Weeknote, Sunday 22nd June

  • So hot this week but it broke today with some heavy rain. Dark nights are also on their way in – winter is coming.
  • Craig Federighi Opens Up About iPadOS, Its Multitasking Journey, and the iPad’s Essence – Great interview of Hair Force One from WWDC by Federico Viticci. Get’s into a lot of detail on the iPad and I loved this quote from Federighi – “I think we’ve been on a journey of finding the right interface for iPad, along with our users. And I think it actually has been important that it’s been a considered journey”. Great way of saying it took us a long time to realise the Mac was right all along.
  • How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for ‘F1’ – the money Apple have spent on F1 is phenomenal – even creating a custom camera for the film based on an iPhone. Can’t wait to see the results.
  • Rolling the ladder up behind us – the more we use AI, the less we train people, we build a problem for those following in our footsteps. Lots to think through from this one.
  • ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study – small sample size but expect we’ll see more of this as people lean on LLM’s without applying their own brain.
  • Deacon Blue member James Prime dies aged 64 – sad news on the passing of James Prime. Deacon Blue are one of my favourite bands and their first 3 albums are still important to me. RIP.
  • XBOX + AMD: Powering the Next Generation of Xbox – with a 60 second video Microsoft confirm their next gen console will be a…PC. The XBox always was mostly a custom PC, but this along with the recent hand held feels like an admission that hardware will be more generic, the OS will be Windows, and we’ll have Steam/Epic stores on a future XBox plugged into your TV.
  • Binged The Studio on Apple TV+. It was fine but not quite the knockout hit I’d heard about. Great cameo’s and some good laughs but ran out of steam.

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