WWDC 2022 - Apple's about to reveal their MONSTER....

Let's get into it

Let's talk about WWDC. LK, I'm sending this over to you. This is very exciting

Let's talk about the event, and we can talk about hardware as well. Yeah, so earlier this week, Apple announced that

WWD is coming back on June 6, and it's online only again for the third year in a row

but there's a twist. So, yeah, 2022, my goodness me, my, my God

I can't do it. I can't say that word. The 2022 iteration of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference will start on June 6

Apple promised you to the event will showcase the latest innovations. Here's a big surprise in iOS, iPad OS, MacOS, WatchOS, and TVOS

Who would have predicted that? So anyway, this is code for unveiling the next major upgrades to these operating systems

So it's going pretty exciting. Yeah, I'm looking forward to iOS 16. So it's going to be online only for most people, but fortunately a few developers and students will be able to

watch the keynote from Apple Park. So typically, thousands of developers flock to the San Francisco Bay Area for a rare chance

to learn from Apple staffers in person. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the last two developers conference took place online only

This changes in 2022, sort of. Apple's going to host a special day for developers and students at Apple Park to watch the

WWDC 2020 keynote and the state of the union presentations. this kind of goes back to what you're saying

Lewis like we're going to be watching a pre-recorded video it's not even going to be live at all

and that kind of takes some of the well it definitely takes the energy out of it to me

it's like oh we're all going to sit there and watch this thing together I don't want to say that

yeah I don't want to say to Tim Cook you know you know quoted my

amazing opinion piece but yeah I mean that's exactly I thought. I was like, I almost tweeted like a ha-ha

You mean like Nelson from? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, okay. I mean, I think it's awesome to do, you know, I hope that they flash audience reaction, you know

Yeah. I mean, I hope that it's, they're visible there, you know, but I don't know

I mean, they are going to be watching a movie. I mean, watching people watch a movie is maybe not so awesome

I don't know. It's hard to tell. Watching people watch a movie. That's exactly what's going to be happening here

I hope they bring it back live next year. I thought they would have it live this year

because the COVID stuff seems to be really fizzling out and most people are vaccinated in the days

That seems like it seems like it. At least for now, you seem like it seems like you would be safe to do it at this time of year

Like if it were going to be in November, you probably wouldn't be as safe. But like this time of year with, you know

the COVID numbers that we have and everyone's spending most of time outdoors, it just seems like it would be fine to do it indoors

But whatever. They want to be cautious. Okay. Started to rise again, though. That's the problem

They could they set up a bunch of lawn chairs, you know, in the middle of the Apple HQ and, you know, the rainbow stages and do it there

Did you see? Google did that. Did you see that? They did it outdoors? They had an outdoor win with, and it looked really weird because everybody's like on their little, it looked like everybody was playing twister, you know, or everybody was on a twister, you know, or everybody was on a twister, whatever that is, Matt, right

Like, you've got your little thing, you're six feet from somebody else, you're outside. I don't know. I don't know that that was better

It was kind of weird. Well, someone pointed out on Twitter that the money you save from flying to San Francisco and booking a hotel for a week, you could buy yourself a brand new Mac studio and a studio display

So, now, look on the bright side. That's hilarious. Well, I mean, a lot of people like the way it happened last year, right

I mean, now instead of just, you know, a certain number of people getting to, everybody gets kind of the same experience, right

So, I mean. Well, people were complaining about the lottery system before, weren't they? It was, you know, they couldn't get in year after year

people, because there were so many limited spots and, of course, for the people who did get in

it is totally valuable to be able to meet people in person and network and meet Apple employees

It's a network, I think, and seeing friends as a year after year that people really like

And the same thing was true for Macworld. I mean, that was the best thing, seeing people you hadn't seen all year that you see every year

you know, these fellow Mac fans and familiar journalists and stuff like that

But, you know, you can't recreate that. So, you know, as usual, you can be sitting home watching a Zoom presentation for the

third year in a row. But I, you know, I quite like, I don't hate the online presentations that they do

You know the pre the can ones the pre ones But I think you right You know it doesn have the live stage feel thing has a you know it gives it more energy I think

Yeah, totally different energy then. I don't mind watching it. I don't mind watching a pre-recorded event either, but I would like to see them go back to

the live thing because that just had so much more of a community feel to it because

like we're all watching it live and there's reactions live as things are happening

There's reactions to product announcements. And I thought that was pretty cool

So I'd love to see me to go back to that. Let's talk about product expectations here because I think that's something that people are probably interested in

So first of all, freaking great video by Max Tech out this week

I will put a link to it in the show notes if you want to check it out. And they're talking about what to expect at WWDC 2022

And as we all know, this is supposed to be the end of the transition

So we are almost certainly going to get a new Mac Pro happening

at WWDC and even German expects that we're going to get it. Now, it probably won't be released at WWDC

or maybe even anytime soon after that. Like, it seems like we're going to get

and I think German said this, we'll have the final Mac Pro, the final transition to Apple Silicon in September

but they're almost certainly going to announce it at the keynote events for WDC

And it seems like we might also be getting a brand new monitor. And if you have just bought the studio display

or if you're thinking about buying a studio display, you may want to wait and hear this information

because this might alter your purchase decision. In fact, I'm having all sorts of buyers remorse

I'll talk about this in a second. I bought the M1 Ultra Mac Studio. And man, that thing is just so confusing

because it was so hyped to perform at such a level. And all the benchmarks, all the real world performance

indicates that it's just not, it's just not performing the way we would expect

I know we talked about this in the past, and I thought I would just kind of put a cap on it and give you one more short presentation on really what's going on with the M1 Ultra

Yeah, I won't bring it up 10 more times, you know, in the next 10 weeks. You have my curiosity

So what's the rumor about the new monitor? Okay, we could start with that. So there are also rumors going around that not only is Apple going to be

announcing the Mac Pro, right, with Apple Silicon, but they're also going to be essentially releasing

what seems to me to be like a mini pro XDR display

So if you're wondering why the studio display doesn't have mini LED backlights

it doesn't have ProMotion, well, it seems like those features are going to be present

in the 27-inch pro-XDR mini, as I'm calling it. So it's essentially

yeah, it's essentially going to be a 27-inch version of the pro-XDR display

which actually makes a lot of sense. So if they price this thing like around 3 grand, right

which I'm suspecting it will be like $3,000, $3,500, it will be $27 inches, which means it will be $5K

it will be retina. So it doesn't have the resolution of the ProXDR display

but it will have a lot of the same features. It will just be a smaller form factor, and it will be 5K and some 6K

And it's supposed to have mini-LED, so it's going to give a vastly improved contrast ratio

it would probably be a million to one versus what is in the current studio display

which is like 1,000 or 1,000 or 1 because it just has a single LED back panel that doesn't have any

variation in brightness. It's just they're all the same brightness, right, all the time. And it's supposed to also have pro motion, which I don't think that, well, I'm getting ahead of myself here

So we'll see what happens with that. But that is one of the rumors. And I think one of the people who has been talking about this has been

Ross Young, who's one of the ysts out there, who has a pretty accurate track record

And he's saying that he thinks it will be revealed along with the Mac Pro, the updated Mac Pro

And then the other thing will be the Mac Pro, right? So the Mac Pro, we don't know exactly what's going to happen with it

We know that during the last keynote when they were releasing the Mac Studio

They said the transition to M1 ships is complete, and there won't be any, or they said

I should rephrase that, that there won't be any new M1 ships. So that got people thinking well wait a second like if there not going to be any new M1 chips what the heck is going in the Mac Pro And it seems like they actually going to release a chip that special to the Mac Pro and actually give it a completely new naming scheme So it will include the M1 Max in probably like a quadruple orientation

So instead of being two like there is in the Max Studio, there will be four. And they might call it like the X1, right

So it's going to be like the Mac Studio pro version of the Mac Studio

M1 Ultra version. It's going to be two of those and they're going to engineer it

so that you can have four of those in the same computer and they're going to give an entirely new naming convention

So the Mac Studio or the Mac Pro with X1 Ultra or X1 Extreme, some people are calling it

and then you have the new monitor. So everyone will be so excited that

they'll be panicking to open their wallets and give Apple another $10,000 or $15,000

So if they release a 27-inch XDR display mini I would truly

I don't want to be vulgar but I'd be pretty miffed about that

you know it's like well you know open up the one you got

and check it out first I mean it ain't that bad yeah so you're looking

you're using one right now how do you like it Leander it's lovely it's beautiful

it's really really a lovely lovely display it's super colorful it's really high resolution

I mean I'm looking at I had a just I got a Samsung one here which I thought was a pretty

nice display. I've had two external displays, one either side. And this Samsung display that I thought was pretty good

I don't know what the model number is. And I got a Ben Q one on the other side that rotates

The Ben Q one is actually much better than the Samsung one. But yeah, in comparison, it's an awful junk

I got a bad to look at it. It's horrible. You know, it burns my eyes

And this display is lovely. And as you saw the camera, the, what's it called

I've already forgotten the name of the feature. I always forget the name of that feature, too

I have no idea why. I'm totally happy with it. It was pricey

It's not cheap, but this display, I think, is going to last me a long time

It's a really good size. I'm totally happy with it. I'm delighted with it. I'm sure I will be, too

I just, like I said before, I'm not going to go into the whole rant again, but I just feel

like they could have made it special and they didn't. They just basically, it's a cash grab

It really is. It's a nice display, but there's nothing special about it

Aside from the fact that, and this is the thing. It's a 5K display

It's really nice. I've pissed my old MyMac. I can't use my old MyMac as an external display because it's basically the same panel

And I was like thinking because they used to have that, what was it called

I wasn't in the future. Target display mode. Where you could use an iMac as an external display

you know and they've crippled it with this machine and all the ones subsequent after that

well apparently there's a good there's a good reason for that there's a lot of conspiracy theories I'm a typical apple you know they can't use this

but apparently it doesn't thunderbolt cables don't have enough bandwidth to drive it

as an external display so you'd actually you'd actually somehow double up the

someone said there was a technical way to do it you have to do you have to push

it through two thunderbolt cables or something like that which sounds like a

airy nightmare, but, you know, there was a technical reason why they weren't doing it, but that's a

disappointment. So I've got a beautiful display right here, you know, my old IMAQ, which I can't use

Yeah, so I'm not saying it's a bad display. I mean, I know that I'm going to like it once I get it

unboxed, which I open the box. But, but it just, you know, it just feels like it's just

just like it's straight in the trash. I mean, it's a little too similar to the IMac and it's so expensive. It just does kind of feel like a cash grab, but, and, and what I really wanted is the thing that

we are hearing might show up at WWDC, which is the 27

inch 5K HDR, mini LED backlights, pro motion, like that is what I wanted. That's what I

was hoping we were going to get is a mini pro XDR display. Instead, what we got was

a 5K IMac panel put into its own M1 iMac chassis and

without the computer there. So that's what we got. That's not what I wanted though

Basically it has an iPad in it, doesn't it? that you can't use. Yeah, that you can't actually use

Yeah, and the A13, I just think is completely superfluous. Like, it's, the only reason it's there is to enable center stage and, um, 3D audio

on older Macs. That seems to be the only reason that it even there So it like for me I like okay well if you have a newer Mac you didn even need the A13 to be in the display because your Mac could have driven that performance Anyway I doing the I doing the rant I said I wasn going to do

So, yeah, I'm going to get it, I'm going to get an inbox. And the other thing is, hold on, wait, is there anything else to talk about for WWWC

I think that's it. So we're expecting a Mac Pro probably with an X1 extreme

Well, hold on. There's a lot of rumors about the ARVR headset. Oh, I don't think that's happening

I don't. I'm glad that you brought it up. don't think that's happening and here's why. Do you think that Apple would reveal an entirely new

paradigm of computer via a virtual event where some students are going to be watching a pre-recorded

video? I don't think so. Students are going to love it. They're going to be clapping and then

and then like, what? That'd be the weirdest marketing lunch I've ever seen. No, when they finally

do release the Apple goggles or whatever they end up calling it, or the eyesight, the E-Y-E site

as I've coined it. They need to make that an absolute spectacle

Like it needs to be brought on stage on the face of John Claude Van Damme doing those stretches

Space between two trucks. Space between two trucks driving down the road

Like that's what it needs to be. Like it needs to be some kind of epic events that people won't forget

They can record and showcase at this event. I mean, in the thinking that they have to get this in the hands of developers

like get them thinking about it so that there's something when a thing launches

I mean, that's not a bad point. And that's one of the reasons why I thought they were going to debut at WWDC

But now that they're doing it virtually, I'm like, dude, are they really going to

are they going to announce a product of that magnitude and a completely new paradigm in computing

And they're going to announce it via a pre-recorded event. Maybe they would

No glitches. No glitches. And they are inviting some people. to do some things

Maybe we'll strap those on the, you know, I mean, that's another part of this that we've

been missing, right, is hands-on after these events. Like, they take some people down and let them play with the brand new thing, right

They're going to strap it on the students' heads. They're going to have students all sitting there, like that, you know, Zuckerberg famous

picture where all the things are. They're going to be watching the keynote inside the other than

They will not let that happen. That was the most hideous-looking picture

Welcome to the hive. Although it was iconic. I mean, we all know exactly what picture you're talking about, right

It's like where everyone is just frozen and they're, they're practically drooling because their brains are being reprogrammed with these headsets on and then Zuckerberg is off there in the corner, like, you know, looking so proud of himself

I just don't think they're going to announce the headset. I think I went to the Apple Watch launch event

That was a big deal. Everyone was there, all these celebrities, you know, all the Apple execs. It was a U-2 was on stage

You remember that thing, but they touched fingers at the end. You know, I think that's probably a good point

You know, they probably would make a big deal out of it. But I don't know. They probably could make a big deal of a WDC

But, you know, I think you're right. I think it's probably going to come in the fall maybe if they do do it

And there hasn't been any manufacturing rumors really, have there? Yeah. You know what I mean

You know, it's like, again, new computing paradigm. They're going to have to invite people from every walk of life, every publication to try it on

and then dispense all the notes that they give everyone, right? It's all the YouTubers can pretend like they're reviewing it, but they're literally just reading off a list of things that were said at the keynote event

Ooh, bitter. No, remember what I said? I said, I would literally do that

If TC would just send me early access, I will, he doesn't even have to type it out

He can just write on a napkin. And I will literally be like, this is the best headset that has been made

And I'll be reading it like that. Like, I won't even pretend like I'm not. Bitterness confirmed

Okay, so there's your hardware expectations. And maybe there'll be a surprise in there

but I think that's what we're getting. We will probably see Mac Pro. Almost certainly

it sounds like we're getting a new Pro XDR display mini, 5K with the features that you want

But that display will probably be, again, I'm going to guess $3,000

maybe even, maybe even like $3,500. If the ProXDR display is $5,000 and they're shrinking it down

with the same technology, it's probably going to be at least $3,000