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Jun 25, 2020

Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2020 Special Keynote Commentary

For the first time, Apple hosted its Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2020 (WWDC) keynote virtually (and prerecorded) to open the week of developer-focused events (also virtual this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Augusto Pinaud is our Apple aficionado and leads us through what happened at this year's WWDC! (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://anythingbutidle.com for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you'd like to continue discussing any news from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2020 Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Headlines & Show Notes Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. WWDC 2020: Complete Transcript of Apple's Keynote with iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, and More - MacRumors iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 will let you set default email and browser apps - The Verge Apple reimagines the iPhone experience with iOS 14 - Apple Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon - Apple Apple introduces macOS Big Sur with a beautiful new design - Apple iPadOS 14 introduces new features designed specifically for iPad - Apple watchOS 7 adds significant personalization, health, and fitness features to Apple Watch - Apple Raw Text Transcript Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is mm:ss (e.g., 0:04 starts at 4 seconds into the cast’s audio). Read More 0:00Hello personal productivity enthusiasts and community. Welcome to anything but idle. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith. 0:05I'm Augusto Pinaud 0:06and we're your hosts for anything but idle. This is episode eight. And we're recording this on June 22 2020. This is actually special coverage of the Apple Worldwide developer conference. This is different than our normal episodes. But we hope to do these special coverage episodes when big productivity and technology events happen. So that's why we're here to talk about WWDC. And so with that, let's get into what happened today at the Apple Worldwide developer conference, keynote. Just from hearing the chatter around the event. I immediately thought I think this is probably going to be a digital experience permanently I feel like they really just did this really clean pre recorded event and it just seemed to work so well for them. You know, that was my impression Apple really they have been for years now providing the video they did at this time notice a difference on their website, YouTube Apple TV as well. A developer apps and I like you I think they have been they one of the issues on the previous years is that they run out of space so quick, so they can really scale up this if they stay digitally. Plus for the people who who travels and Elise is also such as less of a hassle or, or maybe even more hassle because some of them may be at home and getting distracted. I don't know. But like you and what I'm hearing is this digital experience is going to be here to stay. I'm probably sure that the next keynote, we'll have people but the WWDC DC as we know will be but it was fun to see. They obviously show how incredible Apple is as a marketing machine. They start with a flying emojis around the world was a computer and he was really really awesome at the beginning of the presentation and notice a surprise Tim Cook came after that and before he even start and everything in the apple Park he said well, we need to address racism, injustice and inequality and he talked about the efforts that Apple is doing Apple just recently open 100 million dollar fund to find these issues and and Tim Co...

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