Time for the the annual Craig Federighi show, featuring the newest versions of Apple software. Now with invasive, shoehorned AI to boot!

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Takeaways

• Vision Pro gains some new quality of life fixes to sell its empty existence.
• In a change 17 years too late, the iPhone allows users to move icons wherever they want and color their icons similar to Android’s Material You.
• The Control Center experience is overhauled, adding more pages and widget support.
• The iOS 18 Beta is very buggy…
• Apps can be locked and password protected. It’s unclear how this works.
• A new permission to limit the networks apps can detect was added.
• macOS Sequoia exists.
• The Mail app curbs the endless notification spam and organizes all email into categories, similar to Gmail or Outlook.
• Apple Pay now works over NFC, but is gated to newer iPhones with NFC support and copies Google Pay.
• Apple TVs now adjust dialogue and action volume to separate audio tracks, allowing Apple studios to be more lazy with their sound editing once everybody knows about this feature.
• Apple TV copies Amazon Prime Video and now shows who plays which character in a popup.
• On a video call, you can now draw on your screen and share it to relay help to your poor friends and family.
• iPad gets the Calculator app, 14 years too late.
• Apple Notes now learns off your handwriting, solves math problems, and generates AI images.
• Your iPhone now gets a VNC server that can be accessed from a Mac with the same Apple ID.
• Shareplay gains the ability to sync newer file formats like videos or images.
• macOS gets window snapping, at least 15 years after Windows and Linux.
• Reader Mode on Safari now adjusts the page to fit elements of the page better. Too bad Firefox is a better browser.
• Photos now gains a Magic Eraser in everything but name.
• Who wanted AI organized slideshows of photos? Nobody?
• Apple now integrates ChatGPT and its onboard NPU for various meaningless things across Siri, Mail, iWork, and other Apple programs.
• ChatGPT is segmented into the free version for everyone that’s “private” and the not so private paid OpenAI subscription.
• Apple won’t invade your privacy to train off your data. They promised…

Referenced

• Original Event (YouTube)
• While Microsoft has not announced they gave up, the moneypit of VR headsets caused headaches and nausea for the US military with no discernible benefit.
• The most private and secure way to use Android: GrapheneOS
• The late Queen of England made the mistake of wearing a plain, green dress to a press conference.
• The footage on the Queen at 8:04 is from the live concert DVD of 5-toubun no Hanayome (五等分の花嫁, or The Quintessential Quintuplets). The woman singing is the voice actress for Itsuki, Minase Inori, singing トクベツなひと ～Lesson Five～ (don’t know what it is in English, sorry).
• The scene shown at 8:07 is from Boku no Kokoro no Yaiba Yatsu (僕の心のヤバイやつ or The Dangers in My Heart) Episode 2
• Learn how parents stalk their children on iPhones with FindMy and Family Sharing.
• The quote “That way people know you have one.” comes from The Onion’s video “Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard” at 1:48
• OpenAI’s demo of GPT-4o and also used the prompt of making up a bedtime story.
• Block Apple-Extended from visting your website; Apple uses it to train off your data.
• Everything Bing Chat got wrong in its first demo, including the recommedation of a gay bar on a visit to Mexico City.
• The application firewall Little Snitch, which is capable of blocking stock Apple applications and processes.
• The line “[I] am the captain now” comes from the movie Captain Phillips (2013)
• In “Why Big Tech Won’t Give You Pepe Emotes,” the anime girl with a bikini is Marin from Sono Bique Doll wa Koi wo Suru (その着せ替え人形は恋をする or My Dress Up Darling) Episode 2.
• In “Why Big Tech Won’t Give You Pepe Emotes,” the documentary mentioned is Feels Good Man (2020). I made a mistake; it’s not on Netflix.
• In “Why Big Tech Won’t Give You Pepe Emotes,” the artist of Pepe, Matt Furie, started various court cases to DMCA claim hateful uses of his work.

Track Listing

• The song for the Craig Federighi strip show is the Chemical Brothers - The Weight
• The song for Craig Federighi’s stunt double doing parkour is NOISY - ALLIGATOR.
• Song for the post-event discussion is Jane & The Boy - Starry Eyed (Instrumental)
• Outro: Khaim - Neon Lamp