Dave Mark Joins for WWDC21 Day 1 Reactions — Mac Geek Gab 875

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Guest Dave Mark joins John and Dave today to discuss, react, digest, and help explain the new things Apple announced at WWDC21's Keynote and State of the Union this year. Listen as your <del>two</del> three favorite Apple geeks have a gab for the ages!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 875 for Monday, June 7, 2021
  • 00:01:32 Dave Mark – Taught 3 different generations how to program.
    • 30 Books, including the Macintosh Programming Primer.
    • Executive Editor of The Loop.
  • 00:02:06 Quick, hot-takes (introduction of keynote, lighter stuff)
    • Safari Redesign, OCR, Universal Control
  • 00:04:11 Lots of Sherlocking: AirPlay to the Mac
  • 00:05:13 No hardware
  • 00:06:25 macOS Monterey
    • Shortcuts
    • Safari Tabs/Groups/UI
    • AirPlay to Mac
    • Low Power Mode
  • 00:21:48 Privacy
  • 00:32:12 Notification Center
    • Four Interruption Levels: Passive, Active, Time Sensitive, Critical
    • “Mute a single conversation, for a limited amount of time”
  • 00:38:00 Craig Federighi is the rock star
  • 00:39:49 SharePlay
  • 00:43:04 Do the new FaceTime features Sherlock Zoom?
  • 00:44:59 Developer Tools
    • Xcode Cloud
    • Swift Concurrency
    • Swift Playgrounds can Build iOS/iPadOS Apps
  • 00:53:22 AirPods Enhancements
  • 00:58:34 LiveText
  • 00:59:34 The Universality of so many features
  • 01:00:37 On Device Siri
  • 01:02:08 MGG 875
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Dave Hamilton

Dave Hamilton is a podcaster, a publisher, and a nerd who has spent the past three decades of his career educating thousands of computer users. In addition to Mac Geek Gab podcast (now in its 19th year!), Dave is co-host of Business Brain and Gig Gab, two other shows to check out! Dave is also the co-founder and CEO of BackBeat Media, a boutique network of podcasts and websites that represents fiercely-independent publishers, of which Dave considers himself one. He has been involved in online publishing since 1998, when he co-founded The Mac Observer, a popular Apple news site which was acquired in 2021. Technology isn't the only thing Dave's a nerd about: he's also a drummer, playing in Bitter Pill, Fling, and various other projects in and around the New Hampshire seacoast where he and his wife, Lisa, live and raised their two children. Dave's reachable for a limited amount of paid consulting at DaveTheNerd.com and you can find to him on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, too!

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