WWDC 2019 (Day 3478 - 6/3/19)

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Stephen watches the World Wide Developer's Conference which talks about software. He says that it is continuing from Apple's last event where they talked about releasing TV shows. Apple will be extending support for Apple TV controllers to the XBox 1 and PS4. They announced that they would add a calculator function to the Apple watch to the crowd's excitement. Next, they announced the release of dark mode for the iPhone.

Stephen then says that they announced that they were going to improve the maps app on the iPhone by adding a new feature that is like Google street view except it has more depth. He says that the app was really bad, so he is glad that they are improving it. Then, he says that some celebrity YouTubers he has never heard of announced a memoji update. Apple also made Siri sound better by introducing a new neural text to speech system.

Apple then announces the new Mac Pro which is $6,000. Stephen comments that the design looks like the previous Mac Pro. Next, they announce a display which they claim is the best Pro Display ever. iTunes is also splitting up into multiple apps due to it becoming too full. The iPad can also be used as a 2nd display for your Mac using a feature called sidecar. They then talked about the augmented reality kit.

Stephen says that he often has a chat open where he is talking to a group of friends while watching these conferences. So, when Apple talks about a new Swift UI Stephen says that Chaz was really excited since he is a developer that uses Swift to develop ios apps. Stephen says that the only cool things he took away from that conference was that TV OS was getting support for XBox 1 and PS4 controllers, and the sidecar feature. Stephen says that the sidecar feature would be useful for Mallory who would be able to do sketches in Photoshop on her laptop by using the iPad as a tablet for the Mac.

He says that overall the conference was underwhelming. Stephen says that he was mostly just interested in hearing about the new Mac Pro. He talks about about how Mac Pros are expensive, but used to be still accessible to the general public. However, the current price makes it only accessible to people who are going to use it for professional work. So, he recommends getting a Mac Mini or MacBook if anyone wants a Mac.

Stephen then talks about one of the limitations of his current Mac Pro. When he was editing Japan vlogs, he was unable to natively playback the footage Jeff filmed since H.265 won't playback on his computer smoothly. Therefore, he has to transcribe it into have to transcribe it to ProRes which takes a long time and makes the file size 5-6 times bigger. Stephen then mentions one thing that pissed him off about the Apple Display was that its given price was $5,000 (which was not unreasonable due to it being color accurate and have all those features which would usally costs tens of thousands of dollars), but to get it in matte it is an extra $1,000 and the stand also is $1,000 and it is not included in price of display.