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Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote

2019-06-05 · Tech review, setup or bag tour · Ali · recording, 7:58 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Tools, apps and tech · mode: Review and recommendation

Ali picks five highlights of Apple's WWDC 2019 keynote: iPadOS, which he thinks will let the iPad replace a laptop for many people this autumn; iOS 13; macOS Catalina with Sidecar and the end of iTunes; the Mac Pro he will never afford; and the $5,000 Pro Display XDR with its $999 stand.

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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Intro: highlights of the WWDC 2019 keynote

00:00:26 — iPadOS: closer to a laptop replacement

  • ★★ Ali uses his iPad every day at work for about 10 hours a day and at home, for almost everything except a few things only a laptop can do. — 00:00:26 · iPad Pro, iPad
  • ★★★ Ali says iPadOS, an operating system made just for the iPad, brings it closer to being a genuine laptop replacement, and thinks that when it comes out in autumn 2019 the iPad will be able to replace a laptop for a lot of people. — 00:00:26 · iPad Pro, Apple, iPad
  • ★★ Ali says he will make a separate video covering iPadOS in more depth. — 00:00:55 · iPad Pro, iPad
  • ★★ The iPadOS features Ali is most excited about: split screen, external drives (which make the iPad Pro legitimate for photo and video editing), an easier way to move the cursor, many more keyboard shortcuts and desktop-class Safari. — 00:00:55 · iPad Pro, keyboard navigation, Safari, iPad
  • ★★ Desktop mode in Safari on the iPad will help Ali edit websites in Ghost and Squarespace, and anyone annoyed that Google Docs cannot be edited on an iPad. — 00:01:24 · Safari, Squarespace, iPad Pro, iPad
  • ★★ Ali suspects that iPadOS, once out in autumn 2019, will replace his laptop for everything except video editing. (hedged) — 00:01:24 · MacBook, iPad Pro, iPad

00:01:54 — iOS 13: dark mode, swipe keyboard, Photos, video editing, Memoji

  • ★★ Apple announced iOS 13 for autumn 2019, selling it mainly on dark mode, which now comes to iOS and iPadOS. — 00:01:54 · Apple, iPad Pro, iPad
  • ★★ Since reading Why We Sleep, Ali has stopped using his phone in bed and keeps it across the room, so he does not expect to use dark mode. — 00:01:54 · iPhone
  • ★★ Ali expects the native swipe keyboard of iOS 13 to be genuinely useful for quick one-handed replies; third-party ones such as SwiftKey were never that good for him. — 00:02:25
  • ★★ Ali takes a ton of photos on his iPhone and almost never looks back through them, so he likes the new Photos tab in iOS 13 that resurfaces memories. — 00:02:25 · iPhone
  • ★★ Ali films his piano-and-singing videos for his Instagram story on his iPhone and edits them in iMovie there, a poor experience, so he looks forward to the fuller video editing of iOS 13. — 00:02:54 · iPhone, Instagram
  • ★ Ali says no one really cares about Apple's updates to Apple Maps. (overstated) — 00:03:23 · Apple
  • ★★ Ali welcomes the new personalised emojis (Memoji) and profile pictures for people in iMessage, a feature missing for ages. — 00:03:23
  • ★ The new macOS is called Catalina, apparently after a place in California; Ali likes its default wallpaper. (hedged) — 00:03:23
  • ★★ Sidecar in macOS Catalina lets an iPad act as an external display for a MacBook; Ali, who takes his MacBook everywhere and misses an external display for editing, thinks Apple's own version will be genuinely useful where options like Duet never were great. — 00:03:23 · iPad Pro, MacBook, Apple, iPad

00:03:40 — macOS Catalina: Sidecar and the end of iTunes

  • ★★ Apple is splitting iTunes into three apps: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV. — 00:04:08 · Apple
  • ★★ The macOS Catalina change Ali is most excited about: plugging an iPhone into a MacBook will no longer open the iTunes window automatically. — 00:04:37 · iPhone, MacBook
  • ★★ Presenting the new Mac Pro, Apple touted a 1,000-nit display and a 1.4-kilowatt power supply, jargon Ali says he does not understand. — 00:04:37 · Apple

00:04:50 — The Mac Pro

  • ★★ Ali says he does not need the Mac Pro, a device aimed at the pro end of the spectrum: he is happy editing in Final Cut on his MacBook Pro. — 00:05:27 · Final Cut Pro, MacBook
  • ★ Ali tells Apple he would be open to a Mac Pro review unit to review how it fits his pro workflow. (playful) — 00:05:27 · Apple

00:05:56 — The Pro Display XDR and its $999 stand

  • ★★ Apple's new Retina 6K Pro Display XDR costs $5,000; its presenter compared it with film-production reference monitors costing about $43,000. — 00:05:56 · Apple
  • ★★ For Ali $5,000 is completely ridiculous for a display; he might have leaned towards buying it under 1,000. — 00:06:28
  • ★★ Ali imagines the Pro Display XDR is a good deal for professionals in film production, as an alternative to a $43,000 display. (hedged) — 00:06:28
  • ★★ The Pro Display XDR comes as a panel without a stand, which costs an extra $999; Ali found the room's silence at that announcement the best part of the keynote. — 00:06:28 · Apple
  • ★★ Ali has always wanted to cover a tech event but never felt enough of a tech YouTuber; now that his channel has grown, he feels he has the right to. — 00:06:57 · YouTube

00:07:10 — Why he now covers a tech event; sign-off

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Central: Apple · iOS 13 · iPadOS · Mac Pro · macOS Catalina · Pro Display XDR

Also: Works: Why We Sleep

Organizations: Instagram · YouTube

Concepts: keyboard navigation

Places: California · Cambridge

Products: Apple Maps · Apple Music · Apple Podcasts · Apple TV · Duet · Final Cut Pro · Ghost · Google Docs · iMessage · iMovie · iPad · iPad Pro · iPhone · iTunes · MacBook · Memoji · Safari · Sidecar · Squarespace · SwiftKey

Only in the description or credits: Steve Jobs · WWDC 2019

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