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2025 WWDC Rickies

11th June 2025 at 11:26am
Donation: $125 Donator: Myke Flexies winner: Stephen Winner: Federico

▶️ Episodes

🥇 Regular Picks

HostPickScore
Myke Regular "Significantly new OS design on at least one platform" 1
Federico Regular "Apple rebrands version numbers of its operating systems" 1
Stephen Regular "The new version of macOS drops support for some Intel Macs" 1
  • "Not all, but some."
Myke Regular "New features are announced that are powered by Apple Intelligence" 1
Federico Regular "The updated visionOS gets an eye scrolling feature" 1
Stephen Regular "iPadOS gets updated window management tools" 1
Federico Regular "At least one visionOS app in compatibility mode becomes a native one" 0
Stephen Regular "The Google Gemini logo is shown on screen as part of a partnership announcement" 0

⚠️ Risky Picks

HostPickScore
Myke Risky "Apple has a new app for gamers" 0
  • "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" 1
  • "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" -1
  • "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.

🏆 Scores

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

💪 Flexie Picks

HostPickScore
Stephen Flexie "At least one new OS is referred to by its old marketing name in developer documentation or tools" 1
  • Stephen cites logs mentioning iOS 19 and some "iPadOS 19" documentation.
Stephen Flexie "There is no macOS developer beta by the time of recording" 0
Stephen Flexie "Image Playgrounds is updated to not be quite as terrible" 1
Stephen Flexie "At least one Apple Intelligence feature is announced for watchOS" 1
  • Workout Buddy counts, barely.
Stephen Flexie "visionOS gets a dark mode" 0
Stephen Flexie "iOS gets new home screen customization options" 1
  • Ungraded: perhaps icon shapes, icon tinting for light mode
Stephen Flexie "Automator remains" 1
Stephen Flexie "Alan Dye is in the presentation to talk about the redesign" 1
Federico Flexie "Apple teases bigger versions of AFM on the horizon" 0
Federico Flexie "Apple hints that a new "glass-like" material for its UI design is true to the nature of the hardware itself" 1
  • Stephen cites Alan Dye's mention of the rounded corners on many Apple screens influencing the design.
Federico Flexie "Split screen multitasking comes to the iPhone too" 0
  • 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" 1
Federico Flexie "The ChatGPT integration with Siri now has access to reasoning models" 0
Federico Flexie "A disclaimer is added to some features in the video saying whether it's real footage or simulated" 0
Myke Flexie "visionOS gets support for VR game controllers" 1
Myke Flexie "Apple and Sony partner over VR controllers" 1
Myke Flexie "Apple introduces the new OS design with an animated video showing the old look morphing in to the new look" 0
Myke Flexie "Animated Genmoji" 0
Myke Flexie "Image Playgrounds can make terrible videos" 0
Myke Flexie "Apple partners with Anthropic for Xcode" 0
Myke Flexie "People start claiming to have found evidence of a folding iPhone" 1
  • Stephen himself speculates that vertical extra-large widgets would make sense for a folding phone, and Stephen counts as people.
Federico Flexie "Shortcuts gets new Apple Intelligence actions" 1
Federico Flexie "Apple announces a third party assistant API for some markets" 0
Myke Flexie "During the opening, Tim Cook uses the words "love" and "developers" in the same sentence" 0

💸 Flexie Scores

  1. Stephen: 75.0% (6/8)
  2. Federico: 37.5% (3/8)
  3. Myke: 37.5% (3/8)

Federico, despite his pessimism, avoids last place and Myke donates $125 to The Trevor Project.