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2025 WWDC Rickies

4th June 2025 at 1:12pm

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Connected #555: The Rickies (WWDC 2025) (show notes)

🥇 Regular Picks

Host	Pick	Score
Myke	Regular	"Significantly new OS design on at least one platform"
Federico	Regular	"Apple rebrands version numbers of its operating systems"
Stephen	Regular	"The new version of macOS drops support for some Intel Macs"
	"Not all, but some."
Myke	Regular	"New features are announced that are powered by Apple Intelligence"
Federico	Regular	"The updated visionOS gets an eye scrolling feature"
Stephen	Regular	"iPadOS gets updated window management tools"
Federico	Regular	"At least one visionOS app in compatibility mode becomes a native one"
Stephen	Regular	"The Google Gemini logo is shown on screen as part of a partnership announcement"

⚠️ Risky Picks

Host	Pick	Score
Myke	Risky	"Apple has a new app for gamers"
	"It's called Apple Games." "It creates new, specific developer terms for games." "It features a partnership with Microsoft for Xbox Game Pass."
Federico	Risky	"Apple opens up AFM (Apple Foundation Model) to developers"
	"It's a 3B parameter version only that runs on device." "It's designed in a way that only specific "endpoints" can be used with a native API, like summarization or writing or prioritizing content." (In other words, developers won't be able to prompt the API with arbitrary text, they only have access to particular tasks like summarization.) "Apple shows off examples of how they're using the same tech in its own system apps."
Stephen	Risky	"Apple announces an updated Mac Pro"
	"The starting price remains at $6,999." "The starting system on a chip is the Apple M3 Ultra chip with 32-core CPU, 80-core GPU, and 32-core Neural Engine." "There is a build-to-order option that exceeds the unified memory available on the Mac Studio, which currently tops out at 512 GB." Like a previous pick, this pick was prophesied in a dream, and one detail of the dream (the size of the Mac Pro wheels) was already confirmed, so it's basically a lock.

💪 Flexie Picks

Host	Pick	Score
Stephen	Flexie	"At least one new OS is referred to by its old marketing name in developer documentation or tools"
Stephen	Flexie	"There is no macOS developer beta by the time of recording"
Stephen	Flexie	"Image Playgrounds is updated to not be quite as terrible"
Stephen	Flexie	"At least one Apple Intelligence feature is announced for watchOS"
Stephen	Flexie	"visionOS gets a dark mode"
Stephen	Flexie	"iOS gets new home screen customization options"
	Ungraded: perhaps icon shapes, icon tinting for light mode
Stephen	Flexie	"Automator remains"
Stephen	Flexie	"Alan Dye is in the presentation to talk about the redesign"
Federico	Flexie	"Apple teases bigger versions of AFM on the horizon"
Federico	Flexie	"Apple hints that a new "glass-like" material for its UI design is true to the nature of the hardware itself"
Federico	Flexie	"Split screen multitasking comes to the iPhone too"
	Even at the time of picking, Federico thought this was likely too early, but hope springs eternal.
Federico	Flexie	"Swift Assist mentioned and promised again"
Federico	Flexie	"The ChatGPT integration with Siri now has access to reasoning models"
Federico	Flexie	"A disclaimer is added to some features in the video saying whether it's real footage or simulated"
Myke	Flexie	"visionOS gets support for VR game controllers"
Myke	Flexie	"Apple and Sony partner over VR controllers"
Myke	Flexie	"Apple introduces the new OS design with an animated video showing the old look morphing in to the new look"
Myke	Flexie	"Animated Genmoji"
Myke	Flexie	"Image Playgrounds can make terrible videos"
Myke	Flexie	"Apple partners with Anthropic for Xcode"
Myke	Flexie	"People start claiming to have found evidence of a folding iPhone"
Federico	Flexie	"Shortcuts gets new Apple Intelligence actions"
Federico	Flexie	"Apple announces a third party assistant API for some markets"
Myke	Flexie	"During the opening, Tim Cook uses the words "love" and "developers" in the same sentence"