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2024 WWDC Rickies

 8th January 2025 at 1:58pm
Donation: $150 Donator: Stephen Flexies winner: Federico Winner: Stephen

▶️ Episodes

🥇 Regular Picks

HostPickScore
Myke Regular "More flexibility for app icon placement on the iPhone home screen" 1
Federico Regular "There are some design and navigation updates to the Settings app across multiple platforms" 1
Stephen Regular "There is no new hardware announced or released" 1
  • Was just "announced" but Stephen actually made it riskier to better fit his intent with the pick.
  • An announcement about Vision Pro in more countries doesn't make this wrong.
Myke Regular "Notification summaries are provided by a new AI system" 1
Federico Regular "There is a new system for changing the colors of icons on the home screen" 1
Stephen Regular "Apple mentions that it has created its own LLM" 1
  • Must be the term "large language model" or "LLM" in particular, but this could be in a session or the State of the Union keynote, not just the main event.

⚠️ Risky Picks

HostPickScore
Myke Risky "visionOS 2 has keyboard passthrough when in an environment and it works with any keyboard, not just the ones Apple makes" -1
Federico Risky "Apple shows a 'Siri Camera' (not official name) feature that lets you point the iPhone at something and use AI to understand what you're looking at" -1
  • Non-graded: this is also why the next iPhone will have a physical camera button
Stephen Risky "Apple previews a new visionOS feature that puts overlays over the camera passthrough with information about objects in view" -1
  • Was originally "app" instead of "feature".

🏆 Scores

  1. Stephen: 1
  2. Federico: 1
  3. Myke: 1

💪 Flexie Picks

HostPickScore
Stephen Flexie "We do not see Sam Altman's face in the presentation" 1
Stephen Flexie "Some AI features on the Mac require an M2 or later" 0
Stephen Flexie "At least two of Apple's first-party apps escape iPad compatibility mode on visionOS to become full-blown native apps" 0
Stephen Flexie ""Improvements" to Stage Manager are announced" 0
Stephen Flexie "Something in iOS 18 picks up the UI used in the iOS 17 App picker in Messages" 0
Stephen Flexie "Journal app comes to iPadOS" 0
Stephen Flexie "The next version of macOS is named Tahoe" 0
Myke Flexie "RCS is not spoken aloud in the keynote" 0
  • An earlier draft of this pick was a risky pick that also specified that it would appear in the "bento box" slide specifically in the bottom left.
Myke Flexie "Standby mode for iPadOS" 0
Myke Flexie "At least one of the 'Coming Soon' environments in visionOS 2 is removed" 0
Myke Flexie "Apple announces some new immersive video content coming to Vision Pro" 1
Myke Flexie "Apple announces an AI deal with Google" 0
  • Originally included the word "also" but that was confusing things.
Myke Flexie "Vision Pro international availability is mentioned" 1
Myke Flexie "Chatbot features from AI partners are available only to iCloud+ subscribers after a free trial" 0
Federico Flexie "Some AI features will be region-locked" 0
Federico Flexie "Some new iOS 18 features will be exclusive to the iPhone 15 Pro line" 1
  • Was originally just "iPhone 15 line" but it was pointed out that the plain 15 phones have the same processor as the 14 Pro.
Federico Flexie "Notes gets new features, such as math calculations and voice recording" 1
Federico Flexie "The next version of macOS is called Sequoia" 1
Federico Flexie "Apple shows off the ability for Siri to control apps, but it's not launching this year" 1
Federico Flexie "The calculator app comes to iPad" 1
Federico Flexie "The next version of Stage Manager supports more than 4 windows at once on some iPad models" 0

💸 Flexie Scores

  1. Federico: 71.4% (5/7)
  2. Myke: 28.6% (2/7)
  3. Stephen: 14.3% (1/7)