For The Podcast

Apple held its annual WWDC keynote this past Monday! We wanted to get our impressions out as quickly as possible, so we’re posting this episode a bit out of order. The previously recorded episodes will still be released shortly! Until then, here’s what we talked about:

• Apple’s WWDC keynote
  • iOS 8.3 gripes
  • The Verge: The 10 most important announcements from Apple WWDC 2015
  • OS X El Capitan
    • OT: Our favorite cereals
      • El Capitan Crunch
      • OOPS! All Berries
    • Safari improvements
      • Pinned tabs
      • Audio tab indicator
    • Natural language searches for Spotlight
      • No Siri on Mac?
    • Improved window management
    • Metal for improved GPU processing
    • Beta
      • Jason’s MacBook update
  • iOS 9
    • Jason’s early impressions using iOS 9 beta 1 on the iPad
      • Multitasking on iPad Air 2
      • Picture-in-picture video
      • QuickType keyboard improvements
    • Proactive Siri
      • Apple’s response to Google Now
      • Can Apple’s service ever be as good as Google’s?
      • Search API and deep-linking
      • The End of Apps As We Know Them
    • Maps improvements
      • Public transit directions (finally!)
      • Making the switch from Google Maps to Apple Maps
    • Apple News
      • Apple’s version of Flipboard or Facebook Instant Articles
  • watchOS 2
    • Native apps
    • New watch faces
    • Time Travel
    • Third-party complications
  • HomeKit
    • Nest vs. ecobee3
    • No new announcements at WWDC?
    • Siri and Apple Watch support
    • Philips Hue lights
  • Apple Music
    • Super awkward presentation
    • Hand-crafted playlists
    • Apple aiming to include entire iTunes catalog
    • Beats 1 Radio
      • What Apple should have done instead
    • Connect feature (Ping 2.0)
    • Possible Sonos compatibility (pretty please?)
      • Android/Windows compatibility a good sign?
    • Apple Music vs. Spotify
    • Apple Music family plan
• E3 2015
  • Mike’s going!