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2022 WWDC Rickies

8th January 2025 at 1:58pm

▶️ Episodes

🥇 Regular Picks

Host	Pick	Score
Federico	Regular	"The next version of iOS brings changes to notifications"	1
	Ungraded: a new design, better management
Stephen	Regular	"Third party widgets gain interactivity"	0
	Edited to clarify "third party" as a few Apple widgets are already interactive.
Myke	Regular	"No Apple-made headset is seen"	1
	Was originally "AR/VR/MR hardware" and "introduced", but the others wanted some clarifications.
Federico	Regular	"The next version of macOS will have at least one feature exclusive to Apple Silicon Macs"	1
	There are a few examples: live captions in FaceTime, using an iPad Pro as a color reference display, and dictating emoji.
Stephen	Regular	"iPadOS is updated to include a more desktop-like mode with resizable and overlapping windows"	1
	Was originally a Risky pick with the addition of a "with keyboard and trackpad" clause, but some WebKit source code changes made it much less risky. He watered it down further by removing an "overlapping" clause as well and not phrasing it as a "desktop-like mode", but then decided to just go all the way back to the original pick.
Myke	Regular	"New features for Tapback in Messages"	1
	Ungraded: more options than just the 5 built in, maybe even arbitrary emoji, better notification controls It wasn't mentioned in the keynote, but yes, Tapback finally works properly for SMS.

⚠️ Risky Picks

Host	Pick	Score
Federico	Risky	"iOS gets split-view support for multitasking to use 2 apps at once"	-1
	Ungraded: works in both portrait and landscape, drag and drop between apps. That's iOS, as in on the iPhone.
Stephen	Risky	"The new version of macOS brings back Dashboard as a way to place widgets outside of the current Notification Center"	-1
	It has to be called "Dashboard" to get the points.
Myke	Risky	"Apple gives a sneak peak of the new Mac Pro..."	-1
	"...It features a case design inspired by the 2019 Mac Pro. It features more ports than any other Apple Silicon Mac available today. It does not have support for third-party GPUs. It features a chip name that has not appeared in any other product. It has a starting price of at least $6,999. It is coming later this year." Originally it said "same case design", but the change was accepted on air after Myke reconsidered. "Later this year" was also demoted from being an exact quote. This Mac Pro will have to beat the Mac Studio in terms of ports: 2 USB-C, 2 USB-A, 4 Thunderbolt, SD card, Ethernet, HDMI, and headphone jack, for a total of 12. This pick is similar in spirit to Myke's ongoing Annual pick, but with different conditions. At the time it was the most complex graded pick ever made.

🏆 Scores

Federico: 1
Myke: 1
Stephen: 0

After many technical difficulties, GLaDOS reveals Federico as the winner.

💪 Flexie Picks

Host	Pick	Score
Stephen	Flexie	"A presenter references the fact that some developers are at Apple Park for the keynote"	0
	This is litigated a bit later when Myke's very similar pick got graded, as Tim Cook did address the audience before the video played. He was decided to not be "a presenter" at the time, ultimately.
Stephen	Flexie	"AR-specific features are added to Swift or SwiftUI"	1
	Nothing in the keynote, but ARKit 6 is adding RoomPlan, a new Swift API for scanning a room with a camera and LiDAR scanner.
Stephen	Flexie	"At least one iOS system app is redesigned to bring its controls to the bottom of the screen"	1
	Initially, the other two rejected Stephen's argument that the lock screen counted for this. However, later on while grading another controversial pick, Steve Troughton-Smith came to Stephen's aid live and helped bolster the case that the lock screen is in fact an app.
Stephen	Flexie	"Apple's classical music service is announced"	0
Stephen	Flexie	"macOS 13 is called "Mammoth""	0
Stephen	Flexie	"Apple announces the first M2 Mac"	1
Myke	Flexie	"Tim presents some portion of the keynote in front of a live audience"	0
	This is very very similar to Stephen's Flexie and both ultimately got graded at this point, as well as Stephen's other controversial pick.
Myke	Flexie	"Widgets on tvOS"	0
	As discussed by Myke on the AppStories podcast.
Myke	Flexie	"More apps can use a picture-in-picture-style window on iPadOS"	0
Myke	Flexie	"Redesign of the Home app... again"	1
	A pick from last year gets (legally) reused.
Myke	Flexie	"There is no additional external display support for iPadOS"	0
Myke	Flexie	"iPadOS multitasking remains fundamentally the same as the iPadOS 15 version"	0
Myke	Flexie	"Big improvements to SwiftUI"	1
Federico	Flexie	"Shortcuts gets an API on iOS and iPadOS for apps to run Shortcuts directly, without URL schemes"	0
Federico	Flexie	"Shortcuts for Mac gets personal automations"	0
Federico	Flexie	"You will be able to set light and dark mode on a per-website basis in Safari"	0
Federico	Flexie	"Apple brings Quick Note's floating window to iOS"	1
Federico	Flexie	"The Music app gets an updated design in the Listen Now page"	0
	Federico still isn't happy with it, it seems.
Federico	Flexie	"iPadOS gets improved split view with at least 3 apps at once"	0
Federico	Flexie	"Apple releases a Safari API to deal with cookie consent forms"	0
Federico	Flexie	"You can delete Messages in the Messages app, like in WhatsApp"	1
	That is, the ability to revoke a sent message so that the recipient can no longer read it.
Federico	Flexie	"Apple introduces a proper Reminders API for developers"	0
Federico	Flexie	"Shortcuts gets an XL widget on iPad"	0

💸 Flexie Scores

Stephen: 50.0% (3/6)
Myke: 28.6% (2/7)
Federico: 20.0% (2/10)

Federico went big, but ultimately donated a record $200 to Moms Demand Action.