Personal Tech and AI Automation

That means move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me Welcome to Primary Technology the show about the techn 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 WWBC and our hopes and dreams 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 WW as well This episode is brought to you by Nord Layer and you all the members who support us directly. I one of your host, Evenen Roblo is joined by journalist J Nayaton. How's it? We're still doing that, huh? We' 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 feed Yeah, becausecause otherwise it I knowakes. Because I just want to be clear, I'm not asking Stehven to call me a journalist. Not at all, not at all But you're also not a leaker. So do you do you know where that quote comes from? By all means I dolease Yes It's from the Deils Weears Prada. Yes. That's right. But the only reason I know that is because they just made a sequel. 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 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? And my wife is not really a double worars product kind of. kind of gal. so I was like, we should watch this. She more Louis Vuitton. She's like, why is Cruella devilla in? I'm like, exactly That's exactly the case. She shoulds a very good careel de. Also, so we have five star reiews and I just want everybody to know that Jason did not know this reference Podcast sevenenty to eight from the USA basically quoted Pinky and the brain in their review And Jason know thinking in the brain I had no idea I'd never heard of them. whichich blew my mind. So please leave us a five to rating review. Do you know what pinky in the brain is? Because 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 Luke Ireland said that featuring journalist Jason Nayon and some other guys is a great show. had 's skip the first word because I'm not saying the word So I suc We'll see if I get the rest of the show. Thank you for those fast reviews and I made a terrible mistake last week I said Uuguay and I mentioned it was in Central America. I don't know why I did that. That was a geographical Brainfart Paupa Faux pas. So it's South America. South America will be represented by our polar bear and Medieval Kight pin by being an Uu, and so I'm wait 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 Kight traveling around and Andrew madeade 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 in Nintendo Tokyo We're there. We're in Asia, we're in Europe. Soon to be Africa, South America. we 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 going do a big dub dub show today, ourur hopes and dreams, what we think we're really going to see and then we'll see who's right next week But I did want to sh 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 clean it for free What is the trade What do you think the trade offff is, Jason since you hadn't heard about this? Well, I did just look at a tweet about it Okay . Hold 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. T 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. Can 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 can do theseese 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 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. And so, you know, you gott to get them all. You got to train it all. so. Yeah, shifted 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.'ll see. there' a bunch 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 X one robot come in my house and do some stuff just a real person in VR But then say don't only go to this room You know what I mean? like stone stone 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. L druct This school to kick you. I'm gonna kick you So there's that There's that. And then one other quick News bits. So N Vidia they actually had a big event in this morning or early this morning we're recording on Monday in case you realizeed. this is kind of an episode out of time But they recorded and they w announced a super chip. So there's a super chip now where I forgot what they call it. I just had the Mac Rumors article club. This might be coming to Windows species. I was hoping to read this Axios article, but it's of course behind Paywable. If you put it in reader mode, you can see the whole thing. That's so weird that thing No, I can't. L lookook at this. This isos was using Safari. If you were using a real browser, you'd be able to see I'm about to I'm going to flip a table. Listen to me. this is this is Axio We don't have time to talk about Metization and modern journalism. But the fact that I can't read a single medium article or any Axios article at all It just feels like it's not sustainable, you know what I mean I agree. I'm not going to put that actually link in the In the shows because nobody could read. But o, so this is the new chip 's trying to take on Appleilicon in the RTX spark. And I saw the video, they basically showed it like fusing two chips together, kindind of like Apple talks about the ultra versions of the chips 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. we might see in Windows laptops powered by Nvidi chips soon because you know Windows laptops powered by arm chips is going so well for them Is it I have no idea? it's not at all. Okay, I have no idea. Windows on arm, as far as I know is not Well, yeah, okay. Well, we'll say I mean in in videoo chips though People like them peopleeople people dying. peopleople like that. peopleople like them All, let's talk about WWC First of all, Journalist Mark German tweeted this and I thought was interesting Kelsey Peterson Wh was the announcer of Apple Intelligence two years ago at W WDC. She just started at O AI So she will not be making an appearance during the keynote on Monday Talking about Apple I intelligence. He's never going get to like redeem the All the things she anounced didn't come true. I may right now So yeah, I thought that was Kind of funny. Kelsey Peterson now open AI. She was the one that announced all the Apple intntelligence stuff that didn't come twow years ago So there's that But I want to go through some of the rumors that have come out. So room round up and we're going to kind of give our Is it actually going to happen or not Be There's a lot of things, and there's lot of rumors 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 personersalized Si which will be And the personalized series 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 my mom from the airport? And Siri iss 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 pull all that information together and just tell you the number, tellell you what time you need to leave because it just knows all the things And in addition to, you know, being a personalized serory, well Let's let's This Nber one. The personalized series Are we going to see that this year actually come out. H. So this is complicated, Stehven. because I think the answer is yes. But I don't think it's going to be what we saw in twenty twenty four How do you think is going to be different? I think it will be the minimum viable product version of that because essentially what they were promising back then was what Claud can do for you if you give it access to enough information. Yeah for sure. Like if Claud can access your messages, it could one hundred percent do this for 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 because for example, like The goal here, like sandboxing sort of defeats this. I know that there are ways to low out apps to share information and stuff, but I'm just not sure because really they have to have the app intense Well, but they could also do personalized series stuff I mean, there could be caveats like if you use Sark and not mail. Yeah, that's not going to work. We can't do that That is that is going, you know, I even think about that challenge over these l. No, because nobody, here's the thing, the people who care the most about this as early adapters. There are people who are least likely to be using the mail app and whatever notes or whatever Right.t I know of an app you could use instead of Apple Notes. It's great Linkedn whenever API comes out. Yeah, the app intense the. Well so That a personalized Sirory. you're saying yes with caveats. I think they will talk about a personalized version of Sirory. 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 Federigi 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 gonna be the whole. you could have a conversation with it and it's like, hey, what time is the flight landing? And will we have enough time to get to our reservation? Like the number of things that have to be able to work for it to do and it has to just not hallucinate and like, oh, yeah, you're having dinner over there. That is important. So I think there will be a thing I'm not convinced it will be the promise that they made in twenty twenty four stay I am I'm like a four on the They're going to talk about a personalized intelligence. in some version. F out of five. Yeah. Oh my God one and a half that it'll be Okay, well, I'm actually gonna to agree with you because I feel I like your take on this. and I feel like that's probably what we're gonna say The other rumor that journalist Mark Grerman 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 would just build it for you I'm going to say that's not going to happen I think that there will be Apple intntelligence maybe built into shortcuts that helps you suggest actions or maybe guides you The full prompting from scratch I played with the Sortcut Studio app. greatreat effort at making having AI makeix shortcuts for you and even Federuico Fichi 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 Both of those methods, the Shortcut Studio and Federico's Shortcuts playlayground, they're very good but they still fail in the last ten 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 last ten 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 beholding 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, Claud and Op 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. Yeah if I'm actually, but I think it might there might be some guidance, but you won't have like a make from scratch, what shortcut do you want and it just do it That's piction H so you say what do you saying a zero I'm going to say a zero on like prompt shortcut creation Okay, I'm going to say a three because otherwise it's not as interesting if we agree on everything. But also, again, I think they're going to say something It may not be the thing that you' that you just described, but I think that Apple does this. It's like, see, we we made the thing and it's like 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 And then the thing is They can get you ninety percent of the way and someone like you can figure out the last ten percent. and that's great. It saves you some time. You just have to tweak it or whatever. The whole point 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 going to be a problem. However I don't think it matters I don't think that this is going to expose short cooks to more people anyway No that's my job. And that will still be my. sureure And that's I'm safe Oh 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. Its you're running of time, if you want to read the Gifted article. Oh yeah, that's right. We're at Well, thankfully we're recording early. they're not gonna to hear this early though That's correct. Yeah, they still here on Thursday m. fifteen minutes go. Eactly Germman said that the there's going to be the standalone Si app. I think this is accurate. I'm going to be a five out of five. I think we're going to see a standalone SirI app. where you can interact and chat with it and'll have your conversation here. have history. I think this is ex. What do you think I thought think so Youre saying five Yeah, I'm saying. I think we're supp to be rating these, right? Yeah, I' saykay. zero to five, how sure I don' know if're to give a five to anything to be honest But maybe we'll see. I mean The rumors make it seem like this is probably pretty likely I just haate it. so All right,'ll say we'll say you agree I'll put you down for a five Five out of five Pick your AI This one I'm I'm unsure about. So a lot of the rumors were Right now there's the Chatu P integration in Apple Intelligence. so if you want to choose that you can you know, ask Siri to ask ChPT or use ChPT like image playaygrounds. And then in IowS twenty seven, you'll be able to choose between Gemini, clawed and open AI Like the 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 it to go to Claude. Thism not I'm not down. like I don't think I'm not very sure about this. I'm going to give this a three person. Why don't you think this is going I mean, you already have the ability to log into your open an Ie account Well, one, I think the Gemini integration is not going to be surfacace to the user I think the deal that they made with Google, Gemini's going to power more of the Apple Intelligence features But I don't think that means they're going to put a Gemini loggin 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 they're using from that's a Gemini model to power the underlying foundation model. But that is different, right? Right now Siri has one, right? It sucks, but it has they have one. Yeah. I think that this is more like I love Claude. I just want to save all my requests and Claude to when on device is not capable of doing that. And so I think it's more likely than not that this 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 Claud, 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 ChatRPT. L conversation. But if they're going build the Siri app for the same purpose, like it makes no sense that if you're logged into one of those accounts, that that information wouldn't just be saved So what do you so you're saying like four 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 doneb 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. m sense. I think the people who want to use these features probably also have a particular bent towards claud or just. It's still just going to be wrapped up in serory Yeah, I don't know. we'll see All right, what about grammarly style serory? 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. it's just going Do it automatically Graammly Basically like in a web browser and stuff like that and everywhere you type This feels like I could see this in a keynote them being like Yeah, no Apple Intelligence is going to take care of all your gramm You're never going to spepell anything again Sure I'm gonna give a three. How are you All right. All right, we agree on three The next so generated wallpapers A. You can one hundred percent do this right now with shortcuts and Apple intntelligence. I've made almost did it, almost did it. I've made shortcuts that you can prompt and have built 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 intntelligence m I'm a five out of five. I think we're going to 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 just People like this kind of stuff What wallpaper do use it? Do use the same wallpaper all day every day, never change it Pretty much. is it black of? Just a black screen Well, are you talking about it on my home screen? Are you talking about? Be 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 in then my home screen is just like, brrushed aluminum black And it's been that way forever Yeah, and I would literally never change it. and I said it and I mean it Black likeack your soul. Okay, let's keep going. No, it's because it makes it super easy to identify all the things on it Okay, ye 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 Appleatch 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 Iate that so much I vary my home screen wallpaper a lot. I use a lot of basic apppple. Someone on social media thought I was the same as basic Apple guy I, I don't know if I have any way to prove this but I'm That would be the story of the centic. I have an entire text thread and if he doesn't exist, it's just me talking myself and it'd be very troubling I don't very fight club So I I won't reveal anymore, but Also he had a great quote he well, he texted me. If you believe that he exists and that I am not him, he texts to me this He's he's working on some stuff And he want 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 three year old. to build furniture. The three rolled nameamely 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. H. 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 that was a pretty good analogy Maybe not that we're not a three year old. Maybe we're like eight orine I think 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. Well I just like the picture of 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 Christas they sh They shut that down, though. They don't let you talk to it with WhatsApp or whatever Oh I don't know. I thought there's still like one hundred calls chat GBT or whatever. That sounds right All right, so for generated wallpapers, Ip pute Stehven five, Jason Man. Visual intelligence improvements This was interesting. So visual intelligence, you know, right now, do you ever use it? You probably visual sometes U 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 is that. I've used I use visual intelligence basically in the screenshot area. like if there's a date on screen and I want to add it to my calendar, and those' go into our request 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 and then exX out so it doesn't save the screenshot 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 were saying is to look at a breed of puppy, but what you Well lookook at a puppy breed, but I just feel like it's not like we're using as a verb and not a noun. That's fine. Well, anyway, some of the visual 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 looking at a business card, taking a picture and then parsing the information into contacts. which shortcuts can kind of do. L if you just say pull text from image, get phone number, get address, get URL's from the image, you can then parse that into a contact and make it So yeah, visual intelligence is doing that right out of the gate seems. pretty easy, notot easy, but it seems like very very possible And that feels like a feature that like Craig Federk's going to show off at DubbW. L, you could take a picture of business card and just your contacts Yeah. I'm a five out of five for that. I think the health stuff too probably coming to. Okay, greatr, Steven and Jason f sureure New camera this was interesting, new camera stuff So I was twenty seven, the camera app might get more customizable controls, which it kind of has this 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 on advanced mode giving power or pro users be able to switch on the fly between certain things. like you can already switch between Pro RA or whatever But maybe manual focus, things like that. Maybe this is a sure loocking of some apps like HalLied. Of course, Halied has a bunch of other features that will not be shirlocked, I'm sure. But yeah, update a camera rep I feel like they're updating that. Yeah, I'm sure they're gonna upd the camera. but I'm sure it will have some of the things that we've seen. I don't think that it's going have any impact on Hay because they they still have to make the camera app abbsolutely dummy proof because it's the single most important feature on the iPhone Yes. It's the single most important feature on any piece of technology made Again, 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 camer lenses. I hate it so much So do I. but no one does it. Everyone just pinches and zooms to frame the shot. and then does it. And I I wanted to stand up in the dark. I said, everyverybody 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 three X they or not three X. They got two X four X. I like hit one of those. Now we do not deserve this technology, Steen No, no, we deserve it. I use those lensens all the time. I hit four X and then I hit I started the video and it was pretty amazing. I posted on social media, like the difference between like my seat versus even the eight Zoom. It's very goodness. Eespecially with enough light That's But I was in a low light condition. it was still very good. Yeah, but there was light on the stage. Oh yeah yeah. There's plenty plenty of light. I'm not taking a picture of' like pure pure darkness. Yeah. So darkness. camera This is like a who's line is anyway. The points don't matter. I'll say you and I are a four for updated camera. No, that's a five. They're gonna it's It's clap. Okaykay, Okay absolute We'll go with that Now this part I'm a little I have mixed feelings about becausecause in addition to an updated camera app, They're going to put more Apple intelligence or AI features in photos, like photo editing which we already have like clean up and the subject removal but we might see E you know extxtend, enhance, and reframe. Extend en handance and refraame, which enhance and it will allow you to generate additional content beyond the original. frame that that It would make enhance just makeakes your photos pop a little more whatever, fine. And the reframe is meant to let you shift the perspective of a spatial photo After the picture is taken, which is never going to be used because no one actually takes special photos You just go on the Vision Pro and say make it a spcial scene. But no one who's not used a Vision Pro is ever going take a speial photo Well, I don't I take spatial video sometimes veryery rarely. But I will do that sometimes. I don't even think I knew that was a thing. Spatial video? Y. Oh but isn't that like the weird creepy thing that's just like in a little box? Yeah. ye yeah. I did it when I I was at the skate park And we wanted to see what it look like with my kids My son's like jumping off a ramp And So we did it then. And I did it a couple of times like at Christmas when we were opening gifts. because or excuse me, JIiffs because you can kind of don't know, it's kind of cool feel call calls anywayere 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. they' definitely to do it. They're five out of five AI AI health coach So you know, Google Health and the Fitbit Air came out recently. Apple already has workout buddy which is kind of Is this not really a coach per se. It's more like a Motivational speaker. S greatreat job whichich 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 it's like you're still walking. great Usually it's like Do you wantan to pause your workout? I'm like, No, I'm still walking. not going fast enough. R don't like stop hassling me workout, buddy. But you seem to be taking a break. I'm like, no, I'm just walking slow. Yeah. But yeah, the AI this feels again, like an AI powered health coach, this could play 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. heart rate in AirPods Pro three, AI powered health coach maybe giving you insights and trends, saying like Hey, maybe, you know, don't get that frost lemonated today. No, it's not going to say the stuff like that, but you know, I think that this is a I think this is more like a three. I think it's fifty fifty whether this is going becausecause we've heard stories that they've scaled back Yeah, it's, I mean, that's the headline of this is some of their AI powered plans for health and that's because it's tricky because you don't want to make a promise Right? 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. 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 ify. it's ify More home screen tools like the ability to undo and redo widget stuff That feels longong needed 'use sometimes you place a widget on that home screen, it just blows up everything And so yeah, maybe an undo redo I think there would be more home screen tools in general they always put more homeom screen tos because it's what ninety percent 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 homeom screen So let's 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, then you can kind of make this like weird generic pass for it and Rumors are this is Mark German at Bloomberg saying 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 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. I think and then There's some Mac features and more application stuff like organizing saafari tabs and 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 because I don't use saafari, but sure. I can' ask it revamped AirPod settings. so rather than the like People I guess have complained that the AirPod settings a little convoluted in settings app so they're gonna like rework all that ure setettings change pretty often Yeah, but they don't usually get better just that's what I'm saying, just changing N not necessarily we're not saying better We'll do that Enhanced auto correct, my wife still complains about And I just experienced it two auto correct on the iPhone is still struggling. If they only do one thing, they have to do this, do 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 bbait, which is it's thread. so probably But like this seems to be a widespread epidemic, be like Man, the number of people who like are having this problem Pre pretty outgeous I'd be embarrassed if I work for App I see a lot of TikToks, 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 thirteen. 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 wantan to buy a new phone They just want to keep the phone that they have And it's like, okay, but it You do realize like How many years has it been fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,. It's been five years since that phone came out That's a pretty long time Yeah Yeah, I mean, it probably still works just by my son is rocking an eleven 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 eleven Pro whereere you bring the two phones together. Oh yeah it does airdrop because I don't think it has any a. No, it must have it because it has Applic pay. Yeah, but it doesn't have the name drop It doesn't have the ultra wide bandship. That's's's what it is I don't know. I mean like I constantly forget that, but it still works fine. I mean, the battery is at like six to two percent, but whatever. Yeah you know, that happens, that happens Okay, and the last couple things, then we'll go into more of our personal hopes and dreams iPadOS twenty seven may be 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 iPadOS twenty six 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 down. Here's some of other window features. And probably nothing else S I want 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 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 ch one hundred percent of the time, they're going to just 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 sometimes I wonder like Is this stage manager? Is this just windowing I feel like it's confusing. but It does not have to be confusing. Just never turn on stage manan. 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 mananager 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 manageed. 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 actualight. So leave it turned off. Here's the D't to worry about it. Here's one bug and I don't know if it's the app or iPad O twenty six 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, Ferite If I'm in windowing mode, And I try to drag a file using universal control from my Mac to my iPad somethingomething weird happens and the Ferite app like Hops into some weird shape and I can't drag a file So I have to go into full screen app mode just to drag a file into Ferite 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 like Its anyway,'s weird. Why don't you just import it from iClou? Like it'sready, isn't it already un wayay slower I do this every day Universal control dragging it over into Ferrite way faster. Does't sound like you just describe fifteen minutes of rigamor role you have to do. It's just a shut automation right now. I just would love to not have to have that automation so I can keep it in windowing. But is it is way faster Tust me I don't know if they change so last thing I don't know if they can change my macOS, but just do something. do something Design wise, some design tweaks.'s the rumors are that there's going to be some design tweaks or whatever Do something 's all I'm say 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 going to have Alan Die talking about liquid gas this year. So Youion to me but we're still gonna have liquid glass Yeah, no we we're still going have a c glass. That's not going away a year later. Do you think'll see we'll see Stephen Lamay during the keynote at all? ure N no because they're not introducing a new interface design But they got to talk about Oh Yeahah,'sue I mean, we really only see Ellen die when they do the dynamic island and they do a liquid glass. Like I can think of another time. Okay, last prediction rating. before we get to our wishes. Do you think they will announce a new app for one of the platforms pereriodically we get something like the journal app and that gets a big Well, the Sir app. if they do the Sir app, then yes Okay, and when they do an app, They usually have someone announce and talk about the design. That could be a place where they kind of stick Stehen Le May, not in like a maine featured apart, but they're like, you can talk about the design in relation to this app kind of thing It's going to be whoever's in charge of Sirory right, I'm going to say we're going to see Steven Le I'm going to say yes, and you say no, we're not going to see you Sure Okay, we'll see who' right is right All right, so I' have a lengthy wishlist that we're going to jam through and then we have a bunch of Listener and viewer requests on social media that you guys have shared We're going to talk about that as well. 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I'llare the Apple news article sobody can read Tell us about your hopes and dream Well, I just want to Here's the tough thing There's this van There's this Balance, I mean, arguably WWDC, it's a developer conference But all 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 redesign thing Do we get a new ser up? Do we whatever? All that stuff's fine But that's not really the point of WWDC. The point of WWDC should be was like at least nominally to explain all the things that are coming thing to the new operating system, so developers can either build apps or tailor their apps for those things. There are two things I would like to see One, I would like them to finally figure out the st Stupid app intense thing. Right? Because that is the core promise that they made in twenty twenty four 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 able to figure it out? orr will they just adopt something else? right? Any of those things are possible But that is what will allow you to say to Dingus. Hey, Dgis, 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 do this in Cloud. You do it in Claude right now. Do all these other things whatever. It's just, you know, 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 adopt this because they don't want you to just be able to shout out and be like lac my door dash order, right? Like I get it. They 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 Who was at that meeting as yesterday, right? Either it can find it on the calendar or it 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 the 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 be 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 dos. exxcept the context window on the on device Apple intntelligence model is like four thousand R Whatever. It's like a very, very small window So I have to build into the pro planan version, allow openp AI. So it was really important to me to be able to have a privacy story, which was all this stuff happens on a device. I don't even own any servers. I don't have anything to do with any of this. I'm not storing your data, it's all in Cloudit not. processing anything, I'm not doing any of that stuff But. The Apple I intelligence model is too small, so I am going to make it possible for you to just it's just one option, allow open AI, which all that means is if the model, if 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 computeer server somewhere and make that available to a developer That will change the That will change what we can see in small As. in a way that we have not seen on the iPhone in a long time because right now you have to figure out like I had to build a Cloudflare coworker, 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 computer Yes. And I think we had several people reach out and developers wanting Something like that, you know, the similar building that into to Iowa' twenty seven We'll see. and charge for it. This is a totally reasonable thing to charge for. 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. R. 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' that sounds strange, but way. Rem remember, Apple used to charge for software updates. You used to have to buy OS ten upgrades one hundred and twenty dollars one hundred and twenty dollars. little or whatever. Little box from the Apple store. I think I saw my left. Comp USA. I've been to Comp USA and bought several updates. There you go All right, so those are great suggestions. So you can I now have a rather lengthy list of my desires And you can agree or poopoo any of these. but For I pedowis and also IOS. Usually these kinds of features go to both, but I'm hoping For some kind of API board managers. text expander expansion type but using the built in keyboard I don't want to use a third party keyboard just for features like text expxpander. 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 Datajar 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 cllipboard manager, but it's 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 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 four to try and get to my clipboard. and I have to remember, oh, that's not here on the iPad. 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 center. Use more of the screen I don't need a tiny little control center. Like the iPad is a huge screen. att leastouble even if you don't want to go full screen on the control center for Pad, at least make it a little bigger Like two thirds of the screen or something Do you want either of those things I mean, a clipickboard 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 that More often than not I'm just kind of just copy things from my Mac to my Yeah, Universal clipbard great. And there's 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 But then I have a link that I want to share. I do it in two steps becausecause 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 cross 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 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 I'd love to just have a clipboard manager right have it all there. and I could just go back and copy whatever. So 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 expanders are so much more than just that. Like I have text snppets that insert the current date or adjust the date and insert that. So for topop five Tch, it's my weekly show that comes out every Friday I to whichich is like a top sixty podcast already. It was. Yeah thiss six thanks everybody. Yeah But yeah ple leave a fast st reing review because I don't know apparentlybody't it. but anyw It's a four minute podcast. How do you not like it? It's a fake podcast? That's It's fake pcast. That's But no, Texas manander like for top five tech, I have a little snippet where when I I title my bear note, I titled the campaign name where I send the email out that I do Smic Con TFT for topop five tech And it expands to say top five text 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 Fridays's date and things like that You can't do that with text replacements. You cant do those. You can't have like The clipboard, which I've done I do this a lot too with Texas Bpander where whatever's on my clipboard. insert it into this text string. and then expand that whole strength. And that's something that text replacements can' do. So I want that kind of stuff Like, let Texas Bander just be there behind the scenes like it is on my Mac. onn my iPad and iPhone that That's probably less likely to happen but I want. That's what, you know. Mail I know you don't use the stock mail app, but I do. and that This is from Oeno on X Their requests are snooz for messages. That's great, not just for mail, but I think for messages too. like 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 schedued messages now so maybe we could do that Also when a user is sharing their location, this is from Ogeno show time zone in iMessage. That's a pretty cool feature. I had not thought of that and the maail But've known about this 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, o sorry I'm going to leave it But it action 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 makes it reappear at the time that you're snoozing too I want that still in stock mail. And I use Se later folders for this. whichich works great in stock mail, but you use spark, which isn't so you Sark is Amazing Yes, ye, I know it's great It's great it's great Also more of shortcut actions for mail and automation triggers for mail Yeah game I'm talk about shortuts. Yeah let's talk about it I have a ton of shortcuts request. I'm not I'm not going to go through it all Matthew Casneelli Shortcuts Guru I learn so much from him. He requested folder groups in shortcuts or tags which is a great idea because guys like Matthew and I have tons of shortcuts folders and I' 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 love phone call automation trigger weather 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 In shortcuts right now, you have to set it up every hour You have to say, run at eight AM daily, run at nine AM daily, run at ten A daily Automation repeats to go every hour. A actuallyctually some of in my shortcuts community say they want a shortcut to run every five minutes. which sounds wild, but it's because they want it to information in an Apple nototes. 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 homeome kit sensor requests like door left open automations Let me be rather than do an if statement and wait 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 you ever played around with craft, Jason Yeah, everybody does. Everybody goes through that phace F goes in that face. You do obsidian, then 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 conttextly and it's great. I was wondering where you're gonna to land on that makes sense I'm I've triedraft craft in the past and this is CRAFT, not the cheese, not the cake.rect. But craft Come a longong way. I jumped in there because someone asked for a craft shortcut And I was like, wow. The design is really nice right now and it feels very native And it works great on the iPhone and then they added Can band viewbards, which is how I do my video stuff And you're the one telling me you can't believe 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 Claud can't talk to reminders natively There's no connector for Apple rememinders And so when I did Jason yesterday, sitting on my patio Did you see Federico Vitici released Rem C T L. D deffinitely not This is he built a CLI cllawed and open AI to talk to Apple rememinders And so I will put the article in the show notes He's a P Vitici is building wild stuff over there now. He just he really shortcuts playground. Then last week he just released REMCTL. But if you install this and get it running it allows claouud 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 this the process because I have no idea what I did. I just kept asking Claud code Can you make it work? What do I need to do? Like tellell 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 Claud Code Okay, buddy Move all my reminders from my video projects list into craft in the same C ban style using the same column names Can you do that And it saids said I got to bro N verbatim, but basically And then it just did adjSON And this one, it amazed me, two I'm going to be checking in a craft now because I was also building shortcuts 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 Aivity 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 version. makeake 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 s just to try Like you could just ask AI to do it. I thought that was cool A counterpoint that friction was a good thing ' it stops people from just having cft everywhere. And 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 the things. Yeah. And I do have to try lots of things because in order for me to like write about something I have to spend some time with 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 systemis? 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.ure. It might be how you work yourself up to do the stuff that feeds your children. It's important. Is' it my kids joke that I turn coffee. I turn Cffee into words and I turn words into money and then we spend most of the money on coffee. So it's just a cycle It a m but But 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 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 built 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 why 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 and hole in what I was doing. and I don't know. I just that's my the friction was good. That's what I'm saying I'm inclined to ree 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 like fifteen minutes. And maybe that lack of friction is not great It's going to give me to try craft again, so sure It's great for them, I guess But 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 can't do it with shortcuts. It would 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 big because so many times People have asked me for a shortcut that will 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 fous mode now Pe want to do it automatically and not have to think about it And in order to do that right now with IowS twenty six, 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 activ a fooccus mode, mayaybe it's start a voice memo, maybe it's whatever. L that would be great. And also Rowan says Shortcut actctions for Fine My. ping my airPods from my watch That's a great suggestion too. There's not really any find my actions and shortcuts right now people or items and that wouldll be great. So Rade recommendations there Also This is from In Man. he's going on to Vision Pro I'm just going to run down some of my other shortest ones and then we'll talk about Vision Pro. Do you still use it every day Every day you already al right here today. You did That's amazing sllash orcus actions, raapid 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 an Apple TV When Apple TV turns on, do this. You can set up automations to turn on Apple TV in shortcuts and automations, but you can make an Apple TV turning on as a trigger. And that'll 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 everything, you know run a home casenine or whate 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 I was twenty six to be able to put like bank accounts, software licenses. I would love to be able to keep all that there. likeike I do in one password. And I think you'll agree on this. sccreen time Fix screen time Yeah just one hundred percent. If you don't say anything else the rest of this time, one hundred percent. But can why don't you just use secure notes for those things? No, it's not It's not the same, but it is that's the thing. Like the passassword 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 passwords to do a lot. I would let me know what you think of this. I would love a standalone screen timee at where you can manage your kids requests, the screen timee settings and just all the screent timee 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 sccreenime app rather than in dumb message conversations. 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, now 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 st stand alone screen time app what What you think about? Any think that's good idea I do worry about the idea this philosophy that everything needs to be in a stand alone ass Sure, but like screen time specifically because The the same theory We got a passwords app. We got like this there is a little bit of There is a little bit of blowing yeah like whyy you got to pre inststall this bloat on my device when you hand it to me? W the screime app, there's so much going on there Same thing's true with passwords, But then also like requires notifications and approvals and interaction. And like to be able to in a focus mode, say, you know what? I don't want to get screen timee requests right now I want to when I'm filming this video, not see a request for Plex For one for on I want to go through a video recording and that's 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, knocks I agree with you. I get that sentiment though. tootally get it MacOS, I just want to point out last year, one of my big requests last year was MacOS Shortcuts automations. and we did get that, which is wonderful I would also like to see this is not macOS specific, but iCloud slash home kit like just addd all the homekit secure video features like up to four K cameras in iCloud secure homeccure video pan and tilt controls Give us a web interface for seeing recordings from our homeomekit secure video We need all of that. It's been I've been asking it for literally literally Years. because I've been asking for it since Home Kid Inider days And we're still not there. So it's at 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, thirty three X Jason and I may be the only ones that want continued support for Avision OS. No, I want to say it too. newew environments, new content Sports Vision Pro, which I feel like Apple is 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. What would you like to see from? I would like environments to be portable I want to be able to read my mail in Avengers Tower yes Wh which is an environment in the Disney pllus app. Yes, yes,. But I want them I want developers to just like 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 can be like doing your slack That would been Times square or whatever. you Like I just, I don't know. Also, I want them to do more of what you and I talked about. L 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 a controller. You know, likear. Yeah, there's a little bit of emotion sickness that happens there when you're in an immersive thing and and you It's like my kid can't play Minecraft in the car because bad things happen. Well, you know, yeah had a double motion or whatever That would be cool That would be cool. And they've not launched they did Jupiter last year. That was the one new environment, I feel like. and it'd be nice that they added way more I just think there is this 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 that Did you listen to Adam Listing Gore on the talk show recently? justust like that guy, I don't know. and he is way more into the Vision Pro than I am. Like's just'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. It's just so heavy Yeah, But like they could solve the heavy by just getting rid of the front eyeballs. and making out of plastic J 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 Where am my vision Pro in a place where the eyeballs are necessary you never weren it on a plane. You never had the flight attendant looking at your googly eye. Stehven 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 toonight. I'm a YouTuber. Are you taking it tonight No First of all, am I going for forty eight hours, so when am I going to hit a Rot You were one of the few people who are like, I'm going to travel internationally but forty eight hours. I'm going to Monaco. I'm going to get there tomorrow and I'm gonna fly home Thursday That's wild. I gotta keep graduating I know, no, you got to be there for that. No, know it's just it's wild L, 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, atttach files to reminders. one hundred percent and deep link support. This is huge. If you want to do shortcuts and you try to do more productivity stuff 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 becausecause 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, create an Apple Note tied to that reminder, add you know, you can do a whole bunch of stuff. So deep linking huge, huge deal. recommend I'm also going to link this from listener tech by Pz. 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 Look fix improvements, things like that. hopefully well see that And no, I don't want to continue on is to bring up Greg C. tech on threads said home screen, he wants the ability to remove app names without making them bigger, tootally agree. M control over home screen sizing and app layout. alsoso agree. you take if you make large app icons on the Pro Max phone and you remove these search Little box that appears on the home screen, there is a grand Canyon space between the bottom apps and your dock So one hundred percent, it would be great 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, one hundred percent. That'd be fun Ryan off. On Blue Sky said ability to hide the dock on IOS twenty seven, more widget sizes that would be cool, evenven like a one by one widget kind of like a shortcut App , transansparent widget backgrounds with no borders.'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 going to get lower a commissions. But Ryan also said he sent me a DM on threads And you would love to be able to Code an app on iPh. or iPad which we talked about after Google IO, like Google AS Studio, they're launching that app for both Android and iPhone. so you can Vbe 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, Okaykay I don't know. I mean, Yeah 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 phhysical connection or uploading them to A store connect just to download it on your phone. Like I get that. That is annoying and takes away. is 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 swip, you know swipe over to Xcode mobile or whatever. I mean, there is Xcode Proud Yeah, but Do It's the same thing On device Well I'm saying you can go to Yeah, I mean, what my point is for that use case, there is a solution But it wouldd be nice to just go over to the app on your phone Type in the bug fix prompt to whatever AI chatpot building your app And then reinstall the app right and fix the bug immediately basically And nothing's going to be immediately because Well' Jason agreed. If you're watching, you can see Jason kind of agreeing in his head, but he didn't want to say it. That saw that happened ee, exactly, exactly what do you want to do? That was our hopes and dreams. That was our listener hopes and dreams. There was journalist German talking about what's coming in twenty twenty seven. We can definitely hold that we have a year a half before that's going to happen. Let's hold that. And so for personal tech, I already talked about REMCTL, what the Federico Vitici Claud thing. So tell me, you said Claud 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 That I needed someone taking care. No, I needed something done And she is a very busy Ver, very, very busy. So like She was never going to be able to work at Chick F life Right? Like she just she played soccer, she just does too many things. She's playing multiple sports, whatever. 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 We talked about this last week. I keep all of my articles in there and typically when I There's a couple of reasons for this. There was a time when I had a research assistant, so I would create something in there. I would put it in a description, then she would do the research for me. She'd give it all to me, and then I'd start writing the article. and it was all great. So I put ideas into notion. I have a Camban board of things I want to work on, all that kind of stuff But what usually happens is the eye just accumulate the ideas and then I don't I'll write the article and publish it, but going back to notion to do all that stuff is just kind of a matious. And so I was like, listen I haven't I have not updated Notion with published links, traffic, all this stuff in like eighteen months. Madison, who's my oldest daughter? I'm like, Can I pay you? You can just do this whenever. like spend two hours a week doing like whatever, I'll pay you twenty bucks an hour. This is the best gig you're gonna to 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 you just need I would just and it's like super easy. Like remember I just need you to like, oh, title, go to my author page, find the thing It was never going to happen and now she's graduating and she's moving out. So that idea like did not come to fruition. then I was like Hang on, you and I talked about like laud, all this stuff. I said I So I just ask I just ask cld a question. and this is an important this is a pro tip, just all of you The first thing you should do Anyt timee you want to get started with Claude on anything is say I have a question. I don't want you to do anything yet I 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 start doing. I'm like, I want to know what you're going gonna do first. So I asked and it's like, Yes, I can do this. Here's how it works a 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 directa based entries. And if there's one that's not in Notion, which there was like one hundred thirty that were not in Notion, I can just 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 future, so like let me know And it did the whole thing And it probably imported hundred and seventy five No, I probably imported like two hundred and seventy five articles over the last like sixteen months that were not even I had never even put in Notion because that's how bad I am at database management. U So now I have this full database that is completely accurate back to like actually at this point is accurate back to twenty twenty four. It was mostly accurate before that. I don't care that old. But Notion has pretty decent AI But because it's now connected, I can just ask SQuad, hey What did I have to say about this? O have I written about the time that Tim Cook did this? or have I? like that one time when Musk and 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? It's It was amazing That is I'm getting to a place where There's been so many benefits of connecting Claw to the different things I approve all the things. likeike every time it says, Ohh yeah. I could do this, but I need permission. I' wass like, No no problem, buddy. It's like, if I could, I would just give you blanket permission. I trust you more than my children. Well clearly, clearly. Right. When I was doing the REMCTL from Vichi and setting it up It was like I Claude was saying 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.cess I No problem. J just tell me, do you need? do youere put it? I hand you my disk and put it in your pocket, you have the whole thing. you need my password, you need my iloud password, two factor code, whatever you want. Let's just do it. It's just so Once you fall down rabit ho It is pretty amazing 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 at fifty dollars 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 now I use the Mi chat service, which I'm paying fifteen dollars a month anyway for that. So you know The mini chat service, someone comments a word and the mini chat app automatically replies to their comment and DMs them the a link It works fine. It is how every creator on Instagram gets links to people they do it Tk does not allow this Mini chat does not work with TikTok in that way. You can't comment on a TikTok and Mini chat automatically reply and DM you link. It just doesn't have that feature And the problem is I am not going 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 Put the link in the comments and here's how to get it Jason Wild guess Do you think even after I say that in the video, do people still comment shhortcut on TikTok Of course If you' not ofified people get upset becausecause they're like, I commented shortcut and you didn'tnd it to me And I said, Well, if 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 but I'm going to make two videos. So I've thought about Telling Claud doing a schedued task, which you can do. So I could tell Claude to do this every hour mayaybe just once a day and just say go to my latest TikTok I post the link in the comments. So the link that Claud needs could be right there And say Claude, if there's a link, if there's a shorta link that I've posted in the comments. Take that link. And just reply to every comment that says shortcut withith 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 I don't care enough about the TikTok account. I think it's fine. I think it' be fine Butm also I'm also very close to This is something Davis Sparks does Hving Claude do like customer service type tasks for his membership stuff So if someone needs to change their email or like reset their password He has his Robot do it. He has clawed do it The clloud 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'm not there yet, but I'm very close I'm very close to letting him do that It was really funny when when I had to do this, it came back and I was like, how many articles do you want me to do? Your archive is huge. Do you want me to just run a test Or do you want me to do it all? I mean I'm likeut up, you're a robot. Just do it. Like I don't care. But then it did. It opened a browser tab in brave. Yes. and this is the fit my favorite goes So I've run into a problem It seems like after a certain number of articles. then 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 and it did it It just like pulled all the data directly from the JSON for. You know what just kidding. I got it. It 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. But it did. it opened it up and you could, if I would have clicked over to that tab inrave, like I didn't start this task in brave. R. I started in cow workork and it just opened a tab and just did its little thing. And it's just amazing is amazing Js Tiny bit scary Mostly amazing.az But the benefits of this also Whatever. Lak m, your train might train on it. You're doing it anyway. It's publised. Its all the stuff is published. Like I don't, whatever. I do do you wish that anthropic would make a browser Itself? No, because extxtension is just so good. The clone extension is very good. So I ordered the other thing Cloud Day of the dayay, I ordered so we have a Barista Pro, one of the Bvill things and a rock went through the grinder and it didn't So it' so it still grinds That's not an uncommon thing when you're buying like beans. they're thing because when they sift them out, like you could have a rock that's roughly the same weight or the same size. 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 they're back ordered and they just never shipped. And so I opened my order status in Brave. And also back ordered and I just open the little and I say, Hey, here's the deal. This stuff is never shipped. Could you just find it for me And if you find it, will you just tell me where so I 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, hereere'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. it'll be in stock and you can ship by this dayate and it just did it That's And I had to buy something for my fridge, like the ice tray or whatever, like the ice maker I say, Hey, I takek a picture of the like the sticker inside with the model. I say, I I need a replacent just find it. Y just finds it. Yes finds it. 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