Devindra has been writing about the way technology intersects with our lives for nearly 20 years. He started the Amherst Student's first technology column, worked in IT support for many (many) years, and eventually moved to Brooklyn to cover New York's tech scene in 2009.
We're gearing up to cover Apple 's Worldwide Developers Conference next week! In this episode, Cherlynn and Devindra dive into everything they expect at WWDC: Tons of AI announcements; more on iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15; and hopefully some improvements for Vision Pro and visionOS.
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With Google, it still felt a little bit like a mix of what we saw with the duplex announcement years ago with the restaurant reservation, AI slash, whatever you would want to call that. But Apple. Actually coming out and using and uttering the word AI would be a big deal.
And they don't like normally have to build products around, Hey, we got to release a new iPhone next year. Or a new iPad in a couple of years or something. So it seems like that team never fully gelled within Apple. And then most recently, like some of Apple's other executives, like when ChatGPT launched, got really enamored with that stuff and was like, Oh crap, we got to be doing this.
Like you said, like it's only two years of Gen AI has been that much of a hype term. For Apple, this is they haven't waited five years before jumping in. Wow. Like that's,part of the problem is that there's also been a lot of reporting, like Google has been working at this stuff for a long time. I think that a lot of these voice based assistants are dumb in some way or another, like with my Google ones, they're like so bad at responding to me from the correct device. And that might be because I have so many Google devices, but also like Siri is good at working with third party apps that you can morph, iOS has made it so much easier.
And I think that's like definitely interesting and something that we've all been hoping some sort of desktop software comes to tablets, whether on the Android or Apple side. We've been hoping for that forever, but. I don't know at this point that as a user I have any requests other than obviously better understanding of dictation in messages sometimes.Better Siri which by the way I just said that and none of my devices responded and I thought that was smart.
Like the same thing that you encountered with the Rabbit R1, where like the third party like integration was just limited. I assume that Siri's going to run into that as well.Rabbit was working off of websites. So if Uber changed its website Rabbit would have to go back and reprogram how their like little integration with Uber worked.
Yeah. So you could probably potentially drop them anywhere. Like you might be able to on, like you can on Android. I think that's interesting. I don't know if that's necessarily going to change my life. A messierto put a widget in the middle and then like apps somewhere else, like along the sides, flanking, I don't know, within reach of my fingers.
So this interesting, this is a. Interesting potential new iOS 18 thing. I don't care so much about iPadOS, even ifWould you care if they were like, Hey, let's emulate macOS a little bit. Yes, I would. I think To give you moreFunctionally, no, because I don't really use iPads a lot. But yes, as a news person, I care in the same way that like, do I use the calculator on Apple a lot? No, but do I care if they put out a graphing calculator on a phone? Yes.
Okay. We really need time to do all this stuff. I feel like Apple was just super Vision Pro came out hot out of the gate and it's getting criticized for a lot of things because it's not fully baked and they're baking it in real time.
I almost wonder like what else Apple's working on to take advantage of that. I believe the eye tracking and the hand tracking does like. tap into that for some of the underlying stuff with InVision Pro. That's something the Oculus headsets can't do very well because they have much less powerful chipsets.
Maybe a max studio, maybe a Mac mini and that sort of thing. Also to your point about the Mac, the vision pro being expensive, depro nine was saying that, let me just go take out a 10 year loan to go buy a vision pro wow, that is what we're staring down with the price there. I do think though, I want to invite people listening or watching the podcast, send us an email podcasted and gadget.
They just don't want to deal with the idea that, Life can get messy and dirt is a real thing and stink sometimes happens. Michael Timpson says something that I actually wanted to say to Apple car. Didn't they like fire all kinds of people or something? There'sno Apple car. Like the whole thing we talked about was like, seems like that project is at least on the back burner.
NVIDIA had a market value of 3. 019 trillion Wednesday after I think right after close. Apple was at 2. 99 trillion. Couldn't do a little better Apple to really take this on. Microsoft is currently the most valuable publicly traded company. It's market cap is 3. 15 trillion. As of Wednesday. It existed in NVIDIA's dimension. Yeah. And now I guess it paid out for them. Jensen Wong, the CEO and founder of NVIDIA is just must be the happiest man on earth right now.I just want to say that. I think maybe I should have seen the writing on the wall for NVIDIA success when, and I don't know if that's the right thing, but I think when the, during the pandemic, they kept selling out, they were out of stock.
And our team rightly asked me to ask Humane, will they be sending out replacements or will they be refunding people because these cases do cost you money? And our podcast producer, Ben did point out in the earlier part of this live stream that I am vindicated in a way, yes, that like I, that thing was burning me, right?booster pack and the, it was running warm, the. had the like metal edges that would feel like they were burning like hot for me to touch.
HP's name is up there for a billion dollars. I want to, I want that live show. And I want to sit and build a failed product. Fundamentally doesn't solve any problems is a disaster on every level. And then be like, Hey, give me a Billy for this. Give me a billion dollars for my failure.
Nobody has seen this tech before. Who cares if it isn't fully baked or if it's not solving a genuine problem? Who cares?Remember, I remember during the review process where I was like, I walked into the Humania office in New York to take my briefing and saw witness firsthand that all of the staff people there were wearing Humania pins and walking around the office.
They're like this couple. They're so nice, at least to me. And I think that I am aware that there is a privilege in terms of the relationship here that they have to be nice to me.And I don't care how nice they are too. It's great that they're nice. They could be great people. The moon in our chat says, this is a problem in the industry, releasing products with future functionality promises is the new hotness. It can't be alLowd to continue. And yeah, we again have said this, god, episodes past. This has beenIt's not humane alone. Yeah. Like even sometimes when the Surface Duo was launched, it was like software updates are coming to make the experience better but buy it now though, no that's not gonna happen.
And by bringing those issues up to the board, HR reprimanded him. Because of that, because OpenAI leadership didn't want the board to see that, and they called it a security incident, even though he's bringing up stuff that the board should know about, and also information that was publicly available, like when OpenAI said they wanted to do AGI, like a general time frame of 2027 to 2028 they were calling that confidential information.
This is going to be an interesting WWDC to see how much Apple. Leans in on open AI and how much they want to do their own thing. All this is connected. It's all we've been saying, right? Like I think a lot of these companies can't be trusted. I don't trust like how they're handling information, like how they're pulling things in or how they're thinking about security.
A weird thing. This is basically the sort of E3 season. E3 is not happening, but all these companies are getting together and having major game announcements. We'll see. We'll see.Come back to Wingadget. com for all of the updates. Our team is, we have people on the scene and we are also covering remotely, basically quite a lot of people will be writing stories.And let's do something a little different, folks.
We're going to play a little game over here and we're going to see how this works. This is the original audio as we heard it from Nate.But nonetheless, everybody communicates. Everybody sends emails. Everybody has thoughts in their head and you put them down and it sounds like you usually at the very least.That's bad. Not good. Pretty bad. Pretty bad. It didn't sound as bad when on the stream, but I also think the stream may have quieted some of that.
But a showrunner AI they got a lot of buzz because they were like, Hey, you could type in a prompt, an AI prompt and produce a TV show and you can produce something that looks like South Park or something. And it just all reminds me of this in a way. Yeah I don't think that's that product is very good.
Whereas, Hey, just giving people, giving actual artists the tools to make their art better or to do their things more easily is a better function of these tools rather than Just do the art,right? Yeah, and I want to shout out a comment from our live stream that says sell your shares in high end microphone companies Ai is about to put them out of business That's not true What's going to end up happening is that the high end microphone companies are going to end up Selling you the same...
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