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What's on our WWDC wish list for software updates, Siri gets new voices, and what about automation on the Mac?

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Welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Robles, and joining me is my friend across the pond, William Gallagher. How are you doing, William?

Come, hello.

I'm mostly fine, but I'm afraid I've given up on you sending me an M1 Mac, so yeah, it's too late. I've gone on board one.

Oh, yes, and we will talk about that. But not only is my friend across the pond on here, Neil, you're joining us again for a three-way podcast here. What's up, Neil?

Hey, guys.

First of all, before we get to the big news of WWDC was announced, we're recording on April 1st, which is April Fool's Day, and listeners, I'm going to assure you now that we are not going to do any April Fool's jokes to you on this podcast, unlike all those other brands on Twitter.

I don't know how you guys feel about that.

I saw the whole controversy with Volkswagen and the Volkswagen thing, and I think it was one of those things that regular people who are not news reporters weren't understanding.

Behind the scenes, Volkswagen was explicitly lying to reporters and saying, no, we really are changing our name, and there's this unwritten code where it's like, you don't do that to reporters. You don't lie to them.

You say, yes, it's an April Fool's joke, and then everybody plays along, but yeah, they totally screwed the pooch on that one.

It's fake, because I've got a drama background, and in drama, actually, you quite like producers to lie to you about things you can explore some surprises.

And I'm not sure when it all started, but for tech companies to feel like they have to do something silly on April Fool's, I want to just issue a blanket statement.

You don't have to do it.

Just don't do it.

It's crazy.

Is it true that Gmail started as an April Fool's joke, but it was such a good idea that they did it anyway?

It was a Gmail feature. There was a, there was like a undue send that they did as an April Fool's joke one year.

It said, oh, I don't want to send that email. And people were like, actually, if you gave me like 30 seconds to change my mind, I wouldn't mind that.

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