Arrested Developer Event
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4.1 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference is normally an energetic, bustling affair. This year, of course, things are anything but normal. Instead of live talks in front of full crowds and attendees mingling face to face, WWDC was a virtual-only experience. During the keynote address, execs rattled off their announcements in pre-recorded video segments filmed on a very empty Apple campus. The slick, occasionally eerie production was a glimpse into just how lonely the tech world has become.
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior associate editor Julian Chokkattu joins us to talk about everything Apple announced and what this very weird WWDC means for the future of the tech conference.
Show Notes:
Check out everything Apple announced at WWDC here. Read Julian’s breakdown of all the new features of iOS 14 coming soon to an iPhone near you here. Also read Julian’s guide to everything you need to work from home here.
Recommendations:
Julian recommends the Post-it Flex Write Surface. Lauren recommends the episode of 9to5 Mac’s Watchtime podcast with Ish ShaBazz. Mike recommends Omni Calculator.
Julian Chokkattu can be found on Twitter @JulianChokkattu. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our executive producer is Alex Kapelman (@alexkapelman). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I am Michael Colori, a senior editor at Wired, and I am joined |
| 0:12.9 | remotely by my co-host, Wired senior writer Lauren Good. |
| 0:16.9 | Hey, Mike. It really feels like a remote week this week because we just spent a lot of time |
| 0:22.7 | trying to get our audio lined up before this podcast. So I hope you all really enjoy this |
| 0:29.7 | because we're working really hard to make it sound good for you. Yes, we usually have to work |
| 0:33.8 | hard to make ourselves sound good. So a little bit of effort goes a long way. |
| 0:38.8 | Well, today's show is all about Apple. |
| 0:41.7 | The company held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference this week. |
| 0:45.7 | And because we're still in the middle of a pandemic, this year's WWDC was a virtual-only |
| 0:51.1 | experience. |
| 0:52.8 | The Monday morning keynote was a pre-taped presentation, which played |
| 0:56.6 | sort of like a very slick infomercial. Apple used the opening slot of WWDC to announce |
| 1:02.9 | all the new software features coming to the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch, and Mac computers. |
| 1:08.9 | Later in the show, we will talk about what wasn't said during the keynote, and we'll kick |
| 1:12.9 | around some ideas about what tech conferences are going to look like going forward in this |
| 1:17.5 | new reality. |
| 1:18.8 | But first, let's dig into Apple's big announcements. |
| 1:22.0 | And to help out, we've brought Wired Senior Associate Editor Julian Chokatu back onto the show. Welcome, Julian. Hello. Hi. Good to have you back. |
| 1:33.1 | Now, there were a lot of announcement to WWDC, and there were so many that we're probably not going to be able to talk about all of them here on the show. |
| 1:40.6 | So let's get the big stuff out of the way and talk about iOS 14. Julian, |
| 1:46.6 | take us through the big changes. So I just want a fair warning that I will be saying just like |
| 1:53.6 | Android a lot of times in the next couple of moments. Because, you know, the first biggest, |
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