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2020 Annual Rickies

4th September 2024 at 4:47pm

▶️ Episodes

🥇 Regular Picks

Host	Pick	Score
Federico	Regular	"Apple will name a successor to Steve Dowling, former head of public relations at Apple"	0
	"Either named by Apple officially, or reported by more than one outlet that a person has been appointed." Clearly in no hurry to do this, Apple finally hired Stella Low to the role in 2021.
Myke	Regular	"The 2020 iPhone line will feature at least one 5G phone"	1
	"Stephen is highly skeptical," Stephen jokingly predicts it will be called "iPhone 11S Pro Max 5G" Before the prediction episode has even finished, news breaks that 5G service is coming to Stephen's own neighborhood.
Stephen	Regular	"The 13 inch MacBook Pro will gain a larger screen"	0
	The long-rumored 14" model finally came out in 2021.
Federico	Regular	"At least one of the 2020 iPhones will have a higher refresh rate display (Pro Motion)"	0
	This feature did show up in the iPhone 13 line.
Myke	Regular	"The iPad Pro line is updated before the iPhone with a hardware feature that's not on any current iPhone in 2019 or 2020"	1
	Myke says during grading that he originally expected 5G to get him this point but LIDAR did instead, but he actually focused on LIDAR when originally explaining this pick. (During the grading, Federico delivers his impromptu review of the 2020 iPad Pro.)
Stephen	Regular	"Apple will launch its own podcast content beyond its existing deal with Oprah"	1

⚠️ Risky Picks

Host	Pick	Score
Federico	Risky	"Apple will release at least 1 new pro app for iPad that we haven't previously seen on iPad"	-1
	"(The app can be universal.)" After years of waiting, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro come to iPad in 2023.
Myke	Risky	"The notch on the iPhone will get physically smaller in at least one of the 2020 iPhones"	2
	Grading for this was tricky, but Stephen discovered that the Apple Accessory Design Guidelines indicate that the notch got very slightly smaller, by millimeters, mostly due to the switch from LCD to OLED in the iPhone 12. The consensus is that it's a technical victory but not an honorable one.
Stephen	Risky	"Apple Podcast app launches on Android"	-1

🏆 Scores

Myke: 4
Stephen: 0
Federico: -1

Non-Graded Picks

Host	Pick	Score
Federico	Non‑graded	"Shortcuts will gain folders and/or new ways to run Shortcuts"	1
Myke	Non‑graded	"Apple will announce a new services bundle"	1
Stephen	Non‑graded	"WWDC brings no real changes to Mac Catalyst"	0
Federico	Non‑graded	"The iPad home screen will continue to change with new elements and additions"	0
	The iPad went mostly unchanged in 2020, but iPadOS 15 did bring changes the next year.
Myke	Non‑graded	"Apple will introduce a new iMac design with an accompanying external display"	0
	The new iMac design wouldn't come out until 2021, and the new display came in 2022.
Stephen	Non‑graded	"Apple will not ship an ARM Mac in 2020"	0
	In 2019, Stephen picked the first ARM Mac to be shipped, so this was his... revenge?

Stephen coins "The Flexies" in the 2020 prediction episode.

In the year between making the picks and grading them, the Flexies became a game of their own with money on the line, but the new Flexie rules were not applied retroactively to this year's Flexie picks. "That would just be silly" and "We're not savages", after all. As a result, these Flexies are just two rounds of predictions for bragging rights.