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The Talk Show With John Gruber

224: ‘AirPower, What’s That?’ With Serenity Caldwell

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Serenity Caldwell returns to the show for a post-WWDC wrap-up discussion. Topics include iOS 12, Memoji, Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, Apple Books, MacOS 10.14 Mojave, dark mode, UIKit apps on the Mac, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I just got a Mojave alert from Skype asking me to use my microphone, so hopefully it actually works.

0:07.0

You're doing this on Mojave.

0:10.0

You know what they say about what doesn't kill you and makes you stronger?

0:16.0

You are very brave.

0:19.0

I do have Mojave installed, but I have an installed on an external USB drive for my iMac.

0:25.0

That was the smart way to go about things. Honestly, it's been pretty solid.

0:28.0

It is? I just wanted to. Yeah. It and iOS 12 both have been impressed.

0:33.0

I think there is something to the sort of a focus on bug fixed ability type stuff.

0:41.0

I mean, both, you know, Federickey set it on stage at WWDC for iOS.

0:46.0

It was the first thing he mentioned about iOS 12.

0:49.0

Yeah.

0:50.0

But German had a leaked sort of engineering staff meeting from months ago where this was brought up.

0:58.0

And I think it kind of shows in these betas, especially the fact that both of them are both Mac and iOS or both sort of universally held up as far as I can tell as some of the most stable WWDC betas in memory.

1:14.0

Yeah. I mean, I can definitely attest to that. I consider.

1:18.0

I don't know how long have you been running betas on your phone?

1:21.0

Because I feel like I've been doing it at least since 2012, 2011.

1:26.0

And usually it's like the first month just sucks.

1:30.0

Yeah.

1:31.0

You just say goodbye to that phone really working in the interest of playing around or in, you know, in our case, writing about new features.

1:40.0

Well, and the WWDC build ones are a bad for off notoriously bad for two reasons. One, it's they're the first ones that come outside Apple.

1:48.0

And second, there's a hard and fast date.

1:50.0

They have to what we're at at some point.

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