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BubbleSort Show - 28: Down Deep Below the Surface

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Part II of the WWDC 2020 extravaganza!

Topics:

  • WWDC 2020
    • Keynote
      • AirPods - Craig & Mary-Ann Ionascu (Senior Engineer, AirPods Firmware)
        • EVEN MORE MAGIKS TO AIRPODZ!!?
        • Automatic switching
        • AirPods will switch all over the place
        • Spatial audio (AirPods Pro)
        • watchOS - Kevin Lynch (VP, Technology)
          • Damn, Apple has a nice health center
          • Complications
            • Multiple complications per app
            • Vic needs glo-baby 🤨
            • New Chronograph face
            • New way to reconfigure faces
            • SwiftUI complications
            • Faces
              • Face-sharing (sounds creepy)
              • Curated faces from App Store, friends & family
                • Offers download of apps you don’t have on shared faces
                • Devs can offer pre-configured faces from apps
                • Maps
                  • Cycling directions
                  • Fitness - Julz Arney (Senior Manager, Fitness Technologies)
                    • Dance workout
                      • Finally Vic can get fit again
                      • Core training
                      • Strength training
                      • Cool-downs
                      • Activity app is redesigned for workout data and renamed to Fitness
                      • Kevin can’t dance
                      • Sleep - Vera Carr (Manager, Health Software Engineering)
                        • Sleep duration goal
                          • When to wake up
                          • Getting to bed on time
                          • Wind Down
                            • Vic will never use this 😒
                            • A calm lock screen experience
                            • Shortcuts to sing to you like your mommy did
                            • Sleep mode automatically dims the screen (auto-theater mode)
                            • Alarm, audible or taptic
                            • Uses breath and movement info
                            • Health app tracks sleep over time
                            • Hand washing (Apple Wash) - Kevin
                            • Privacy and transparency - Craig, Katie Skinner (Manager, User Privacy Software) & Erik NeuenSchwander (Director, User Privacy)
                              • Across all products
                              • Sign In with Apple
                              • Can upgrade accounts to Sign In With Apple
                              • Location data transparency
                              • Camera and recording indications
                              • Safari tracking blockers & controls
                                • Sites have to ask
                                • Apps
                                  • Apps have to show what type of data they track
                                  • Self-reporting model
                                  • App tracking practices will be shown on app pages in the App Store
                                  • Home - Craig & Yah Cason (Senior Engineer, HomeKit Software)
                                    • Ease of use
                                    • Open sourced HomeKit to make it easy to build devices
                                    • Tap or scan to set up an accessory
                                    • Home app will suggest automations for new accessories
                                    • New status of accessories that most need attention
                                    • Lights
                                      • Adaptive lighting - right color for the right time
                                      • Cameras
                                        • Define activity zones
                                        • Can limit motion alert areas
                                        • Facial recognition
                                        • HomePod can announce who’s at the door
                                        • Cameras can go onto Apple TV quickly
                                        • tvOS - Cindy Lin (Director, Program Management for Media Products Engineering)
                                          • PiP across tv
                                          • Better AirPlay to TV
                                          • Foundation on Apple TV+
                                          • macOS Big Sur - Craig
                                            • The Crack Marketing team 😂
                                            • Entirely new design - Alan Dye (Vice President, Human Interface)
                                              • Start Up Chime is back and other new sounds
                                              • SF Symbols comes to mac
                                              • Many elements of iOS design come to the Mac
                                                • Translucency
                                                • Depth
                                                • Shading
                                                • Reduced visual complexity (Overly Minimalist???)
                                                • Corner Radius
                                                • Buttons and Controls
                                                • Control Center comes to the mac
                                                • Unified Notification and Widget view
                                                • iOS 14 style Widgets
                                                • All new Mac Icons & Dock
                                                • More Translucent menu bar
                                                • Redesigned System Apps - Craig
                                                  • Finder
                                                  • Mail
                                                  • Photos
                                                  • Calendar
                                                  • Notes
                                                  • Podcasts
                                                  • Music
                                                  • iWork
                                                  • Messages Catalyst App
                                                    • Finally will have feature parity with iOS
                                                    • effects
                                                    • memoji
                                                    • new photo picker
                                                    • pinned conversations and iOS group features
                                                    • Maps Catalyst App
                                                    • Catalyst Updates
                                                      • Full Screen
                                                      • New menu and keyboard api
                                                      • New UI Controls
                                                        • Switches
                                                        • Pickers
                                                        • Check Boxes
                                                        • Multiple Resizable Windows
                                                        • Keyboard Shortcuts
                                                        • Safari - Craig & Beth Dakin (Manager, Safari Software Engineering)
                                                          • Continues to lead the pack in performance and efficiency
                                                          • More Privacy
                                                            • Privacy Report
                                                            • Checks for compromised passwords
                                                            • Web Extensions API support
                                                            • Extension Category in MAS
                                                            • Better control of extensions privileges
                                                            • Customizable Start page
                                                            • New look for tabs
                                                            • Built in translation
                                                            • Apple Silicon for Mac - Tim
                                                              • Johny Srouji is under water, according to Tim Cook
                                                              • Apple SoC design summary - Johny Srouji (SVP, Hardware Technologies)
                                                                • Apple has been doing custom silicon for over a decade
                                                                • A4 in 2010 to A13 in 2019
                                                                • iPad was A5X to A12X (and Z)
                                                                • 1000x GPU performance improvement in 10 years
                                                                • Apple has shipped 2 billion SoCs in 10 years.
                                                                • Srouji claims Apple Silicon will bring a whole new level of power to the Mac, considering both performance and power
                                                                • Better performance, lower power
                                                                • Custom technologies just for Mac - power management, Secure Enclave, high performance GPU, neural engine & ML accelerators
                                                                • SoCs specifically for the Mac, common architecture across product lines
                                                                • This guy keeps bouncing his hands up and down while talking. Does emphasizing points with hand waving mean anything if you do it after every word?
                                                                • Native apps - Craig
                                                                  • Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro are native now.
                                                                  • Xcode is ready to compile Mac apps to Apple Silicon.
                                                                  • Universal 2 - universal binary that works on Intel and Apple Silicon
                                                                    • Microsoft and Adobe are working on their apps
                                                                    • Craig called Microsoft his friends
                                                                    • Craig shows off Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. He shows off some Metal 3d animations
                                                                    • LR and PS native on Apple Silicon
                                                                    • Apple promises quick and easy recompilation, of course
                                                                    • Rosetta 2 **- Andreas Wendker (VP, Tools & Frameworks Engineering)
                                                                      • Automatically translates apps at install time or at first run time, or dynamic translation for JIT apps
                                                                      • Virtualization (docker, Linux)
                                                                      • Rosetta 2 performance demos
                                                                        • Maya
                                                                        • Shadow of the Tomb Raider
                                                                        • Linux VM in Parallels
                                                                        • iPhone and iPad apps run natively & unmodified on ARM Mac “Most apps will just work” (little vague there)
                                                                        • Quickstart program - Craig & Tim
                                                                          • Documentation & sample code
                                                                          • Private forums
                                                                          • Hands on labs
                                                                          • Developer Transition Kit hardware
                                                                            • Mac mini w A12Z, 16 GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Big Sur beta, and Xcode
                                                                            • 2 year transition

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