Future Hardware and Closing Thoughts

Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi agentic AI, they already deployed one. It's called Chat Ccierge, and it's simplifying car shopping. Using self reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks, it doesn't just help buyers find a car they love, it helps schedule a test drive, get pre approved for financing estimate trade in value. Avanced, intuitive and deployed. That's how they stack That's technology at Capital One Welcome back to another episode of the Macroer S showow. It is WWDC week. what I don't know, we've been doing this for weeks, but like This is the definitive everything you need to know episode about what you can expect for WWDC And it's going to be a lot. So like you know, grab some food, snacks, whatever you need to, you know get ready for this episode because there's a lot of information. And then of course next week will be live from WWDC U or from Apple Park to discuss everything that did actually get announced. But before we do that, partly Good afternoon. How is your week off? Are you well rested and ready for WWDC now I am. I'm intrigued I think this is one of the most highly anticipated WWDCs that I can remember at least, pretty unique circumstances where we had so many of these features announced two years ago. They haven't emerged Last year prettyre low key affair Um with very little mention of AI or Apple intelligence. and we're expecting this year to be the complete opposite where we'll clloser look at everything that was initially announced. a huge amount more, seemingly. I mean, things have moved on a lot in the industry And it looks like Apple has a lot of features cl. So it's pretty exciting. I will say that what stands out to me about what we're going to discuss today is that It seems to be a focus on Apple intelligence and a focus on IOS. We know very little actually about the other platforms, very little about Vision OS iPad OS, watch OS and MacOS. there's a few rumors about some of these things, but everything seems to revolve around IOS and Aol intelligence, but A lot of those things are cross platform and Apple increasingly brings everything to all platforms. But I guess for the purposes of when we're talking about it, we're talking about it in the context of IOS twenty seven Yeah, I mean, it almost feels like I haven't heard about any other feature for not only all of the other platforms, but IOS, I haven't heard of any other non SI related or Apple intelligence related. There's been a few sprinkled in. We've even had some things about the foldable and like how apps would work with larger displays. you know, that's kind of how Apple's probably going to hide the foldable stuff We've seen some of those things pop up, but like otherwise, I don't know off the top of my head I can't think of anything that's non Si AI, Apple intelligence kind of thing. So obviously that is a big focus of this. It's first time in a while. I mean, last year it was pretty much all the redesign and some of the new features that you got there with very little AI, like you said This is this is the completely, you know, different direction. So we're going to start off with Siri because That's going to be a main star of the show here. I mean, we saw what? wasas it Jaw' tweet on Monday that said all systems glow and they had the glow animation. You know, we got to do this. That's obviously Si and the new kind of seery glow that we're going to get U And it's got its own app So how do you feel about a dedicated SI app basically trying to match ChatyBT Claude and you know all the other ones out there I think it needs to happen I think it's the best and simplest way actually to convey to users, especially ordinary daily users that are increasingly relying on chatpots or experimenting with chatpots to really understand that SyriI is a competitor to those or will be If it remained at the system level, I think it would be pretty easy to forget about it. But if it is an icon there, right on your home screen That makes it very clear that this is something different and this is something that stands up to those other apps that you may have installed. And If there are new capabilities here, if they're just tucked away in Syria and the system as they are today it'd be very easy to forget about them, but if this is something that you're encouraged to go and engage with and actually has a dedicated interface where right now you can't linger on Sira. you can't kind of go into Siri per se and look at features that are available Whas this will be a fully fledged app with its own UI, there will be suggested questions in there There will be a list of conversations just like you have in these other apps u and a conversation history All of that stuff will be available in there for you to engage with and pick up on previous conversations very similar to these existing apps. So I think it does make perfect sense. and of course that can be pretty much across all OSs as well. I'm hoping we're going to get that same Syria onn the Mac on the iPad. I don't know whether we'll get it on the Apple Watch or Vision OS or TVOS, but certainly there is going to be a lot more influence and presence for Syria across the systems Absolutely U MacOS is where I am extremely interested in Siri because of, you know, what it could do from a system level on your Mac and can it you out with a lot of complex tasks and And you know, we talked about like what Cloud code can do and just like the coworking stuff it has where it can manage my folders and do all that. Like I'm hoping one day it gets to that. I don't know how quickly that will happen We've heard some rumors and things about what it can do with certain files and all of that Um So it'll be interesting to see it for sure. I think we've seen some replicated screenshots, which are also nice kind of gives you an idea of what it would look like. It does seem pretty basic I mean, we don't really need a whole lot, I think Well, these kind of chatbot apps are quite simple. If you ignore the coding capabilities that are available in some of the apps, which there are no rumors about Siri getting anything like that. I think that's for next year. that's for way further out Chatort apps are really simple. It's just a messages feed effectively with a conversation history. And this is no different to that other than, I think Apple is obviously very good at design So These are very nicely designed Cards Every looks extremely polished, even in these Mk screenshots Where things start to get more interesting is with the direct system integration outside this app. So Siri is also going to be replacing spotlights Yeah, that's more directly Um and we can expect much better kind of Siri suggestions where this is what makes Siri unique And this is what we were originally pitched in the first place, because This is actually an Apple system level AI. It has access to your calendar, to your iMessages, to your email You don't need to go and hook all of those things up in the same way that you would with something like Claude. and It can actually go deeper than that because it can just read your ee messages and your reminders and everything by default present this much more comprehensive view of your personal context at that time. And so if you swipe down into a control center, not control center. if you swipe down into U Butotlights you will get much better suggestions. And it's actually pretty funny, I've just confused control center for Siri because that's one of the rumored changes that we're going to get some changes to the navigation up there at the top of the screen So right now Everyone will get very used to swiping down on the sort of middle to the right of the display will bring down control center. It will bring down notification center and then swiping down on the So is that swiping down on the left? swiping down on the right will bring down control center That is going to change. So it will be The left will be notification center The center will be for series spotlights And then the top right will be for control center. So that may be a little bit confusing and frustrating if right now you're used to kind of swiping down on the dynamic island or the notch. to get to your notifications, you won't be able to do that anymore. I guess I never do that. So this is notot new to me at all. Like it's always been top left for notification center. It's always been top right But you're saying that now if you went in the middle, which usually kind of took over, so it was like from left to center You could do notification Right now if you swipe down in the middle of your display, you will bring down the notification centor see, I always swipe down from the middle of my display, but I do it in the very middle of the phone and that's how I get to spotlight. That's like my most used thing I swipe down in the middle. like the very middle of the cent I know what you mean, notot the top middle, but like the very middle. I have never once tried to reach up that high to swipe in the middle. On thing I ever really do is go in the corners for notification. That would be It's not to be a huge difference. This will be the askk feature So this is something slightly different. This won't present suggestions per se. This will actually provide you with an opportunity to just type a question in there. The idea being that maybe the kinds of questions that you may quickly throw into Chiao ChPT For that you can get to that very quickly and may prevent you using Safari quite so much or needing to use it, I should say I was going to say, so that might bother me then because I usually do that as swipe down, search for an app and open it that way kind of thing. You know, like or search for something like Spotlight you can still do that in the middle of the display, but I ye it'sest But it's the top middle of the display, right Yes Yeah, that that's what's going to screw me up. So I didn't care about the notification part and all that. It's the fact that I never go to the top middle of the screen because you don't have to do that currently. But now that my normal behavior of from the very center of the screen swiping down brings up search or askk, which I am very intrigued about, by the way. I think that's the most interesting thing about all of this That's going to bother me, but you know, I'll get used to it at some point And of course, we're expecting some nice new animations as well. So we're expecting a sort of pill shaped animation in the dynamic island that will glow when you're searching or you're asking a question. And as we've said before, I think the Dynamic island is the perfect place for this kind of interaction U So interesting to just wonder how that's going work on a Yeah, that's what it was going to say. how it's going to work on an older device with a notch because we've still got that with the iPhone sixteen E seventeen E N device is still very much around. I'm guessing it'll just card coming down from the top. Yeah.' look. I don't they'll love that. I don't think we have to overthink it, but I look as polished Right because if everything is expanding from the dynamic island and it makes the Dynamic island feel like a much more present AI interface. Um, where Often it like if it's conducting a task in the background, you've asked Siri a complex question, it's going and fetching stuff from the web and you're doing that in an app That's where you want to see that in the dynamic island seeing that it's just working on it in the background Current AI services actually don't do that, and that is a bit of a miss trick that there's no live activity So I think this is a way to make it just feel a little bit more well integrated This is where Apple can shine. I mean, I don't think that There's no way that this version of Syria is going to be as good as some of what we have come to expect from the capabilities of Claude, JadGT, and Gemini U But I don't think it's trying to do the exact same thing. It is trying to provide you with richer personal context and a much more sort of fluid Um experience because it is integrated at the system level and There is something somewhat clunky. We've all experienced this of going into an AI app and kind of having to remember subconsciously go into that app navigate around it If it's doing something in the background, then swipe down on notification center, check if it's completed. Sometimes there's a bit of delay, The notification pops in afterwards feels very self contained This will be very different if it really does feel like it is a kind of omnipresent feature, especially providing you with suggestions. you know, we've talked for years about how we want better suggestions on the iPhone. U We've had stauff like I don't know, widget stacks and things like that that should be able to do that kind of thing, but it hasn't got close. I want to be able to go into spotlight or whver spotlight will become. And it will surface things like recent messages that I've received along and will understand that if I'm leeaving Sou based on my calendar to surface weather and travel information based on that It kind of feels like what we've been promised for years but never quite had delivered Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi agentic AI, they already deployed one. It's called Chat Ccierge, and it's simplifying car shopping. Using self reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks, it doesn't just help buyers find a car they love, it helps schedule a test drive, get pre approved for financing estimate trade in value. Avanced, intuitive, and deployed. That's how they stack That's technology at Capital One Yeah It'll be interesting to see how all of that works out. The one thing that I don't get though, which seems very un like, but has been rumored for a while is that When you do this, when you initiate the search or ask feature, you can switch over to a third party AI service. So if you want to use chat GPT, you can. It makes sense from a perspective of like, okay, I know that right now the phone and your operating system integrates with Chat GPT. That's because we don't have anything right now. But now Apple is putting out a Siri chatbot app, you know, overhauling Siri, making it a competitor And yeah, it might be a little behind, but like if Apple truly believes in this Like Why are they giving you the ability to change it? Like wouldn't they want you to use this specific thing for you I just it's weird to me. I feel like this would definitely be something in the past where Apple would just. I don't know. I think're going to use our. I think it's I think it's quite ingenious because Right now, no one's using Siri And people are using other services So if there is an easier way to access those other services, you can kind of push Siri to those users through the back door Um Be right now if I always go into Fward U never touching Syrii unless I'm controlling my lights with my home port mini If I know that I can swipe down on the dynamic island and I can get access to Claude then I don't need to go in the Claud app, but then it might just start pushing me to use Siri at the same time because Siri will be right there And me just It gets used to the interactions. I think it's quite smart considering that they are They are behind in this race and they need to kind of tempt you to use their features by making it easier to use the features of their rivals And also there's an antitrust element to this where Apple's under so much scrutiny now around the world for gatekeeping features and I think that it knows that can't be quite as closed off as it was able to be years ago. and it is good from a regulatory perspective if it can go to the European Union and say Well, look at how we make our features available to all AI services in this rapidly growing area, we're such a an open company. Totally fine. and I'm not okay, let me rephrase this. I'm not mad about it. I don't care. like I will use whatever one I want to use and I would like everybody else to be able to use whatever. It seems strange because past behavior, Apple would never do this. You bring up a good point that they have to start doing this a little more or give the perception, you know because of the whole regular makes sense. But why are they making it so easy to do it? Most people don't go into Let me rephrase I feel like most people will not go into the setettings app or go search for how to make that the default. Okay? A lot of the people that I know that use their phone U Even if they are just kind of dabbling into AI are not going to know where to go or look or want to do that. So they'll just use what's presented to them So the fact that you make it so easy to just in that search or askk feature to switch ust it's surprising to me. Like I understand that they they're going to have to make it available and make you give you the ability. But go, you know, for the longest time when we finally got the ability to switch to a third party email app That's still hard to change now. That's not an easy change It's not something that you can easily set as the default mail. You have to go and find it. And I bet you most people don't know where to go and the search settings Searching in settings isn't very good anyways. so like It's hard to find. so I'm just surprised that they're making it that easy, but I'm not mad about it. It's just, you know, just another thing that I noticed. If all of these rumors are true, of course, we have to kind of put the alleged It's good for users There was kind of a groundwork laid for this kind of thing with ChanyBT integration when we first got it because The way that it is presented to get ChGBT in Siri almost as like you're waiting for other services to pop up there in settings. It's almost like they And when they pitched Apple intntelligenceces kindind of a layer to plug in other services um It kind of seems like this was always the idea from the beginning in one way or another Um mayaybe it just looks like they're making it particularly accessible. and it's all good for users Yeah, for sure, particularly with individual features because Sometimes you do want to use one service over another. I mean, we did see this, I think it was with Image Playground where when Image Playground launched, it was only Apple's models. and then WWBC last year, they opened that up to be that you could use ChacyBT's image models, which are way better than Apples'. I mean, it's no competition If that continues to expand and you can access Gemini in there Suddenly you bought this that serves as this hub to generate images from whatever service you want, which is actually a a lot more intuitive than different apps that provide slightly different capabilities and different strengths, it's better to think, okay, well, here's the writing tool and I can choose which service I want to use specifically for writing in that moment. And then when I've got an inquiry I can just use whatever service I want over there. and it's very, very easy to switch between them And you can because now there's a new extensions feature that Apple is offering. We've talked about how it's going to integrate and search or ask, but also just Like you just said, in writing tools, in immage Bground, in Apple Intelligence features, and others that might come down the line, you knowry saafari extensions in the A store will now get used to AI extensions, I guess. I don't really know what it's going to be called, but it's going to apparently have a dedicated extension section in the app store. kind of acting as a marketplace for all of your AI integration. So if there's evenven ones that we don't mention regularly. I don't know. do some of those u what was the the hot AI ot like two years ago that everybody was using. It's got like a whale on it. I can't remember. Oh deeep Sk. Yeahah, do people still use that I'm so out of the have no idea. Is that even a thing anymore? But if it is Yeah maybe Yeah, then you can probably tie that in maybe. I don't know. But like it looks like there's going to be you know, a bunch of integrations and a new core AI framework for developers so they can start adding these in to some of these third party apps. And yeah, I mean, Siri is going to be a huge deal. It's going to be I don't know. if the keynote's two hours, it's going be a thirtycent to forty percent probably of the entire fifty percent of the entire keynote Would you agree Quite easily. Yeah. And it's because a lot of these integrations are across a system. So one of the things is that there will be a kind of Siri button across first party apps So whether you think about that as a feature within those apps or a seri feature. It's all kind of the way this is getting marketed as a much more kind of overall thing There are also features like Siri will actually be able to finally search the web for you just like all of these other services can do. But that's a big deal No finally you're not going to be told to you know go results on your iPhone Yeah. I have pulled up soults on your iPhone And also it will do multip part questions we have never really been able to do before. I mean, they kind of said you could do it a little bit last year, but U I can that will make a huge difference if you can do that, particularly with Basically there's like smart home inquiries Let's just quickly jump through some of the things that we know Siri and you know someome of these new AI Apple intelligence features are going to be across some of the apps because like the camera app pse, for example, Um Like you said, there's going to be a Siri button. so there's going to be a new Siri mode potentially in the camera app U just kind of added alongside the bottom there where like you see photo, video, portrait, panorama, etcetera U, And I guess this is going to replace what visual intelligence on camera control, Is that right Yeahes, so I think it's trying to consolidate everything under the Siri brand. So this will be a Siri lens for or Siri mode for the camera app, but that is basically the same thing as visual intelligence. I don't think there's going to be a meaningful difference. It's just kind of Changing its location. Just changable name. Think about visual intelligence right now because it's so tucked to where you have to consciously remember to use it. Putting it in the camera app does make sense Well What's worth bringing up though, is that if Siri is new and improved, like how much better does this mode become Is it become like Gemini mode where you can literally show it things and likeike have a full blown conversation with it, like in real time, I forget a while ago was There was an ad for that where you could have a conversation fixing a bike. Like some guy was like showing how to replace stuff on a bicycle and just keeping it up propped up and having it look at what you're doing and it's offering you step by step directions. like are we going to be able to get to that? Is that something that comes later on? and it' just mean Yeah. the other key piece that we've not talked about really is that this is based on Gemini Apple is licensed Gemini model. So anything that Gemini can do, we would hope that the next generation of Siri will be able to because it's using the same underlying technology. One new thing we know with Visual intelligence is that you can scan food nutrition labels for calorie and macronutrients tracking. The Health app seemingly is going to get a little bit of an overhaul or at least a new section for this kind of stuff So you don't really need to rely on third party apps. I don't know how good it's going to be U there are some good third party apps out there that already do like an AI kind of take a look at my plate. this is what I've got going on situation. Like guess how much protein and calories and all of that that I'm getting out of it That would be super helpful. likeike that would make me actually use the health app more I don't know. what about you I think it would be really useful. I mean, we've been able to get H it information about diet and nutrition in the health app because they are available via Health gets to add information, but Ale's never really provided anything. And AI is really the best thing for calorie tracking. nutrient tracking because it's so complicated. there's so many elements to it. and just go straight into visual intelligence or Siri and just point it at whatever I'm meeting and it just automatically logs to the health app that would remove a lot of friction Absolutely Assuming that it's accurate. I mean, it's kind of one of those things where it's like How good is it at guessing weight of what you're eating, the dens like you know, that's the kind of stuff. But at least if it gets you in the right ballpark, I'd be happy with that Um You know, you can kind of already do the like scan phone numbers and addresses and stuff, but I guess it's going to expand on that So there's going to be some new things for the camera for visual intelligence specifically. In the Potos app, we're expecting some good tweaks. I mean extend, reframe and enhance are kind of the big three things that we've heard. lookooks like now we're getting the ability to like generative edit, right? So if you need more It like, if you're cropping in and you know, or messing around with the framing of your photo, it can then generate additional kind of filler for that image, which Samsung has had for a while, but that it looks like it's Apple's turn to kind of catch up there Um I mean, I don't know. a lot of these tweaks sound good. Is this stuff that like I don't know what I still feel like Photo Mater we still need to see some of those features. I don't think they had a lot of AI stuff before, but they probably did have a lot of these. They have seems like Like likeL expand like you could you could increase the resolution. I think it was ML super resolution. which was a pretty good feature. Things like that would be nice to see Apple's always been, I think, reluctant to engage with AI, image generation and image augmentation as much as many of its rivals because there's a lot more there are a lot more ethical questions around that And it does produce great camera hardware. and I think it feels kind of reluctant about saying, You don't need to take such a great image because we'll just generate it afterwards. But I think the extend feature that's rumored does fit quite nicely with what Apple is saying. It's not saying don't take a great picture It's encouraging you to take a great picture, but if you just want to change the framing a little bit, you can go ahead and do that. That is a feature I will definitely use Absolutely And the enhanced one, sometimes you want your image to look better, but you're not exactly sure what you need to adjust. Is it exposure? Is it saturation? Do you need to fine tune the like A I'd figure that out for you. It's most likely going to do a pretty decent job h So there's going to be that enhanced kind of AI auto tweak where it will adjust parameters like color and lighting and all of that. So that's pretty nice. And all of those tools will join cleanup, which hopefully cleanup gets a little bit better because That one's I mean, it's good for specific things, but it could be better. It's good for like small parts of a photo. It's not very good for larger replacement I actually think the kind of thing that was pitched with it that you could remove a person from the back of the frame, it does that terribly But if it comes to, I don't know, like There's like trash on the floor in your image. L you can get rid of that, but you're going to struggle to get rid of a car or something that is large. in the events So it would be nice to see that improved U let's see shortcuts. This is kind of a big one because I think a lot of people, myself included sometimes, just re pretty intimidated by shortcuts. I'm not going in there and trying to spend all day figuring out what kind of shortcuts I would want. I would like to use them. And there's a lot of good resources out there. If you have the time, you should definitely look up some YouTube videos And there's some good articles out there where they make the shortcuts for you, something that you might be looking for. and then all you have to do is just touch the link and save it to your phone. it's a two second process and then you have that shortcut But what if you could just naturally tell Siri? or however this is going to work, I'm guessing it'll be Siri U Make me a shortcut that does X, Y and Z withith this specific app and most likely we would assume third party apps would be integrated with this as well at some point And it does it. And you don't have to do a single thing inside of the menu options and create it yourself That is huge and that is kind of the rumor here is natural language shortcut creation Describe what you want and it'll build it out for you step by step, which is huge. And I hope it works really well because I will be doing that quite a bit. Yes, this has been rumored for years. I think it will be one of the more useful features and probably something that they give quite a bit of attention to because it should be pretty impressive, especially if you can actually see it, build that shortcut in real time. It makes for a good demo. Yeah. I can't wait for this. I can't wait for all these demos. This is always my favorite my favorite event because software is what youre I mean, the hardware get new hardware is fun. Okaykay? But That's that hardware is cool for like thirty seconds. and then you're like, okay, at the end of the day, this is still a normal phone unless you have a foldable or something At the end of the day, this is just still a Mac. and what powers all of that The software, you need good software and you need good features. and this is where things can change and make your device feel fresh and new on a regular basis without having to buy new looking and hardware And so this stuff I get excited for. Um Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi agentic AI, they already deployed one. It's called Chat Concierge, and it's simplifying car shopping. Using self reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks, it doesn't just help buyers find a car they love, it helps schedule a test drive, get pre approved for financing and estimate trade in value. Advanced, intuitive and deployed. That's how they stack That's technology at Capital One Yeah, I don't know about writing tools in the keyboard. I mean, if the keyboard just gets better. Yeah. I mean, that's not that's not so compelling. But right now writing tools very hidden. There have been occasions when I wants to use like the deeper grammar and spell chehecker or if wants to change the tone of something or I can't get to writing tools. It's very buried. You have to do a long p. it's kind of hidden where a copy and paste is and you have to navigate along If it's actually integrated in the keyboard itself, I think that makes the most sense. Especially if you're on the go, you need to draft a longer email or something, you don't want to actually be sitting there That is something where I'm using a prompt would make a lot of sense. And you can do that right now, but it's so so b So hidden, especially the actual menus are kind of the text box to actually type in your complete promptter instruction U so That also, yes, makes a lot of sense Id really you put a freed Yeah, I just want the proofread button right there so that I don't have to go and find it and I can just not look like an idiot with my grammar sometimes, you know? Like I just want it to be fixed. donon't rewrite it. I just just fix what I did and that's it All of these features are being surfaced a lot more. I think that's the theme that runs through all of this There are some features that are actually not AI driven We probably should talk about some of those. So they in w that's possible It is possible. There are not that many, but we have heard some rumors about just a few of them One of them is the camera app The camera app is getting a complete overhaul. where people be fully customizable So this is designed to appeal to professional photographers and videographers, which Apple has lent into a lot in recent years, especially as the iPhone has become more capable. I mean, Apple now itself shoots sports games for Apple TV plus or Apple TV now Aacebo using the iPhone, it uses them to shoot Apple events I mean, even last year when we recorded This very podcast, at Apple Park, they had switched over over the last two years from professional cpper equipment using the iPhone So we're seeing this all over the place, but something that a lot of professional photographers and videographers have complained about is the limitations of the default camera app where maybe if you're a professional, you don't want the live photos button or whatever it may be right there. You want different controls. You want to be able to get access to those more granular specific things that you want to use in the places that you want to use them. It's felt a little strange that for years The iPhone's camera app has been just as static as a as like a DSLR that you can't really customize the exact way to do that when the whole point of an iPhone in the way that Steve Jobs initially unveiled it is that those buttons don't have fixed places It's It's pretty incredible that this hasn't happened before, but from now on it will be like widgets, so you can customize it just like a home screen There'll be a drawer that comes up full of all of the different controls and you can pin the ones that you want there in the locations. that you actually want them in. So if you're a user that doesn't want to over compomplicate the camera app, you can remove stuff that you don't want But that goes right the way up to if you're a pro user. So I think that is actually a pretty significant change. That is big. U Safari looks like I'm trying to find the features that are not that are not AI. So Safari, newew startart page with four tabs, favorites, bookmarks, reading lists and history. So're just another simplifying kind of everything, which I do enjoy just like, let's clean it up U You can organize tabs automatically based on behavior and auto naming of tabs based on your tab contents, which is actually pretty nice. Do you use group tabs? I don't know that I Not really. I have a problem with having to gu out anyway. So yeah, that's me That's me until Safari crashes eventually Maybe it would be good to do it. and this might be an, I don't know, is this an AI feature? like that it just automatically reads what you have and I could not as an AI feature. You bet r that as an AI feature. but listen There are other things here. so there's some features for the wallet app that sound quite interesting. You'll be able to create a pass from a QR code for the first time Which again is how do we not have this already? You can do this with third Parsy apps U even going back to when it was past book you could not just create Pas from a QR code. And there are plenty of times when You do receive a QR code or a barcode or something for an event it is not available as an actual Apple wallet pass, you know, things for like concerts or the theater. Very often those will be emailed to you in a PDF. but not actually available in the Wallet apppple. The idea being that now You can, I suppose, if it's emailed to you in a PDF, you can use visual intelligence with on screen awareness and create a pass, or if it's something you've received physically or in any other format, you can just scan that QR code Say I don't know you're doing a return of some items in the mail and you need a QR code to do that. Well, now you can just add it to your wallet. so it's right there available Very simple feature, something that will be very useful. That is good. like So I'm just thinking about that Amazon started doing that recently. We like for some specific locations, like I don't know what it would be for you, but like for me here Staples is a store that I can go into and drop off most Amazon returns And u It makes it's just based on QR codes, but now it started being an add to Apple wallet pass, which is nice But if I go to like a more traditional UPS drop off It's QR code based for the most part, unless you run into those random ones where you still got to print the label, but like It's a QR code, but you can't add it to Apple Wallet. But now that would be a useful thing because I run into this situation a lot where the locations of these stores is kind of a dead zone. So if I want to go into the Amazon app, it doesn't work constantly like that that becomes a problem. So I can also if you get these things over email, then when you're like trying to get to it, you can't find the email it's annoying Yeah. so that really helps. It's a tiny thing, but it's I think it's useful. You can also color code them as well So that makes them much easier if you've got a bunch of them And there will also be a bill splitting feature for Apple Cashe. so you can take a photo of a receipt, you assign the items on that receipts to the individuals who had them, it will total everything up automatically and then you can conduct that transaction between you and the group of people you're with using Apple Cash That'd be cool if that can like figure out a way to be, you know, AI based where I just u tootal it up This is this item, you know, pizza and water and bottle of I don't know, whatever. This is for John and these are for Jim. And then like immediately, it goes near contacts, knows who those people or like, you know, you can tap on the name and then it sends a request for Apple Cach. L that would be super helpful That would be the kind of stuff that Id worry. Maybe you can just ask make a shortcut or something, you know When I when I take a scan of this image and start to divide the stuff, like immediately send it to the person that it belongs to or like bring up a prompt or something, I don't know. There's ways that you can get creative for you Yeah, that'd be cool. And We're also expecting new features for AirPods So we're expecting a revamped dedicated settings menu Because right now if you do want to change AirPod settings, you have to either go into sub menus in Crol Center where they're quite limited, or you have to go into the settings app when your AirPods are connected and you can, I don't know, you can change the balance or whatever you want to do there. So I think that Apple is stopping short of actually making an AirPods app. But it looks like it's getting a little bit closer to that. where everything should be laid out much more simply because it is buried on the occasion you do want to go and adjust something with your Pods. and maybe there will be more adjustment there We're expecting other things like hearing health to be much more prominent within that because if you want to do that right now and take a hearing test, I have to go for a second but how I get to that? I think, o okay, that must be is that the health app? Is that where I go for it orr do I need to go into settings to find that going sos and that's the funny part is that like ye It makes sense for this to be much easier to access And then there is also another one that's quite interesting is the ability to set alternatives to airplay. so you'll get access for to like Google cast now, you can set that as a default instead of airplay at least in the European Union. I was going to say, is that likely a you all out there thing or is that a You know, Well, I don't know I don't know about I don't know about in the UK, but certainly in the EU. and it wouldn't support closer to the EU than I am. so I'm just generalizing. true location. It could also It wouldn't surprise me if it was just everywhere because gets difficult to argue these things if they are split across different territories where clearly they are not causing a huge difference. I mean, I understand with third party app stores I don't know, With a feature like this, it seems pretty harmless U U All right, let's kind of wrap up IOS twenty seven and go into some of the like The smaller things that we do know about some of these other ones, like we can start with MacOS twenty seven Um This is is this the first one that's going to be Apple Silicon only Yes. The first update re prettytty big We haven't really talked about that or I haven't really seen a lot about this. So there will be no it will also be the final this version to include Rosetta So if you still are relying on Intel apps running through that layer and they work great. you won't even really notice any difference. So you probably won't even necessarily know if you're using it untilab, but those days are numbered now Yeah, that's disappointing. Um So this brings it to what the sixteen inch MacBook Pro twenty nineteen Basically if yeah, if you just if you don't have anything with an M chip, you should know if you do. you're not going to get this update I guess, which is Kind of big. So my mac pro that' sitting right here, especially paperwight We are now expecting these AI features, which Many of them do run on device, depend on the neural engine, depend on having a lot of access to memory. While pllenty is sense to the cloud Apple is prioritizing a lot of on device tasks and has worked on sort of compacting these large Google models down so that some tasks can run Natively on the device You know, an old like, twenty nineteen Intel Mac is not going to do that very nicely. So it is time Yeah All the Siri and Apple intelligence upgrades that are on IOS, we can pretty much expect on MacOS, correct Pretty much. I mean, you won't get such easy access to maybe like the askk feature by swiping down because there is no capability to do that But certainly, we've got to get you're guessing Would that be command, would that just replace Spotlight on your Mac? or would that be a part of it I think it would probably have to be a part of Spotlight, but I don't know the integration will be quite as comprehensive as it is on the iPhone. ' because it's older hardware as well. I mean, Apple Intelligence will only run on an iPhone fifteen P or newer U It won't even run on an iPhone fifteen a fifteen pro specifically on Ua. This has got to run on M one So I can't see it being quite as comprehensive as on the iPhone and It feels like the Mac is a bit of an afterthought anyway with some of these features So yeah, we'll get it. What do you know what do we be that Yeah What do we what do we name it though? the possibility is big bear You think that's the one? not I'm not sure about that. There's also a rumor about Emerald, but Well that'll be interesting That doesn't usually flow with the last few, you know No, I mean, they usually place names So s This is a place that I just don't know of, but I'm just thinking of the color and the stone, you know. But like well we are I guess it's kind of Gossy, it's liquid gloss leaning into that a little. I don't Maybe we're moving on. Yeah. you know, I just what I do know is that we're going to get that crack marketing team line from from Craig and I'm going to cringe reallyally hard because I'm very sick of that whole skit, but we're definitely going. I'm over it now. Maybe I'm a killjoy, but I'm over it. think I think I yeah I think that joke was literally from like twenty fourteen and it's happened every single year since then. I think they're making Craig unlikeable and they have to stop because I do think he's a generally good guy and like They're they're doing they're giving him too much of this and it's like, you just stop man. just Just say no, you don't have to keep doing all this. We do we like you. It's good, okay But like you're making it, you're making it hard for me to like them again Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi agentic AI, they already deployed one. It's called Chat Ccierge, and it's simplifying car shopping. Using self reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks, it doesn't just help buyers find a car they love, it helps schedule a test drive, get pre approved for financing estimate trade in value. Avanced, intuitive and deployed. That's how they stack That's technology at Capital One Um I'm looking at all the rest of this stuff, man. there's just really not a whole lot. But what we can ask and here's the major question Home OS. Do we get to see this? Do we finally get this I am going if I had to choose, I would say no But u I think that if we were to see hardware I think that this is the piece of hardware that would make the most sense to show because it is a device that is dependent on the next generation version of Siri. And of course, that is what is going to dominate this event Um So it would not And also it's They're not going to unveil something that is going to replace a current device where the current device on sale and yet they can't ship it for a while. But this is not going to replace anything, this smart home hub So just like the homeome pod was unveiled at WWDC back in twenty seventeen There would be nothing stopping them unveiling this device saying, look at all of these AI features that will run on it and how exciting and new that will be. And then this product will arrive later in the fall Yeah if they did want to provide a teaser, this probably would be the hardware product that would make the most sense to do that with And that would be a good time for them to also just be like, And this new series is going to come to the Home pod and you know, we have new updates coming alongside the brand new whatever they call the home hub later this fall. Like that's a good time to do that. So everybody stops asking me when there's going to be a damn update to the homeome pod. Okaykay? It's When Siri comes, it's going to be in September And we're moving on we're moving on and the and the Apple TV for that matter, I'm guessing is also just waiting. so That'll be the time to say it They won't. And then I could just keep making the same video on it every single day Now When will Apple TV be ready? It It's coming later this year guys. It'll be in September. or later opefully it's next year. We're just going to keep kicking the can down the road. But I mean, yeah, I really want to see it. I hope they do it. I'm also kind of pessimistic about whether that's going to be at WWDC To be honest, this could be an entirely new event in and of itself later in the year if they really wanted to I don't see why we need to go do all that. Just do it now. Um One other thing that we could see. I don't think they're going to at all address it but you could see maybe in like, I don't even think they'll bring this. do you think they'll even bring this up at the keynote? My guess is no, but maybe in those like extra features list that you get later on where you kind of look at the additional features on the IOS twenty seven home page, they show all the big ones and then there's like a whole big ass list of all the other stuff Fable iPhone, it's not going to be labeled as that, but you're going see system like the split screen stuff. That was kind of big. Maybe they do show that Do you think they would show that I would be shocked if they did Some of the things I didn't fully look into like this was a couple of days ago. We saw like system level split screen and some people were thinking that this could be more so not just on the foldable iPhone but on like a normal iPhone that you can get. I think that yeah, so right now, the iPhone doesn't handle landscape apps very well. But of course, if it If there is a foldable iPhone coming where you're going to be looking at apps effectively in a landscape view a lot of the time The landscape views need to get better on the iPhone in general. So there is there is a possibility that they may talk about in the state of the Union or something in a more buried way how developers can optimize their apps for a landscape view and unifying that design language bringing some things over from the iPad, making things sort of more dynamically resizable in landscappe That would all make sense without actually mentioning a foldable Mmhm. But I don't even care about the foldable for this specific thing Look at my phone s great that it can be adjusted. I'm envisioning the iPad slider for split screen where you can slide it around and adjust it in this mode. That's great Let me turn it this way. and let me adjust vertically because that is where in my opinion, it makes the most sense on phones of this size I want a vertical split screen Every other phone that's not named Apple pretty much has this Why can't we have it too It would be great to have you know A full half of your screen is a video and I got messages below it or I've got messages and email stacked on top of each other and I can reference both of those things at the same time and not have to swipe between the apps If you're going to go through the level of, you know can do it in landscape. whyy can't I just flip it this way and do the same thing? That's where I was kind of getting excited about. and I think a lot of other people were getting excited about that possibility like I'm not going to use it in landscape, but I would use it vertically, would you I definitely would. I would really like that feature. So giveive us what we want, Apple. C comeome on. The foldable is going to open the door to those kinds of interactions in the long run, I think Okay. I but That's where I can, you know, I don't think they'll bring this up at all, but if they do That would be cool. I'd be pretty happy about that They're like, oh yeah, by the way we're adding split screen to the iPhone. so if you want to in both vertical and landscape, and this will be you know, it'll adjust for all sorts of display sizes. and that'll be their little subtle notodge to the whole foldable iPhone stuff But also, you know, your proro Max could be more useful cera Vision OS. I know we've seen some accessibility things already for a lot of the platforms. There could be some accessibility stuff there. U Obviously, we're expecting Siri to be on. the Vision Pro and that could make that device a lot more useful. You'd certainly hope so. It's difficult for me to be too excited about the Vision Pro right now, but there's got to be something in there This is the first major update to VisionOS since that new had said Rs released. so There's a lot more capability there with the M five chip I don't I don't know. What else could we could do with that? I mean, I'm not a huge AR VR enthusiast. Some people absolutely love the Vision Pro. I'm sure those people would be able to to tell us what would be most likely to be in the next version of Vision OS But like All of the same feature parody for Siri came to You know Division Pro, wouldn't that make this a pretty massive upgrade Oh, I definitely would do I would just be surprised if that happened. I think you'll get the most on iOS and on iPad OS as a result, then probably the next most on the Mac then maybe the next most on the Apple Watch Um, and then VisionOS is the last The last thing, I mean, every major Vision OS update we've seen has been quite small. Even Vision OS two is small. Re real quick, you mentioned WOS. we do have a couple of the notes here. improved heart rate tracking U new watch faces. You know what? That's where we talked about this before or at least I mentioned it. Can we can we get an AI generated Si watch even if it doesn't happen on the watch itself