Welcome to the A16Z podcast. It's that time of year. Apple is hosting its annual developers conference,

WWDC. As a reminder, this is not when Apple releases all its shiny new hardware, but the focus is on

software. So we hear about updates to iOS, to OSX. This year, Apple announced Apple News and Apple

Music, plus something called proactive.

To take us through all of that is our own Benedict Evans.

Benedict, welcome.

Hello.

I just want to say at the front here, we're going to save Apple Music and News for the end.

So be patient.

We're going to pick it apart from beginning to end.

Benedict, where do we start? So I think it's interesting to contrast this with Google I.O.

So we have OSX, which is the platform that has about 80 million users. And there's some good

solid, sensible stuff in there.

Nothing kind of particularly mind-blowing.

Split screens.

Yeah, our colleague Steven Sinovsky said there was something in there that vaguely reminded him of something he's seen before.

Yes, something called Windows, maybe?

Yeah, exactly.

But, you know, that's the legacy platform.

That's not the platform of the future.

And then there's a platform with 7 or 800 million active devices, iOS.

And so we have iOS 9.

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