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Chapter 1: What were the highlights of Apple's WWDC announcements?
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Chapter 2: How has Siri AI evolved in the latest updates?
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Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of CornerRadii. I'm your friend David Pearce, and on today's show, we are going to answer a bunch of your questions about WWDC. WWDC, Apple's big developer conference, started on Monday. We got a lot of new announcements, lots of new stuff for all kinds of Apple devices, big new Siri AI, Apple intelligence.
The phrase private cloud compute was used 450,000 times. You all had a lot of questions. We have lots of answers. Nilay Patel is going to join me from his hotel room somewhere in the Bay Area, and we're going to go through as many of your questions as we can. It's going to be great. But first, here is everything else happening on The Verge today.
This is 90 Seconds on The Verge for Wednesday, June 10th, 2026.
Chapter 3: What new features are coming to iOS 27?
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Meanwhile, Xbox leaders have said that they're exploring radically different, that's a direct quote, radically different business models for the Xbox. Basically, with RAM making everything so expensive, Microsoft seems worried that not everyone will be able to afford a console going forward, especially not the one we know of as Project Helix, which is apparently just a super high-end gaming PC.
What are radically different business models? Maybe it'll be ads. Maybe it'll be even more focus on Game Pass and streaming on any kind of hardware. Maybe it'll be lots of companies making lots of different kinds of Xboxes. Right now, under new leader Asha Sharma, it seems nothing is off the table for Xbox.
And finally, we have our first look at The Social Reckoning, the sequel to The Social Network, coming later this year. And more importantly, we got our first look at Jeremy Strong trying to look and sound like Mark Zuckerberg. People around here understand that when I say no, that's the end of the debate. I'm not two years out of a dorm room anymore, Charlie. Look around.
The Frances Haugen story is an important and big and fascinating one, but I'm not so sure about this movie, you guys. We'll see. You can read more about all of this at TheVerge.com. That's it. That's 90 Seconds on The Verge for Wednesday, June 10th. All right, now let's get to your questions from WWDC. We had the live stream on Monday where we gave kind of our first thoughts on everything.
It was pure chaos. But, Nilay, you are here. Welcome, Nilay Patel. What's up?
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Chapter 4: How is Apple addressing privacy concerns with AI?
From, I would say, looking at you, you're in an Aloft hotel. Like, that's the distinct vibe that I'm getting from your background. This is definitely the Marriott competitor to an Aloft hotel. It's the AC hotel. I've never been. It's very corporate. Yeah, I love it. I assume every single person who is in your hotel is WWDC related in some way.
Yeah, there's a lot of software developers just looking furious at their agents. Yeah, that sounds about right. So we have a bunch of questions that people sent us about WWDC, about some of the announcements. But first, I just want to get a vibe check. Because one of the things we talked a lot about on Monday's show was how... different and sort of bizarre the keynote was?
Like just a very different presentation from Apple than we're used to at WWDC. What was it like in the room at Apple Park? You know, it's really interesting. I saw all the commentary about how the video was different online. No one there actually experienced the video that way. Like we were outside, we're watching it together, but we, it's, it's just in that environment.
Like you're watching a giant projection of a video. You don't spend time being like, well, that lighting is kind of blown out or like, this is obviously handheld shot on an iPhone. Like why is everyone walking so much? Yeah. Right, like it just, it kind of doesn't happen to you, especially for me because I'm live logging, so I'm just typing furiously.
I have to go back and watch the video every time to figure out what happened. So in the space, what you were really getting, and especially as you walked around and we did a bunch of reporting and went to briefings afterwards, you really got the sense that Apple wanted to prove it. Like that was by far the vibe was this stuff is real. It works. We're doing the live demos.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of corner radii in Apple's design?
They had a tech talk with Craig Federighi afterwards and Mike Rockwell and a bunch of the team. They were doing the live demos in that room. They were standing up in front of a room full of reporters, like gesturing at architecture slides. The vibe was, this works now.
We got caught with our pants down two years ago, and now we are only talking about things we were shipping that works, and we're being responsive to criticism. Look, by the way, the first thing they announced was an opacity slider for liquid glass on macros. Like, literally the first announcement of WWDC. So that was the vibe there. Like... I wouldn't say serious. It was like a party vibe.
Like, they were in full celebration mode because the thing was working and it was shipping. But it was very... It wasn't as goofy as years past. Like, they weren't covering anything up with, like, theatricality or production value. And I think that came through on the video. I think everyone saw that on the video. Like, there wasn't a lot of special effects for CGI at Craig Federighi.
In the space, it was just very different. Like, on campus, walking around Apple Park, it was very... We did it, right? You like it. Would you like to see another live demo of it working? And that we just kind of like live through that over and over again. Yeah, I saw a lot of people talking about the slowness of the demos and the fact that you actually got to sort of watch it think every time.
And I had the same reaction you did, which is like, this is Apple making damn sure that you can't accuse it of not showing real demos. Like out of its way to be like, no, no, no, this is how long it takes. Yeah, without question. And even the demos that we actually saw, things took a while.
And I think part of that in real time, in person, was all the developers had downloaded the betas and private cloud compute was just on fire. Like some of the demos just didn't work.
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Chapter 6: How does Apple's approach to hardware impact its software capabilities?
And the people doing the demos were like, yeah, PCC is on fire today. Like, sorry about that. We're going to try again. And I very much appreciated that. Do you know what I mean? Totally. The notion that Apple had built this stuff, that it was working, that the demos were experiencing real failure as opposed to everything being on Rails. You know, it's in beta.
There was something about that that was just honest in a way that lots and lots of Apple presentations have just been infomercials for years. This one was very much like, we made products, we're shipping it, we have a point of view about what it can and can't do, and we really want you to talk about it. Even down to...
Craig and team doing the live briefing for journalists afterwards, which it was good. You know, they know their stuff and they were there and Tim Cook was sitting in the front row. And it just struck me that they were a little nervous, not in a bad way. They weren't off their game at all. They were just out of practice. They hadn't done it in so long. Talking to real people.
Talking to real people and completing sentences without getting to retake it. There was just an element of Craig getting on stage and being like, hey, everybody, this is what this is like. I'm feeling this for the first time in ages. Yeah. Which I thought was good. I think it's good for Apple to be in that position of saying we have to prove that the thing works this time.
Yeah, I think that's right. All right, let's get into some questions. And actually, the first question is about the structure of the keynote itself. Here's the first question. Hey, this is Gabe from D.C. I had a question about your thoughts on the WWDC keynote.
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Chapter 7: What is the future of the HomePod and Apple TV?
I noticed this year Apple barely segmented out anything into a specific section on iOS, on watchOS, on iPadOS, et cetera. There was like one small thing at macOS and apologizing for how bad the design was. But this struck me as a weird question. Is Apple moving to kind of a post-OS specific product line? It just seems like what Google does.
They just kind of talk about features and the assumption is that all their platforms will get the features.
Is Apple going to start de-emphasizing all of their operating system-specific features and just kind of move to a general, this is what we're doing this year? I don't know. That seems like an interesting thing and a big shift for Apple. Here are some of your thoughts. Thanks so much.
I just want to say using Google as the example of the assumption that all their platforms will get the features is so generous to Google that I appreciate that. But, Nilay, this jumped out to me, too. What did you make of like the actual structure of the thing? We're so used to it going a very specific way. What did you make of the way this one went?
I think the only feature of note that they announced was the Apple intelligence stuff. And that does work across all the platforms. If they had gone platform by platform, I think just narratively, they would have announced Apple intelligence five times in a row. When we actually did go to the briefings and the demos, the way it works on different platforms is different.
And they showed us Apple intelligence working in different ways on the iPad. Like they're very proud that on the iPad, you can swipe down from the top and there's a little animation that drops the sort of spotlight pill down. It's very cool, by the way. It might be the single coolest thing in the 27 operating systems is a little swipe down on the iPad.
On the Mac, you know, there's context menus and they've re-architected Spotlight and Command Space. And now you can hit Command Shift Space to take a context screenshot for Siri AI, which is just a new keyboard command. Like operating system by operating system, there are differences. There are different features in the operating systems.
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Chapter 8: How does Apple's AI strategy compare to competitors like Google?
But the things that they announced cut across. And most importantly, Apple intelligence cuts across. And I don't think there's a way you can do that and then go back through the operating systems. And if you look at the structure of the keynote, and there are three pillars, the first thing they announced was refinement. Mac OS 27 Golden Gate is the snow leopard of this era of Mac OS.
Yeah, we fixed all the stuff we broke the last time. It was very much the vibe. And so I think they just didn't want to do lists of features. I think they wanted to talk about their core capability. Interestingly... The family stuff, the child safety stuff, all of those features are out already. They re-announced a bunch of tools that already exist.
And the thing that's really different is the underlying architecture has been updated so that those tools might actually work now.
And that to me is just a big section is Apple responding to regulatory pressure around the country in different states and around the world in different countries because there's so much of it and their products have existed and they paid no attention to them that they essentially fixed it. So maybe they'll work. We have to do the testing. They don't work now.
So maybe the architecture will make them actually work. And then they re-announced a bunch of features to point out that they exist, which I thought was utterly fascinating.
Yeah.
So, but you don't think there's some bigger sort of reshuffling in how Apple thinks about operating systems here?
Because I think one line you could draw from the AI thing you're saying is that if you think Apple intelligence and Siri AI are the sort of umbrella features across everything, then maybe spending a lot of time thinking about iOS and iPadOS and macOS as fundamentally different things is not useful anymore. And that maybe this becomes a more sort of
I don't know, like single OS company rather than being as individual silos as it has been over time. But it sounds like you're just saying this is more of like a keynote planning thing, not a giant rethink in how Apple thinks about software. It's true in the case of Siri AI, which is a cloud service. Yeah. So Apple has instantiated Siri AI as a cloud service across all of its devices.
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