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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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I just want to say it. The Xbox 25th anniversary Xbox Series X25 in transparent green. Is that the name of the thing? I mean, they're calling it the Xbox Series X25. You said Xbox like four times in that name. The Xbox X25 Xbox Series. Yo, what is up, people of the internet? Welcome back to another episode of The Waveform Podcast. We're your hosts. I'm Marques. I'm Andrew. I'm David.
And this week was WWDC week from Apple. So, of course, we'll be talking about that quite a bit. New software, new AI. A lot of thoughts. Old Siri. Maybe some hot takes. Old Siri. But maybe some other stuff, too. We've got potentially a couple of nostalgic video game stories. You know how I feel about nostalgia. Backyard baseball. Yep. It's never going to not come up. Pick it and choose it.
It's always going to come up. By the way, if you're a new listener just trying to hear what happened at DubDub, hit that subscribe button. We talk about all the newest tech stories every week. So, of course, whenever the next big show is, we'll be talking about that too. Get subscribed so you hear that ASAP when it drops. Audio versions like 5 in the morning or something crazy. 4 in the morning.
You get to listen on your commute no matter what time you commute. Even ASAP-er. Yeah. So, but first, did they even test this? Does anybody have a did you even test this? Oh yeah, this was my turn. Okay, so my did they even test this is, I think it is a universal experience if you have the services that I have, which is a weird way to phrase this. Yeah, like 14 people.
On the Apple TV, if you have YouTube downloaded and you also have YouTube TV downloaded, I am one of those people that like to put related things together. So I will sit there and rearrange my icons, rearrange the apps, everything to put them together. So I was like, oh, YouTube and YouTube TV, I'll put them together. They have like the exact same icon. And it is so confusing.
And every time I'm trying to pick one, I accidentally pick the other one. The only difference is that one is in light mode, one is in dark mode. And the YouTube TV one says TV at the end of it. But besides that, they look exactly the same. So there's been so many times that just my fiance will sit down and try to go to YouTube and she'll accidentally pick YouTube TV.
Or I will try to pick YouTube TV and I'll just not really thinking about it, pick YouTube.
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Chapter 2: What are the key features announced at WWDC 2026?
And I'm like, they need slightly different icons. Or, hear me out, you just go to YouTube and they have a tab that says TV. I just kind of assumed that's what it was. I think that's only on... I could be wrong. I think that's on other, like Roku or something like that, because Roku and them didn't have a deal, something like that. I forget. Why don't they just do that?
On Apple TV, there is an app for it. I have the iPad YouTube app and the YouTube TV app, and I regularly, they are almost exactly the same icon as well, just with a little TV at the bottom. So I also sometimes hit the wrong one. Oh, yeah, this might just be just an app thing, not even just for Apple TV. They might just have too similar an app. Probably. You know what they should change it to?
Remember when the old iOS original YouTube app was a TV? Yes. That's what the YouTube TV icon should be. Yeah, just throw it all the way back. Nostalgia. Nostalgia. Nostalgia sells. Sells is so last decade. Speaking of did they even test this, by the way, one of our readers did go and create a did they even test this subreddit.
So if people want to submit their own did they even test this, we will be looking through those. We don't moderate it, but we will be looking at it. Are you saying we'll test them? We may. We may because sometimes the things that we bring we didn't even test, to be honest. That's like last week's title for the podcast. Yeah, like last week's title. If you know, you know. Yeah.
If you know, you know. Draft. Okay. Notification bank. Big deal. Tim Cook's last good morning at DubDub this year. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today at Apple Park. It was interesting. It was interesting.
There was a lot of, I was just telling you guys off camera, but I feel like there were a bunch of little things that were slightly different about this keynote that they've technically never done before. It might not make much of a difference at all, but did you notice that there were people, for the first time I've ever seen this, walking in the background behind the presenter in Apple Park?
Like Craig would walk out of the woods and in the blurry in the background, there'd be like two people walking with binders, just like having a conversation. There's a few instances where people were in the background. It was like not enough people to think that the campus was... Because like normally it feels... Normally it's totally sterile. Nobody's in the background.
But there were still so few that it still felt closed down and like possible. There was one where they were by the... What's that like reflecting pool? Some big shallow pool. I don't even know where that is. In the background, there was two people talking to each other, but one was wearing all black and just blended in. So just like one person talking to himself. Okay.
for a little bit, but yet I'm, I can't tell if they were told to be there. I noticed that I felt like that's, it's definitely, it's such a big production. It has to be an intentional choice of like, oh, we're shooting it on campus. We might as well make it feel more like the campus is alive. But that was a small thing.
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Chapter 3: How does Siri's functionality change in this update?
Well, I'm thinking, because Megaphone makes us change our password every six months, and I've forgotten it every single time. But you have to do a captcha every time you do it. So would this be able to go through? That feels like an immediate... I mean, okay, every single one of the demos is good if it works, but I have so many questions about what happens if it doesn't work.
And that is a good example of, like, what happens if there is a captcha and it doesn't work? It probably just decides... We can't do this one. You go do it. They showed a little UI of showing all of your passwords, and you select the ones that are compromised or weak, and you say, change these for me. And over time, it'll light up green if it's changed it successfully.
So maybe it'll just show the ones that it hasn't been able to change successfully. I know that Google has eight times introduced the feature where it can automatically unsubscribe from emails for you. Allegedly. Allegedly. Exactly. Because half the time, every time it doesn't work.
I specifically tested this like a week ago because I was like, okay, I'm looking at this exact email that I got from this company. Yeah. I'm clicking on subscribe. And if it shows up again, I'm going to take note. And it did. Do you know, it's usually because those places then in their unsubscribe list are like, well, you can unsubscribe from sales or reminders or this.
And so like, it's probably picking one slow. Cause I have one name, name and shame, stickly furniture. I, yeah, I've done the unsubscribe button in Gmail probably every other day for like the last two weeks and I'm still getting emails from them. Well, I had a few years ago, I had an idea to do a bonus episode of does the unsubscribe button even work?
And basically the answer was very boring because I spoke with the superhuman CEO, which now got purchased by Grammarly, which changed its name to superhuman. Which also might get crunched. Yeah. Sherlock's later in this episode. Yeah, but he was telling me that basically because of laws and stuff in different parts of the world, there are laws.
It comes down to the company that is running it to just do it correctly. Yeah. So it's like not a PR. Yeah, like it's not a fun answer. It's just like, yeah, they just have to go do it or have something in place to do it. You know, I guarantee you that my local like my favorite restaurant sends me like 20 emails a week and I keep hitting on subscribe and they don't do it.
And I want to be mad at them, but they are my favorite restaurant. So it's difficult. I have a snail mail version of this, and I'm way off topic, but I have this clean energy company that sends me mail, sends me the same please switch to this clean energy source piece of physical mail,
every couple weeks and i have solar on my house like i don't need to do this like please stop asking and i've i've tried to get off this list i've called them i've sent mail i've sent emails i've tried and i think the last time i tried they're like oh yeah it could take six to eight weeks to get you off the list it's been months i'm still on the list i got one today it's really wow right now it's just like clean energy something something i'll find the name because clean energy corporation
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Chapter 4: What updates were made to Vision Pro features?
Yeah. This was the David update. There it is. No, this was the David update. Vision OS 27. Vision OS 27, baby. Oh, this is, I did, yeah, I did mention. Yeah. I thought, as soon as they announced this, I was like, oh, Dave's going to do that. Yes, I am. So what are you going to do on the Vision Pro, Dave?
The major change in Vision Pro, besides all the, you know, Wi-Fi speed, whatever, who cares about Wi-Fi speed? I don't care about Wi-Fi speed. You guys remember Vision Pro? You can get rid of the Wi-Fi. I'm still excited about this feature. So now on Vision Pro, there is a feature where there was always a feature where you could spatialize photos, right? Now you can spatialize panoramas.
That's not something they had access to before. And in the Vision Pro, there's a thing called environments and they had them built into the Vision Pro where you could like turn the digital crown and you would slowly blend into these beautiful worlds that were handpicked by Apple. They were hand scanned by Apple with these special cameras. No, no, no, no, no.
You can use your own panoramas as environments now. So to be clear, before on the Vision Pro, I looked it up, there was exactly six environments. So when you shut down the transparency and go into one of those worlds, you could either be in Yosemite, Mount Hood, Maui, Joshua Tree, White Sands, and the moon. That's it. All California? The moon is also California. Yeah, California.
Chapter 5: What new capabilities does the updated Siri offer?
On my website, I offer 60 different environments. So Apple, if you want to buy them from me, you can. Apple was like, how do we get Waveform to talk about Vision Pro? That's probably what happened. That was exactly why I added that. And they nailed that. They also couldn't really make a ton of updates to Vision Pro because the guy that used to head up the Vision Pro is now the head of Siri.
And so that's why Vision Pro is kind of like spiraling at the moment. King of... Never mind. Things that people don't use very much. But there is like... We're going to talk about Siri in a bit, but there is a floating Siri orb now that you can interact with that's just always there. This is my favorite thing they announced, period. The floating Siri orb? The floating Siri orb. What?
and the fact that you can move it around yep it should have been finder guy it should have been but it's not going to be and i'm imagining like popping but the cool thing about the series you don't want another clippy you know like no that's exactly what i want he does he does want another clippy you know the palantir orb in lord of the rings that not palantir the missile company the same thing the rings evil guy yeah do you know the palantir orb and lord of the rings no
Okay, well, it's the thing that they can look into that basically teleports you to a different place and you can look around. That's why they call it Palantir because it's like we're spying on everyone on the planet. And I wish I was joking. But anyway, that's basically what the Siri orb looks like. You look at it and then suddenly you have magic access.
I just want my digital assistant to be that orb. I think that is genius. Yeah. Put it everywhere. Other interesting things about Vision Pro, you can now look at things in your real environment and just ask Siri about them. Yeah, they circle search. Circle search. But in the real world. Yeah. And there's a new app kit for Safari so that you can make 3D environments inside of Safari.
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Chapter 6: How does Siri integrate with personal context and apps?
So if you're in Safari and Vision Pro, you can tap a little thing and then it envelops you in the entire environment. They also added Iceland. Yeah, we can take Marques to Iceland. True. You know, I also offer Iceland. I also offer Iceland environment, just so you know. And they're probably better. There's Google.com. Are the Apple lawyers on that one? Iceland, yeah. Iceland? Okay.
Okay, we're basically done with the hardware because tvOS didn't really get upgraded. The HomePod, they just forgot existed. I think because it cannot run any of the Siri stuff because it just doesn't have any RAM. Isn't that crazy? The Siri box doesn't do the new Siri?
And everyone who's bought a HomePod, by the way, all the $400 HomePods out there and the HomePod Minis and all those, they're not going to get the new Siri. So everyone who's sort of bought into, like the people who are most likely to accidentally use Siri once in a while are not going to see these improvements. Doesn't the iPhone 16 not even have the new Siri anymore?
No, they'll have the new Siri, just won't have the most advanced on-device models, which is like the couple of small things, like the notation or dictation. But yeah, the Siri box doesn't get better Siri. To be fair, the original Homebook came out in 2018, so they were not thinking about this.
It's still like, I bought my Google Home Assistant in like 2018 or whatever, and that has a new Assistant. That just got updated this year. But that's all cloud-based, whereas Apple is like, we're taking your personal context from your local stuff. That's true. Yeah.
So, yeah, one thing as well, we didn't notice we didn't know earlier is that on the iPhone, like when you update, there's now this persistent notification in your settings that's just like indexing in progress. Yeah, it's a big deal. And we'll talk about Siri. So we might get to this in the next section. But yeah, there's a big part of what makes Siri the new Siri. Yeah.
Is it's going to have way more personal contacts that will index all of your stuff. It may take some time to do that, but when it's done. It'll be worth it. Yeah. There's a few small last minute things. AirPods now have customizable EQ.
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges and limitations of Siri's new features?
Oh, thank God. Rufus cheered out loud during that. Finally. It's years over date. I can't believe it took this long. It's so... Yeah, no, this should have been a feature that came with them in AirPods 1 10 years ago. Yeah. And it's ridiculous that it hasn't had it forever. And it's a little disappointing that it's only three bands because... Yeah. $3,000? No sense. Yeah, it's so expensive.
Is it just high, medium, low? That's it? Yep. Yeah, you have high, high, high end. I'll take what we can get. I'll take it. I have a question about this. Yeah, because isn't the whole point of AirPods Pro and AirPods and stuff that it has the adaptive EQ that will like adjust to your ears and hearing. So why even have that? So yes, and that was basically their argument the entire time.
And I think if you asked if Ellis was here, he'd be fuming about how things don't sound like other things. But like, yes, Apple's AirPods are computers in your ears and they are constantly adapting to sounding differently all the time based on your environment and based on what's playing. And so the EQ theoretically is also not like other EQs. It will generally...
It'll generally affect what you're listening to, but not in a precise scientific way. I still think that's fine. I'm glad to have the customization. It's about time. Every time I review earbuds, I always talk about how they sound out the box, but also this kind of doesn't matter that much because you can make them sound the way they want to. But I've never been able to say that about AirPods.
Now I can. That's true. I hope it's for all AirPods. Some people think that the AirPods Pro 2 sound better than the AirPods Pro 3. Exactly. I have one of them. And that was a balance thing. And ideally, this is what you can use to dial that bass back a little bit and actually make it sound You can have your AirPods 2 again. I have a much more granular critique that I will spare our dear viewers.
Take it. But... No, I want to hear it. You want to hear it? Yeah. So when I listen to noises on my AirPods Pro 3, which I did buy and I still have, they're sitting on my desk in case they ever get firmware updated. When I type on a keyboard, I have this little like resonance in like somewhere between 600 and 2000 Hertz. That's like. Every time I'm typing, it feels a little thocky.
And I just don't really like that. It's just annoying. Every time I get in a car and I close the door, it sounds like a bomb goes off. That's actually very common. Yeah, Pro 3s do that all over the place. The Pro 2s never did it. I don't know what changed. And sometimes I feel like the noise canceling is so...
Um, it's really good, but it's so powerful that I'm like, I've just alienated from my environment. It's just uncomfortable and I don't like it. And just overall, the, the sound of the pro twos is, I, it feels a little more balanced. I feel like the pro threes have like a sharp high end, like at the high mid range can get sharper, but that's a three band EQ. Isn't going to solve that. And yeah,
I just still use my pro twos, even though I have three on my desk, I have the pro threes on my desk and I only ever use the pro twos because they just like are the ones that I don't hate. I also won't be using the EQ with them because I am so used to the way the pro twos sound. I use them to listen to so much material. That's like how I check everything I ever mix.
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