28: Down Deep Below the Surface
Posted on Monday, Jul 13, 2020
Part II of the WWDC 2020 extravaganza!
Show Notes
Topics:
- WWDC 2020
- Keynote
- AirPods - Craig & Mary-Ann Ionascu (Senior Engineer, AirPods Firmware)
- EVEN MORE MAGIKS TO AIRPODZ!!?
- Automatic switching
- AirPods will switch all over the place
- Spatial audio (AirPods Pro)
- watchOS - Kevin Lynch (VP, Technology)
- Damn, Apple has a nice health center
- Complications
- Multiple complications per app
- Vic needs glo-baby 🤨
- New Chronograph face
- New way to reconfigure faces
- SwiftUI complications
- Faces
- Face-sharing (sounds creepy)
- Curated faces from App Store, friends & family
- Offers download of apps you don’t have on shared faces
- Devs can offer pre-configured faces from apps
- Maps
- Cycling directions
- Fitness - Julz Arney (Senior Manager, Fitness Technologies)
- Dance workout
- Finally Vic can get fit again
- Core training
- Strength training
- Cool-downs
- Activity app is redesigned for workout data and renamed to Fitness
- Kevin can’t dance
- Dance workout
- Sleep - Vera Carr (Manager, Health Software Engineering)
- Sleep duration goal
- When to wake up
- Getting to bed on time
- Wind Down
Vic will never use this😒- A calm lock screen experience
- Shortcuts to sing to you like your mommy did
- Sleep mode automatically dims the screen (auto-theater mode)
- Alarm, audible or taptic
- Uses breath and movement info
- Health app tracks sleep over time
- Sleep duration goal
- Hand washing (Apple Wash) - Kevin
- Privacy and transparency - Craig, Katie Skinner (Manager, User Privacy Software) & Erik NeuenSchwander (Director, User Privacy)
- Across all products
- Sign In with Apple
- Can upgrade accounts to Sign In With Apple
- Location data transparency
- Camera and recording indications
- Safari tracking blockers & controls
- Sites have to ask
- Apps
- Apps have to show what type of data they track
- Self-reporting model
- App tracking practices will be shown on app pages in the App Store
- Home - Craig & Yah Cason (Senior Engineer, HomeKit Software)
- Ease of use
- Open sourced HomeKit to make it easy to build devices
- Tap or scan to set up an accessory
- Home app will suggest automations for new accessories
- New status of accessories that most need attention
- Lights
- Adaptive lighting - right color for the right time
- Cameras
- Define activity zones
- Can limit motion alert areas
- Facial recognition
- HomePod can announce who’s at the door
- Cameras can go onto Apple TV quickly
- tvOS - Cindy Lin (Director, Program Management for Media Products Engineering)
- PiP across tv
- Better AirPlay to TV
- Foundation on Apple TV+
- macOS Big Sur - Craig
- The Crack Marketing team 😂
- Entirely new design - Alan Dye (Vice President, Human Interface)
- Start Up Chime is back and other new sounds
- SF Symbols comes to mac
- Many elements of iOS design come to the Mac
- Translucency
- Depth
- Shading
- Reduced visual complexity (Overly Minimalist???)
- Corner Radius
- Buttons and Controls
- Control Center comes to the mac
- Unified Notification and Widget view
- iOS 14 style Widgets
- All new Mac Icons & Dock
- More Translucent menu bar
- Redesigned System Apps - Craig
- Finder
- Photos
- Calendar
- Notes
- Podcasts
- Music
- iWork
- Messages Catalyst App
- Finally will have feature parity with iOS
- effects
- memoji
- new photo picker
- pinned conversations and iOS group features
- Maps Catalyst App
- Catalyst Updates
- Full Screen
- New menu and keyboard api
- New UI Controls
- Switches
- Pickers
- Check Boxes
- Multiple Resizable Windows
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Safari - Craig & Beth Dakin (Manager, Safari Software Engineering)
- Continues to lead the pack in performance and efficiency
- More Privacy
- Privacy Report
- Checks for compromised passwords
- Web Extensions API support
- Extension Category in MAS
- Better control of extensions privileges
- Customizable Start page
- New look for tabs
- Built in translation
- Apple Silicon for Mac - Tim
- Johny Srouji is under water, according to Tim Cook
- Apple SoC design summary - Johny Srouji (SVP, Hardware Technologies)
- Apple has been doing custom silicon for over a decade
- A4 in 2010 to A13 in 2019
- iPad was A5X to A12X (and Z)
- 1000x GPU performance improvement in 10 years
- Apple has shipped 2 billion SoCs in 10 years.
- Srouji claims Apple Silicon will bring a whole new level of power to the Mac, considering both performance and power
- Better performance, lower power
- Custom technologies just for Mac - power management, Secure Enclave, high performance GPU, neural engine & ML accelerators
- SoCs specifically for the Mac, common architecture across product lines
- This guy keeps bouncing his hands up and down while talking. Does emphasizing points with hand waving mean anything if you do it after every word?
- Native apps - Craig
- Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro are native now.
- Xcode is ready to compile Mac apps to Apple Silicon.
- Universal 2 - universal binary that works on Intel and Apple Silicon
- Microsoft and Adobe are working on their apps
- Craig called Microsoft his friends
- Craig shows off Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. He shows off some Metal 3d animations
- LR and PS native on Apple Silicon
- Apple promises quick and easy recompilation, of course
- Rosetta 2 **- Andreas Wendker (VP, Tools & Frameworks Engineering)
- Automatically translates apps at install time or at first run time, or dynamic translation for JIT apps
- Virtualization (docker, Linux)
- Rosetta 2 performance demos
- Maya
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Linux VM in Parallels
- iPhone and iPad apps run natively & unmodified on ARM Mac “Most apps will just work” (little vague there)
- Quickstart program - Craig & Tim
- Documentation & sample code
- Private forums
- Hands on labs
- Developer Transition Kit hardware
- Mac mini w A12Z, 16 GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Big Sur beta, and Xcode
- 2 year transition
- AirPods - Craig & Mary-Ann Ionascu (Senior Engineer, AirPods Firmware)
- Keynote
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