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Craig Federighi Talks iOS 16 Lock Screen Redesign, macOS Ventura System Settings, and More at 'The Talk Show Live'
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He’s just way too quiet. Almost shows no excitement, haha
Will he ask questions regarding Apple's union busting? 🎊
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I'm pretty sure the rules of the game are that he can talk about anything presented at WWDC. Anything else outside that lane is out of bounds.
If you have to ask you probably already know the answer. At this point, I prefer someone else doing these interviews. Someone like Jason Snell or even Marques Brownlee. Marques did an interview on his podcast last year with Federighi and he did a decent job.
Widgets for lock screen look like ****.
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I've watched the full interview and to be honest there wasn't something new that wasn't mentioned before.
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Gruber's not a journalist. He's an Apple fanboy with a platform. If you go into these interviews and his podcast with that perspective, you'll be much more entertained rather than expecting hard-hitting questions.
The comments here saved me a lot of trouble.
A 90 minute interview that could be 20mins if.. he… could.. g e t.. hi s question…… ou…..t..
So painful. Turned off.
So painful. Turned off.
Should they say filmed? Like implying actual film?"...taped live..." TAPED?!?!
Gruber will never ask any serious questions that would even hint at criticism
Jeopardizing his access to do events like these is not something he would ever risk
As expected, Gruber asks no hard hitting important questions like-
unionisation at Apple stores, iOS App Store commissions, Right to Repair, third-party app stores, Epic Games Fortnite debacle, the all-time low developer relations, the App Store reviewers rejecting bug fix updates, Cloud gaming, the Flexgate on the MacBook Pro/Air, EU Usb-C mandate, iCloud in China... and many more important topics.
It's obvious this interview is scripted and pre-approved by Apple's PR team. Gruber isn't sharp or aggressive in these interview; he never grills them for answers. What a waste of time.
unionisation at Apple stores, iOS App Store commissions, Right to Repair, third-party app stores, Epic Games Fortnite debacle, the all-time low developer relations, the App Store reviewers rejecting bug fix updates, Cloud gaming, the Flexgate on the MacBook Pro/Air, EU Usb-C mandate, iCloud in China... and many more important topics.
It's obvious this interview is scripted and pre-approved by Apple's PR team. Gruber isn't sharp or aggressive in these interview; he never grills them for answers. What a waste of time.
It's honestly why I stopped with his podcast a couple years ago now
The "Talk Show" is a whole lot of hemming and hawing and yipping and yakking and very little substance given how long the shows are. John is unfocused and long winded too often.
In his defense -- it is called "The Talk Show"... and you do get a lot of random talking -- for sure
King of the navel gaze in Apple fan land
He sort of fell into this as a career and I think it eventually goes to anyones head
Imagine -- he gets access and information and demo units...and all he does is pontificate on a blog and a few long winded podcasts -- and that's his career. He's also always exceedingly sure his opinions on things are "correct".
Good work if you can get it I suppose
Most of these questions were scripted (As in, what would be permitted to ask and discuss ahead of time), and I doubt Apple would address the iPhone 7 during this interview. But I do expect them at some point to openly release a statement about their logic as to why it was discontinued.
I'll add one more: the ridiculous yearly release schedule for macOS that is leading to increasing technical debt, year after year, and unfixed bugs.
A painful and lackluster interview. Such a waste of opportunity to question a great engineer like Craig Federighi. The intro was cringe.
Then it would be called “The Freak Show”I miss Phil Schiller being in these interviews
That's always been his problem. It takes him forever to get to the question
Yawn. Gruber once again failing to ask any hard-hitting questions and instead throwing softballs out there.
But then again he has to lest his early-access pre-release devices & "interviews" (really just Apple pre-screened pre-approved questions) vanish.
But then again he has to lest his early-access pre-release devices & "interviews" (really just Apple pre-screened pre-approved questions) vanish.
I can’t believe I was waiting and looking forward to this. I should’ve known better from the previous years.
You are where I was a couple years ago it sounds like.
I finally un-subbed to John all over and moved on...realizing it's really just long winded Apple PR all the time.
The gaming on the Mac segment looks like it may end up being a dual edged sword for the Mac ecosystem. Federighi outlines how there is very high synergies for gamer engining and gaming infrastructure to all the way across iOS - iPadOS - macOS. With iPads with plain Mx ( M1 , M2 ) in them that would actually be even more unified. The primary expansion here is in the Laptop ( plain M -> M Max size SoCs) and lower end of the desktop line up.
The bulk of the inertia there is all the lower half. ( games flowing off the iPhone. ) and power efficiency,
The mainstream gaming market is more hyped about large , fire-breathing above mid range GPUs. Apple's focus is almost entirely different.
So one edge ... more games for Mac ecosystem.
The other edge cutting in the other direction is likely dropping 3rd party GPUs. ( eGPUs , addin GPUs , etc. )
Apple will do their own relatively bigger GPUs ( Ultra, "double Ultra" ) that the gaming engines highly optimized to Apple GPU specifics can just "scale up" on. Not "top down" driven flow.
Apple rollin out upscaling means they'll more likely evolve on a "work smarter not harder" path along with making their non-ultra big GPUs better over time ( steady evolution on performance more cores and/or bandwidth over time).
The leap that some hard core gamers may take with "Apple interested in mac Gaming" is that they are also interested in max-power consuming GPUs ( or hyper modular GPUs) . That is probably a disconnect in causality.
WWDC 2020 Apple made no moves to brining 3rd party GPUs to macOS on M-series. 2021 same thing. 2022 , I haven't completely finished the WWDC sessions, but overall same relatively same radio silence. Plus major hype on how making current 1st gen Apple GPUs for Mac go faster with new, better optimizations. Some new stuff likely will get done on the GPUs that Apple hasn't retired ( pruned off with macOS 13 'drop list'), but looks like it isn't just Intel main application cores they are leaving behind over the long term.