've created a thousand shortcuts for because people have always wanted it like looking at a business card taking a picture and then parsing the information into contacts which shortcuts can kind of do like if you just say pull text from image get phone number get address get urls from the image you can then parse that

24:09into a contact and make it so yeah visual intelligence just doing that right out of the gate seems pretty easy not easy but it seems like very very possible and that feels like a feature that like craig federici is going to show off at dub dub like look you can take a picture of business card and just add to your contacts yeah i'm a five out of five for that i think the health stuff too probably coming too sure okay great steven and jason sure great new care this was interesting new camera stuff so i was 27 the camera app might get more customizable controls which it kind of has

24:44this now to be honest like where you can move controls in and out of like that top bar or whatever but that there'll be even more customizable controls an advanced mode giving power or pro users be able to switch on the fly between certain things like you can already switch between pro raw or whatever but maybe manual focus things like that maybe this is a sure locking of some apps like halide of course halide has a bunch of other features that will not be sure locked i'm sure but yeah update a camera app i feel like they're always updating that yeah i'm sure they're gonna update the camera app and i'm sure it will have some of the things that we've seen i don't think

25:16that it's gonna have any impact on halide because they they still have to make the camera app absolutely dummy proof because it's the single most important feature on the on the iphone yes so it's the single most important feature on any piece of technology made again i we talked about in the pre-show i was at my kids dance recital i saw so many phones of people taking photos and videos with their phone number one nobody touches the zoom numbers to change camera lenses i hate it so much so do i no but no one does it everyone just pinches and

25:52zooms to frame the shot and then does it and i i want to just stand up in the dark i said everybody stop doing that stop all of the angels are getting hit by buses stop stop every time like you have like these people with pro iphones like i see they got the 3x they got or not 3x they got 2x 4x i'm like hit one of those anyway that we do not deserve this technology steven no no we deserve it i want i use those lenses all the time i hit 4x and then i hit i started the video and it was pretty amazing i

26:22posted on social media like the difference between like my seat versus the even the 8x zoom it's very good now very good especially with enough light that's the and but i was in a low light condition it was still very good yeah but there was light on the stage oh yeah there's plenty plenty light i'm not taking a picture of like pure pure darkness yeah so uh camera this is like a whose line is anyway the points don't matter i'll say uh you and i are a four for updated camera no that's a five they're gonna oh it's fine okay absolutely we'll go with that now this part i'm a little i have mixed feelings about because in addition to an updated camera app they're going to put more apple

26:57intelligence or ai features in photos like photo editing which we already have like cleanup and the subject removal but we might see yeah you know extend enhance and reframe extend enhance and reframe which enhance and it'll allow you to generate additional content beyond the original frame that that it'll make enhance just makes your photos pop a little more that's whatever fine and reframe is meant to let you shift the perspective of a spatial photo after the picture is taken which

27:32is never going to be used because no one actually takes spatial photos uh you just go in the vision pro and say make it a spatial scene but no one who's not used a vision pro is ever going to take a spatial photo well i don't i take spatial video sometimes very rarely but i will do that sometimes i don't even think i knew that was a thing spatial video yes oh but isn't that like the weird creepy thing that's just like in a little box yeah yeah yeah that's weird i did it when i i was at the skate park and we wanted to see what it would look like when my kids my sons were like jumping off a ramp

28:04and so we did it then and i did it a couple times and like at christmas when we were like opening gifts because or excuse me gifs because you could kind of i don't know it's it's kind of a cool feeling or cool cool anyway i think they are going to add more of these photo features i don't like the whole expanding the frame because then we're talking about generating content yeah but they're definitely going to do it it's five out of five yeah they're definitely gonna do it five out of five the ai ai health coach so you know google health and the fitbit air came out recently and apple already has the

28:35workout buddy which is kind of ish this not really a coach per se it's more like a motivational speaker saying like great job uh which i don't think i've used workout buddy once i mean i've gone on walks but it's never talked to me it's like you're still walking great usually it's like do you want to pause your workout i'm like no i'm still walking right am i not going fast enough right exactly don't like stop hassling me workout buddy but you seem to be taking a break i'm like no i'm not i'm just walking slow yeah uh but yeah the ai this feels again like an ai powered health coach this could

29:09play into like airpods feature i can see them talking about this during the airpods feature where they may talk you know you already got the health uh heart rate in airpods pro 3 ai powered health coach maybe giving you insights and trends saying like hey maybe you know don't get that frosted lemonade today no it's not going to say that stuff like that but you know i think that this is a i think this is more like a three i think it's 50 50 whether this is gonna because we've heard stories that they've scaled back yeah i mean that's the headline of this is um some of their ai powered plans for health and that's because it's tricky because you don't want to make a promise

29:43right they don't want to be like okay you seem to be walking slower and your heartbeat's going faster maybe you should go to the doctor right it's one thing when it's like afib detection which is like objective it's like you have afib you should definitely go to the doctor but i think i don't know i think that there's a lot and apple is super cautious about this kind of thing that is yeah that is true i'm gonna agree with you on the three it's iffy it's iffy more home screen tools like the ability to undo and redo widget stuff that feels long needed because you sometimes you place a widget on

30:17that home screen it just blows up everything and so yeah maybe an undo redo i think there'll be more home screen tools in general there's all that they always put more home screen tools because it's what 90 of people that's like that's what wwdc is it's like oh cool they made a new way for me to customize and ruin my home screen so we'll say five out of five also create wallet passes there's been a lot of third-party apps that allow you to make a quasi pass in the wallet app whether it was like a gym membership or a loyalty program and if you have a qr code or a picture of it that you can

30:50kind of make this like weird generic pass for it and rumors are this is mark german at bloomberg saying there it's going to be an official thing like you can make wallet passes now from your stuff this feels like yeah five out of five i think this is coming yeah this is like feels like the super low-hanging fruit that they like to talk about because it's like see we did a thing and you're like i don't actually know what you did but thanks so much that's it that's it i think and then there's some mac features and more apple intelligence stuff like organizing safari tabs

31:21and naming tab groups automatically that feels like an easy apple intelligence sure they'll probably do something like that you sure i don't even know what this means but because i don't use safari but sure i can't i still can't believe that uh revamped airpod settings so rather than the like people i guess have complained that the airpod settings are a little convoluted in settings apps they're gonna like rework all that sure settings change pretty often i'm like yeah but they don't usually get better let's just be honest well that's what i'm saying just changing not necessarily we're not saying better yeah we'll do that enhanced autocorrect my wife

31:55still complains about and i just experienced it too autocorrect on the iphone is still struggling if they only do one thing they have to do this steven they have to fix fix the keyboard do you still have like do you experience issues like that sometimes but the number of posts i see on threads about it i don't know if people are just rage baiting which is it's threads so probably but like this seems to be a widespread epidemic be like man the number of people who like are having this problem yeah it's pretty outrageous i'd be embarrassed if i worked for apple i see a lot of

32:30tiktoks not a lot but i've seen some tiktoks too where people just complaining about how they don't like their iphone anymore but it's because they have an iphone 13 i'm like yeah i mean apple doesn't like that one either you should get a new one but they don't want to do that like people are saying they don't want to buy a new phone they just want to keep the phone that they have and it's like okay but you do realize like it's how many years has it been 14 15 16 i mean it's been five years since that phone came out that's pretty long time yeah i mean it probably still works just fine my son is

33:05rocking an 11 pro and it's great the only thing i hate about it is i constantly forget that you can't do the touch the two things to get the et phone home thing to airdrop with a with a 11 pro where you bring the two phones together oh yeah it does airdrop because i don't think it has nfc no it must have it because it has apple pay yeah but it doesn't have the name drop it doesn't have the ultra wideband chip that's what that's what it is i don't know but i mean like i constantly forget that but it still works fine i mean the battery's at like 62 but whatever yeah you know that happens

33:35that happens okay and last couple things then we'll go into more of our personal hopes and dreams ipad os 27 maybe having window refinement which they changed the windowing last dub dub i initially bemoaned the loss of slide over and split view and then they added that back in future ipad os 26 updates well they might do even more more window stuff refining it even more that probably feels like the three minute ipad segment is probably just gonna be that like here's some other window features

34:06and probably nothing else which i'm going to be upset about because i'm wanting a lot of things on the ipad which we're going to talk about in a second but yeah sure i don't know what they're going to do but this is definitely a five out of five because they do some kind of new ipad window thing every year that's the one thing they consistently 100 of the time they're going to just it's it's just going to change it because that way they can change it i will say it'd be nice if they streamlined stage manager versus windowing versus not because i sometimes i wonder like is this stage manager is this just windowing i feel like it's confusing but it does not have to

34:41be confusing just never turn on stage manager yeah but but the windowing i want the windowing and like that's when i tap the control in the control center it just goes to stage manager i think you have to tap and hold and then you can choose like windowing specifically i use the windowing and i don't go anywhere near stage manager but do you ever go into full screen app mode sure you just hit the little red i mean green yeah but there's a difference between that and actual right so leave it turned off here's the don't have to worry about it here's one bug and i don't know if it's the app

35:13or ipad os 26 i use universal control a lot from my mac to my ipad for moving chapter artwork over for this show and moving audio files into ferrite on the ipad i do that every day for like primary tech daily and for some reason ferrite if i'm in windowing mode and i try to drag a file using universal control from my mac to my ipad something weird happens and the ferrite app like pops into some weird shape and i

35:43can't drag a file so i have to go into full screen app mode just to drag a file into ferrite and then i will exit it and so i basically have a shortcut automation where when ferrite opens go into full screen mode and when ferrite closes go into stage manager but i don't like it's anyway it's weird why don't you just import it from iCloud like it's already isn't it already in iCloud way slower i do this every day universal control dragging it over into ferrite way faster doesn't sound like you just described 15 minutes of rigmarole you have to do it's just a shortcut automation right now i just would

36:17love to not have to have that automation so i can keep it in windowing mode but it is it is way faster trust me trust me and i don't know what they're gonna change so last thing i don't know what they're gonna change about mac os but just do something do something design wise some design tweaks that's the rumors are that there's gonna be some design tweaks or whatever do something that's all i'm saying yeah i mean i would prefer they don't do anything not because i think it's great but because the history has not moved in a positive direction listen we're not gonna have alan died

36:49talking about liquid glass this year so do you think we'll see steven lemay but we're still gonna have liquid glass yeah no we're still gonna have liquid glass that's not going away a year later do you think we'll see we'll see steven lemay during the keynote at all sure no because they're not introducing a new interface design but they got to talk about oh yeah that's true i mean we really only seal and die when they do the dynamic island and they do liquid glass like i can't think of another time okay last uh prediction rating before we get to our wishes do you think they will announce

37:20a new app for one of the platforms periodically we get something like the journal app and that gets a big you know the siri app if they do the siri app then yes okay and when they do an app they usually have someone announce it and talk about the design that could be a place where they kind of stick steven lemay not in like a main featured part but they're like you can talk about the design in relation to this app kind of thing maybe uh it's gonna be whoever's in charge of siri all right i'm gonna say we're gonna see steven lemay i'm gonna say yes and you say no we're not gonna see him

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40:04primary technology 10 thanks to nord layer for sponsoring this episode all right so our hopes and dreams for dub dub now there is a couple let me let me go down tomorrow what notion there you wrote an entire article because you're an app developer now about what you would hope for at dub dub i'll share the apple news article so everybody could read it tell us about your hopes and dreams well i just want the here's the tough thing there's this bad like there's this balance i mean arguably wwdc it's a

40:37developer conference but all of none of the things that we just mentioned are developer features all of these rumors are consumer facing features right do we get a new camera app do we see a redesigned thing do we get a new siri app do we whatever all that stuff's fine but that's not really the point of wwdc the point of wwdc should be well it's like at least nominally to explain all of the things that are coming to the thing to the new operating system so developers can either build

41:08apps or tailor their apps for those things so there are two things i would like to see one i would like them to finally figure out this stupid app intense thing right because that is the core promise that they made in 2024 was that there would be a framework and we've already seen whatever mcp all those are like this is this is a problem that can be solved the question is will apple solve it in a way well will they solve it at all will their desire to do it in a very particular way defeat them or will they be

41:42able to figure it out or will they just adopt something else right any of those things are possible but that is what will allow you to to say to dingus hey dingus i know that i had a note in bear from whatever can you just remind me what the name i wrote down was or something like that like that's what you want to be able to do that is the killer feature you can do this in claude you can do it in claude right now do all these other things like whatever it's just you know i so that's i really want to see them figure that i know that there's an argument that like developers may not want to

42:16adopt this because they don't want you to just be able to shout out and be like place my door dash order right like i get it they want you to open the door dash app or whatever like that's fine i make an app i'm happy for this to work why because it makes my app super useful and it makes it more likely that you would store all of your information in it if you could get information out just by like who was at that meeting as a yesterday right either it can find it on the calendar or can find it in like my app okay what were the three things that i said i was going to do from that meeting like i just want you to be able to talk to siri and get all that information out of

42:48the app that to me is the promise so that's one i want to see them figure that out and then the second one is i want them to make the private cloud compute version of foundation models so the good version available via api to developers because right now the only apple intelligence thing that developers can use is on device and it ain't great i mean for my app i've been able to tailor it in a way that it what it is doing it's mostly capable of doing summarizing pulling out to do's except the

43:22context window on the on device apple intelligence model is like 4 000 tokens right whatever it's like a very very small window yeah so i have to build into the pro plan version allow open ai so it was really important to me to be able to have a privacy story which was all this stuff happens on device i don't own any servers i don't have anything to do with any of this i'm not storing your data it's all in cloud kit i'm not processing anything i'm not doing any of that stuff but the apple intelligence model is too small so i am going to make it possible for you to just it's just one one option

43:57allow open ai which all that means is if the model if it's if your note is too big for apple intelligence to handle it it'll just you don't have to sign into open ai it just does it in the background it doesn't remember any information it's just doing that processing for you there's no reason that that shouldn't just be gemini on a private cloud computer compute server somewhere and make that available to a developer that will change that will change what we can see in small apps in a way that we have not seen on the iphone in a long time because right now you have to figure

44:32like i had to build a cloudflare co-worker worker and i had to get secret keys and i had to build all these things and i had to do it all that's fine i figured it all out but man it would be so much easier if i could just be like if small do on device if not send a private cloud compute yes and i think we had several people reach out and developers wanting something like that you know similar building that into to ios 27 so we'll see um and charge for it this is a totally reasonable thing to charge

45:02for did you hear that there's a rumor that they may charge for the siri app intense thing to expose your app to siri you may have to pay over time they have not come i guess the report is they have not committed to not charging but listen this is apple apple is literally literally never going to commit to not charging you for something even if they're never going to charge you for something they're not going to commit to not doing it they're keeping their options open people right i mean that's that sounds strange but anyway you remember apple used to charge for software updates you used to have to

45:32buy os 10 upgrades 120 dollars 120 little lion or whatever little box from the apple store i think i still have my snow lip comp usa i've been to comp usa and bought several updates there you go all right so those are those are great suggestions so you can i now have a rather lengthy list of my desires and you can agree or poo poo any of these but for ipad os and also ios usually these kinds of features go to both but i'm hoping for some kind of api for clipboard managers and text expander

46:02expansion type apps but using the built-in keyboard like i don't want to use a third-party keyboard just for features like text expander it's not a good experience i'm never going to switch keyboards and i've hacked a shortcut to kind of be a clipboard manager for me i shared it in my action button video where if i have if i hit copy on my iphone i hit my action button i run this shortcut i can save whatever's on my clipboard to a data jar and then i can do the same thing and then retrieve anything from that data jar list and put it back on my clipboard so i kind of like this quasi clipboard

46:35manager but it's a pain in the butt i would love for there to be just a built-in clipboard manager which they brought it to mac os last year for the first time it was the first time apple had a first party clipboard manager on the mac built right in spotlight and there's actually been a few times where i'm on my ipad and i will command space to do spotlight and i'll do command space 4 to try and get to my clipboard and i have to remember oh that's not here on the ipad so i am hopeful that we'll see some kind of clipboard manager on the ipad maybe even the iphone and also on the ipad that control

47:06center use more of the screen i don't need a tiny little control center like the ipad is a huge screen let at least double even if you don't want to go full screen on that control center for ipad at least make it a little bigger like what like two-thirds of the screen or something do you want either of those things i mean i think clipboard manager is great everybody should love a clipboard manager yeah i mean i don't think that i have ever felt like i was missing that on my iphone but it's probably just because i've conditioned myself to not anticipate that capability i also realized

47:40that more often than not i'm just kind of copy things from my mac to my phone yeah universal clipboard's great and there's a clipboard manager on my mac so i essentially i get a clipboard manager on my iphone for free it's just a little bit less ideal see one of the things i do all the time is i will post something to a social media app but then i have a link that i want to share but i do it in two steps because either i'm not going to post the link directly in the post on threads because they're going to down algorithm that post so i'll have the post on my clipboard and then maybe i'll

48:15cross post it to other platforms and then i need to get the url and i have to you know sometimes i do it out of order this also a lot of times with instagram reels i'll post a reel with a caption but then i need to set up a mini chat automation with a url and then i need to go to tiktok and do the same thing and so i'd love to just have a clipboard manager right just because you have it all there and i could just go back and copy whatever so i'm hoping for that for the text expander though do you just do you not use the text replacement built into the keyboard i use the text replacement but text expander is so much more than just that like i have text snippets that insert the current date

48:46or adjust the date and insert that so for top five tech it's my weekly show that comes out every friday uh right which is like a top 60 podcast already it was yeah that's obviously thanks everybody yeah uh but yeah please leave a five-star interview because i don't know apparently somebody didn't like it but anyway uh it's a four-minute podcast how do you not like it it's a fake podcast that's why it's a fake podcast that's right but no text expander i like for top five tech i have a little snippet where when i title my bear note i title the campaign name where i send the email out that i do semi colon tft for top five tech and it expands to say top

49:22five tech spelled out line separator and then today or friday's date so it adjusts the date so if i'm doing it on thursday it'll still be friday's date things like that you can't do that with text replacements you can't do those you can't have like the clipboard which i've done i do this a lot too with text expander where whatever's on my clipboard insert it into this text string and then expand that whole string and that's something that text replacements can't do so i want that kind of stuff like let text expander just be there behind the scenes like it is on my mac

49:52on my ipad and iphone that's probably less likely to happen but i want it yeah that's you know all right mail i know you don't use the stock mail app but i do and this is from ogenio on x their requests are snooze for messages that's great uh great not just for mail but i think for messages too like i need to keep this message unread but i don't want to see the badge for the next eight hours can i snooze this text message that would be amazing i mean we have scheduled messages now so maybe we could do that also when a user is sharing their location this

50:25is from ogenio show time zone in imessage that's a pretty cool feature i had not thought of that and the mail i've been going about this a long time mail does not have a good snooze feature they have the remind me feature which doesn't take the message out of your inbox it literally just oh sorry i'm gonna leave it in it but it actually all it does is put like a little reminder so for whenever you said remind me it sends you a notification about that mail at a certain time of day but actual snooze like in every other email app it removes the message from your inbox and then

50:59makes it reappear at the time that you're snoozing too i want that still in stock mail and i use same later folders for this which works great in stock mail but you use spark which isn't so you just have that spark is amazing yeah spark yeah i know it's great it's great it's great also more of shortcuts actions for mail and uh automation triggers for mail we could uh get into the i'm talking about shortcuts yeah let's talk about that i have a ton of shortcuts requests i'm not gonna go i'm not gonna go through it all matthew cassinelli shortcuts guru i learned so much from him he

51:30requested folder groups in shortcuts or tags which is a great idea because guys like matthew and i have tons of shortcuts folders and i'd love to be able to group those folders in certain ways so i could put like podcasts and i could put my primary tech mac power users and top five tech shortcuts folders in a folder or tag them in a certain way so that's a great suggestion there's also a bunch of different triggers that i'm hoping for we've not had new automation triggers in a long time things like when a phone call comes in do this so i would love phone call automation trigger

52:01weather triggers so rather than have to set up a bunch of if statements just say like when the temperature rises above this degree do this automation weather triggers repeat hourly triggers i get a lot of requests from i want this to run every hour but in shortcuts right now you have to set it up every hour you have to say run at 8 a.m daily run at 9 a.m daily run at 10 a.m daily automation repeats to go every hour i actually had someone in my shortcuts community say they want a shortcut to run every five minutes which sounds wild but it's because they wanted to put information

52:35in an apple note so they have a report at the end of the day of some current status on their phone that makes a ton of sense so repeating automations more than just daily would be great i have a bunch of home kit sensor requests like door left open automations let me be rather than do an if statement and weight commands and shortcuts let me just set a notification for if this door is left open better reminders actions and this is a side note i'm playing around with craft you ever played around with craft jason yeah everybody does everybody goes through that phase you do obsidian

53:09then you do craft then you go back to notes for a while then you try notion then you go back to notes for a while and then you end up at contextly and it's great i was wondering where you're gonna land on that makes sense i'm uh i i've tried craft craft in the past and this is c-r-a-f-t not the cheese not the k but craft has come a long way i jumped in there because someone asked for a craft shortcut and i was like wow this design is really nice right now and it feels very native and it works great on the iphone and they added kanban view boards which is how i do my video stuff and you're the one

53:41telling me you can't believe that my video project management is in reminders i'm like well craft might be a good deal and so i wanted to try to move all my reminders to craft and just see like how that could go but claude can't talk to reminders natively there's no connector for apple reminders and so what i did jason yesterday sitting on my patio did you see federico faticci released rem c t l yeah definitely not this is he built a cli for claude and open ai to talk to apple reminders

54:19and so i will put the article in the show notes he's federico faticci's is building wild stuff over there now he just he released shortcuts playground then last week he just released rem c t l but if you install this and get it running it allows claude or open ai to do all the reminders things create view edit change it does it all i got this working i could not tell you how to repeat the process because i have no idea what i did i just kept asking claude code can you make it work

54:52what do i need to do like tell me what to try and to claude's credit that's all you have to do and it will walk you through it and eventually it was working and then i asked claude code okay buddy move all my reminders from my video projects list into craft in the same kanban style using the same column names can you do that and it said i got it bro not verbatim but basically and then it just did it jason and this one it amazed me two i'm gonna be checking into craft now because i was also building

55:26shortcuts using their api and it's pretty easy and great and c or three i forget which i did it did make me realize like the switching cost to try a new productivity app is much lower now than it has been because you can ask claude or whoever just move all my stuff and make it look like it does here and it can just do it and then you can try using a different app for a little while and then when you want to go back or try something else you could be like now make it look like this is the updated

55:57version make it look like that and i'm like you can there's no more no more are the days where you have to manually build your system in another app and just to try it like you can just ask ai to do it i thought that was cool yeah counterpoint that friction was a good thing because it stops people from just having cruft everywhere and no i mean this sincerely first of all i'm excited for you thank you craft wasn't for me but not because it's bad just because what i'm about to say i am very easily tempted to try all of the things yeah and i do have to try lots of things because in order for

56:32me to like write about something i have to spend some time with it right but the fact that there's so much friction involved i think is actually a good thing because it's like do you have a system i mean in all fairness if reminders works for you i think that that's an abomination i think that's insane but i think you should stick with it because it is such a critical piece of your workflow right it is so important to what you do every day and it's not just what you do every day because you also make coffee every day but that is not like how you feed your children sure it might be how you work yourself

57:04up to do the stuff that feeds your children it's important listen my kids joke that i turn coffee i turn uh coffee into words and i turn words into money and then we spend most of the money on coffee so it's just a cycle but but but what in in reality most people who are enthusiasts and like to tinker spend so much time and energy trying to try out a new system yeah when in reality it might be cool and fun but i think that friction was good because there was a there was a barrier it was like that was

57:37built into how much better the new thing had to be to make it worth actually switching and now if you can just switch willy-nilly back and forth like how much time do people spend doing that and i'm just no this is what i mean this is why i still i mean the only reason i made a new notes app is because there was an actual gap in whole and what i was doing right and i don't know i just that's my only the friction was good that's all i'm saying i'm inclined to agree like it would have taken an entire weekend before if you wanted to switch your productivity or project management app and now it'll just take

58:10like 15 minutes and maybe that lack of friction is not great but it's going to get me to try craft again so sure that's great for them i guess but in the in that same vein this was another post on social media this was rowan saying shortcut actions for scheduling messages great suggestion so you can schedule messages now but you can't do it through shortcuts it'd be great to schedule them through shortcuts automation triggers for reminders and calendar items coming due this is a huge one would love this the calendar items is is big because so many times people have asked me for a shortcut that

58:44will activate a focus mode during a calendar event and while you can sometimes you see the suggestion on the lock screen and your iphone will proactively say activate focus mode now people want to do it automatically and not have to think about it and in order to do that right now with i was 26 you have to create an automation that runs every hour that checks for an event on your calendar and if there's an event activate a focus mode and turn it off after that event is over it would be great to just have an automation trigger to say when a calendar event starts on these calendars do this maybe it's

59:20activate a focus mode maybe it's start a voice memo maybe it's whatever like that would be great and also rowan says shortcuts actions for find my i want to ping my airpods from my watch that's a great suggestion too there's not really any find my actions and shortcuts right now for people or items and that would be great so great recommendations there also this is from in man oh he's going on to vision pro i'm just going to run down some of my other shortcuts ones and then we'll talk about vision pro do you still use it every day every day i've used already already today you did that's

59:52amazing slash shortcuts actions rapid fire currently playing media i love to be able to discover like is a podcast playing is a youtube video playing what app is playing audio and then be able to do if statements based on what media is currently playing that would be nice the oh and apple tv like when apple tv turns on do this you you can set up automations to turn on apple tv in shortcuts and automations but you can't make an apple tv turning on as a trigger and that'd be great because then i could just hit the apple tv remote to wake my apple tv and it runs like my movie scene and just

1:00:26everything you know run a home kit scene or whatever so there's that i would also love password this is now moving out of shortcuts but password app categories so the passwords app in iowa's 26 to be able to put like bank accounts software licenses i would love to be able to keep all that there like i do in one password and i think you'll agree on this screen time just fix screen time yes just 100 if you don't say anything else the rest of this time 100 that but can't you why don't you just use secure notes for those things no it's not you can lock no it's not the same but it is the that's

1:01:00that's the thing but like the password app makes it easy to copy and paste specific fields like one tap copy your password copy your email or autofill information i would love for that to be built into the the passwords app all right because i do that a lot i would let me know what you think of this i would love a standalone screen time app where you can manage your kids requests the screen time settings and just all the screen time information because there's so much buried in that one settings pane i feel like it deserves its own app and then notifications can come through screen time app

1:01:33rather than in dumb message conversations yeah that by the way is the worst thing that they've done right we'll say the best thing that they've done is the notification you get when your child uses a screen time password and you didn't even know that they had figured it out that is an excellent excellent point best thing they've done although it to me is a little bit like they put the ai on the videos and youtube it's like no we're done we told you we don't actually have to fix this we just let you know that it's even more broken yeah but but standalone screen time app what do you think about that you think that's a good idea i do worry about the idea this philosophy that everything

1:02:05needs to be in a standalone app sure but like screen time specifically because there's so much Siri we got a passwords app we got like this there is a little bit of there is a little bit of bloat yeah it's like why you got to pre-install this bloat on my device when you hand it to me but the screen time app there's so much going on there same thing's true with passwords same but then also like it requires notifications and approvals and interaction and like to be able to in a focus

1:02:39mode say you know what i don't want to get screen time requests right now like i want to when i'm filming this video not see a request for plex for one for once i want to go through a video recording and not see your request you know what i mean yeah i mean as a parent who just has mostly given up and said whatever children just like let me know if you get lost out there on the internet no i'm just kidding i i agree with you i get i get that sentiment though totally get it mac os i just want to point out last year one of my big requests last year was mac os shortcuts automations and we did get that

1:03:12which is wonderful i would also like to see this is not mac os specific but i cloud slash home kit like just add all the home kit secure video features like up to 4k cameras in i cloud secure home kit secure video pan and tilt controls give us a web interface for seeing recordings from our home kit secure video we need all of that it's been i've been asking you for literally literally years because i've been asking for it since home kit insider days and we're still not there so it's

1:03:46at least five plus years hopefully we see that also better home pod management would be nice all of that but let's talk about vision os because you use it every day this request came in from listener and viewer in man 33x jason and i may be the only ones that want continued support for vision os no i want to see it too new environments new content sports for vision pro which i feel like apple's doing a little bit more of i would love to see more environments i think i mentioned that last year last year i wanted a youtube app and we did get that eventually but more immersive content yeah

1:04:19what would you like to see i would like environments to be portable like i want to be able to read my mail and in avengers tower oh yeah sure which is an environment in the disney plus app yes yes but i want them i want developers to just because wouldn't it be amazing if you could just have an app like think about that like somebody could just make an app with a bunch of amazing environments and you could be like doing your slack that would be nice in times square or whatever you like i just i don't know also i want them to do more of what you and i

1:04:51talked about like i want there to be worlds you can explore yeah i don't know how you do that because moving is complicated like you can't just be walking around your living room and then you break your shin because you tried to walk use a controller you know like yeah there's a little bit of a motion sickness that happens there when you're in an immersive thing and in and you uh it's like my kid can't play minecraft in the car because bad things happen well you know you had a double motion or whatever so but that would be cool that would be cool and i've they have not launched they did jupiter last year that was the one new environment i feel like and it'd be nice if they

1:05:24added way more i just think there is this a bit when you are able to take someone and put them in a different place there is so much you could do with that and i just feel like we haven't gotten to that did you listen to adam listen gore on the talk show recently just like look that guy i don't know he is way more into the vision pro than i am like he's very bullish he thinks this is amazing and i agree that it's amazing i just don't think anyone else is going to think it's amazing especially not at that price and it's just so heavy yeah but like they get solved the heavy by

1:05:58just getting rid of the front eyeballs and make it out of plastic just that's what i'm saying make it out of plastic and get rid of those front eyeballs guess what i never ever do steven wear my vision pro in a place where the eyeballs are necessary never you never wore it on a plane you could have the flight attendant looking at your googly eyes steven i have actually talked to flight attendants recently oh i have not met a flight attendant who has seen someone on a plane the only people who wear them on planes are youtubers for the views and you jason it could be you tonight you're flying i'm not a youtuber are you taking it tonight no first of all i'm only

1:06:33going for 48 hours so when am i going to do it more time you you're one of the few people who are like i'm going to travel internationally but for 48 hours i'm going to monaco i'm going to get there tomorrow and i'm going to fly home thursday that's wild i got a kid graduating i don't know you got to be there for that no i know it's just it's wild all right i'm going to rapid fire i said that before but i'm going to do that now for all of our other listener requests dan mill said attach files to reminders 100 and deep link support this is huge if you want to do shortcuts and you try to do

1:07:03more productivity stuff there are links to things like an apple note and a reminder and apple obscures those it is so hard to get those and you know they exist because you can drag a note into a reminder or vice versa and there'll be like a little icon there that then you can tap and it'll bring you to the other piece of content but there's no way to like right click and say give me the deep link to this note because if you could do that and if they put it in shortcuts actions then you could do all kinds of amazing things like i want to create a new video project so create a new reminder here

1:07:37create an apple note tied to that reminder add the you know you could do a whole bunch of stuff so deep linking huge huge deal recommend i'm also going to link this from uh listener tech by paz he had a great article about some of his wishes he wants more of a snow leopard year which i do agree we do need a lot of like stability bug fix improvements things like that so hopefully we'll see that and no i don't want to continue on instagram greg c.tech on threads said home screen he wants the ability to remove app

1:08:10names without making them bigger totally agree more control over home screen sizing an app layout also agree if you take if you make large app icons on the pro max phone and you remove the search little box that appears on the home screen there is a grand canyon space between the bottom apps and your dock so 100 it would be great to to have more options there be able to change the dock based on focus modes i love that idea because the dock is persistent no matter how many different focus modes and home screens you make it would be nice to change those and of course more shortcuts actions 100 so that'd be

1:08:43fun ryan off on blue sky said ability to hide the dock on ios 27 more widget sizes that would be cool even like a one by one widget kind of like a shortcuts uh app icon transparent widget backgrounds with no borders there's you have to get do like hacky stuff to kind of achieve that right now lower app store commissions sorry ryan there's no way no we're gonna get lower uh after commissions but ryan also said he sent me a dm on threads and he would love to be able to code an app on iphone or ipad which

1:09:17we talked about after google io like google ai studio they're launching that app for both android and iphone so you can vibe code apps on the device you're building it for it would be nice to see that come to the apple devices as well yeah okay so i don't know i mean you don't think so that i don't really the ipad sure because it's in theory powerful enough to do that yeah but i don't i think i'm trying to think of what the benefit of that is because like the iphone is not a great platform for coding apps i guess maybe because then you could run them on device without having to do the weird

1:09:51physical connection or uploading that them to app store connect just to download it on your phone like i get that that is annoying and takes a while there's that but also if you're doing it more with an agent than manually if you maybe you're using the app that you're building and you're testing it and you come across a bug to be able to sweep you know swipe over to xcode mobile or whatever i mean there is xcode cloud yeah but to be able to it's the same thing on device well i'm saying you can go to x yeah i mean what my point is for that use case there is a solution but it would be nice to just go

1:10:25over to the app on your phone type in the bug fix prompt to whatever ai chatbot building your app and then reinstall the app right and fix the bug immediately basically and nothing's going to be immediately because well no jason agreed if you're watching you can see jason kind of agree in his head but he didn't want to say it i saw that happen see exactly exactly all right what do you want to do that was our hopes and dreams that was our listener hopes and dreams there was this journalist german talking about what's coming in 2027 we can definitely hold that that's we have a year and a

1:10:57half before that's going to happen let's hold that and so for personal tech i already talked about rem ctl what the federico vitici claude thing so tell me you said claude saved the day yeah well it did i mean it's done multiple things for me but this might be my favorite so i for a long time tried to pay my daughter to do a job okay that's how i needed someone taking no i needed something done and she is a very busy very very very busy so like she was never going to be able to work at chick-fil-a right like she just she played soccer she just does too many things she's playing multiple sports

1:11:29whatever so i was like i have a job that would be so perfect for you because i have this thing that i'm terrible at but i would like done which is i use notion and we've talked about this last week i keep all of my articles in there and typically when i am there's a couple reasons for this there was a time when i had a research assistant so i would create something in there i would put in description then she would do the research for me she'd give it all to me and then i would start writing the article and it was all great so i would i put ideas into notion i have a kanban board of things i want to work out all that kind of stuff but what usually happens is i just accumulate the

1:12:05ideas and then i don't have i'll write the article and publish it but like going back to notion to do all that stuff is just kind of obnoxious and so i was like listen i haven't i have not updated notion with published links traffic all the stuff in like 18 months madison who's my oldest daughter i'm like can can i pay you you can just do this whenever like spend two hours a week doing like whatever i'll pay you 20 bucks an hour this is the best gig you're gonna get you got a laptop you can just do it whenever you have time and i will just hand you a fistful of money and i just need the i would just and it's like super easy like right i just need you to like oh title go to my

1:12:40author page find the thing it was never gonna happen and now she's graduating and she's moving out so that idea like did not come to fruition and then i was like hang on you and i talked about like claude all this stuff i said i so i just asked i i just asked claude a question i said and this is an important this is a pro tip just all of you the first thing you should do anytime you want to get started with claude on anything is say i have a question i don't want you to do anything yet

1:13:12i just want to know if you can and if so tell me how that's an important thing to start because otherwise you ask claude to do something and it just starts doing stuff i'm like i want to know what you're going to do first yeah so i asked it's like yes i can do this here's how it would work and here's what i need for you i can visit your author page and i can just collect every article link and i can just match them up with your database entries and if there's one that's not in notion which there was like 130 that were not in notion i can just create the create it for you i will look at the schema in notion i will do the best to match it i might have some questions in the

1:13:44so like let me know and uh it did the whole thing and it probably imported 175 no it probably imported like 275 articles over the last like 16 months that were not even that i had never even put in notion because that's how bad i am at database management and so uh so now i have this full database that is completely accurate back to like actually at this point it's back accurate back to 2024 it was mostly accurate before that i don't care but notion has pretty decent ai but because

1:14:19it's now connected i can just ask claude hey what did i have to say about this or have i written about the time that tim cook did this or have i like that one time when musk and uh zuckerberg were going to fight did i write an article about that or did i only think about it and it'll be like well you thought about it and here was the research that you have and they haven't talked about it in a while i don't think you really want to write about this you know what i mean like i can just it's it was amazing that is i'm getting to a place where there's been so many benefits of connecting claude to the

1:14:50different things i just i approve all the things like every time it says oh yeah i could do this but i need permission i was like no problem buddy it's like if i could i would just give you blanket permission i trust you more than my children when i was clearly clearly right when i was doing the rem ctl from vatici and setting it up it was like i claude was saying i i need i can do this but i think i need full disk access i don't think it said i think it said i need full disk because i was like no problem just put just tell me what do you need we're going to put it let me hand you my

1:15:22disk and put it in your pocket you can have the whole thing you need my password you need my iCloud password two-factor code whatever you want let's just do it it's just so once you fall down the rabbit hole it is pretty amazing just how much can be done and i have found if you give it browser i'm really close so one of the things i share videos about shortcuts on instagram and tiktok and i want to send a link to people and this is why i might end up paying better the 50 a month or whatever so i can actually put a link on a reel we'll have to see i know it's ridiculous but right

1:15:56now i use the many chat service which i'm paying 15 a month anyway for that so you know the many chat service someone comments a word and the many chat app automatically replies to their comment and dms them a link it works fine it is how every creator on instagram gets links to people how they do it tiktok does not allow this many chat does not work with tiktok in that way you can't comment on a tiktok and many chat automatically reply and dm you a link it just doesn't have that

1:16:27feature and the problem is i am not going to make two versions of every video and so in the video i say comment shortcut and i'll send you a link and then immediately after i say if you're on tiktok i put the link in the comments and here's how to get it jason just wild guess do you think even after i say that in the video do people still comment shortcut on tiktok of course of course five out of five and people people get upset because they're like i commented shortcut and

1:16:58you didn't send it to me and i said well if you if you listen to the words i say like if you can listen to the end of the tiktok there were more words there were more words i said if you're on tiktok do this not that and but i'm not gonna make two videos so i've thought about telling claude doing a scheduled task which you can do so i could tell claude to do this every hour maybe just once a day and just say go to my latest tiktok i post the link in the comments so the link that claude needs

1:17:28could be right there and say claude if there's a link there's a shortcut link that i've posted in the comments take that link and just reply to every comment that says shortcut with that link and i'm pretty sure it will be able to do that and i'm very close to just doing it and seeing what happens i'm not like i don't care enough about the tiktok account i think it's fine i think it'll be fine but i'm also i'm also very close to this is something david sparks does having claude do like customer service type tasks for his membership stuff so if someone needs to change their email or

1:18:03like reset their password he has his robot do it he has claude do it and like claude will use the browser go in the admin side of his website click around to members change their settings and he has it on a monitor off to the side and he does like keep an eye on it as it's working but i i'm i'm not there yet but i'm very close i'm very close to letting it do that it was really funny when it when i had to do this it came back i was like how many articles do you want me to do

1:18:33your archives huge do you want me to just run a test or do you want me to do it all i mean that's a lot i'm like dude shut up you're a robot just do it like i don't care but then it it did it opened a browser tab in brave yes and this is the fit my favorite part it goes so i've i've run into a problem it seems like after a certain number of articles the new articles are not available to me because there's a paywall hang on let me just see if i can strip the exact json from the web page

1:19:09and it did it it just like pulled all the data directly from the json you know what just kidding i i got it it's like it's like this seems to be a problem but if you want me to just hack your articles i'm happy to do that instead and it just did it but it did it opened it up and you could if i would have clicked over to that tab and brave like i didn't start this task in brave right i started in co-work and it just opened a tab and just did its little thing yeah and it's just amazing it is amazing still tiny bit scary but mostly amazing but the benefits of this also whatever leak

1:19:46mine your train might train on it you're doing it anyway it's public it's like all this stuff is published like i don't whatever i do do you wish that uh anthropic would make a browser itself no because the the cloud extension is just so good the cloud extension is very good i i so i ordered the other thing cloud saved the day i ordered so we have a barista pro one of the breville things and a rock went through the grinder and it didn't so it's so it still grinds that's not an uncommon thing

1:20:17when you're buying like beans they're their thing because when they sift them out like you could have a rock that's roughly the same weight or the same size and anyway and this has happened twice now but the second time it it will no longer eject grounds it'll grind them they just accumulate in the grinder so so i ordered the replacement parts from like one of those websites where you can do that and if they're backordered and they just never shipped and so i opened my order status in brave and also a backorder and i just opened the little cloud thing and i say hey here's the deal this

1:20:47stuff is never shipped could you just find it for me and if you find it will you just tell me where so i can i didn't tell it to buy it for me i don't know if it would have done that or not but i was like can you just find this for me and it just said here's where you can get this one it's in stock it'll ship and be here by this date here's where you can get this one you can be in stock and you can ship by this day and i just did it that's the thing that's the and i had to buy something for my fridge like the ice tray or whatever like the ice maker i say hey i take a picture of the model like the sticker inside with the model i say i need i need a replacement something just fine just finds it just finds it listen we're gonna it's a fun time scary a little bit scary sometimes but it's a fun

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