Keynote Rickies, WWDC 2024

Federico Prince Flexy
Charity Chooser Score: 1 point
Flexing: 71.4%

Stephen Keynote Chairman
Generous Donor Score: 1 point
Flexing: 14.3%

Myke Risk Taker Score: 1 point
Flexing: 28.6%

The Rickies

Round 1
There is no new hardware announced or released+1
🐝Buzzkiller
Round 2
Apple mentions that it has created its own LLM+1
Risky Pick
Apple previews a new visionOS feature that puts overlays over the camera passthrough with information about objects in view-1

Round 1
There are some design and navigation updates to the Settings app across multiple platforms+1
Round 2
There is a new system for changing the colors of icons on the home screen+1
Risky Pick
Apple shows a ‘Siri Camera’ (not official name) feature that lets you point the iPhone at something and use AI to understand what you’re looking at-1
It’ll use AI to determine various types of information (such as objects or text) in real-time. It may not ship this year.
Ungraded: this is also why the next iPhone will have a physical camera button.

Round 1
More flexibility for app icon placement on the iPhone home screen+1
Round 2
‘Notification summaries’ are provided by a new AI system+1
Risky Pick
visionOS 2 has keyboard passthrough when in an environment and it works with any keyboard, not just the ones Apple makes-1

We do not see Sam Altman’s face in the presentation💪
Some AI features on the Mac require an M2 or later👎
At least two of Apple’s first-party apps escape iPad compatibility mode on visionOS to become full-blown native apps👎
“Improvements” to Stage Manager are announced👎
Something in iOS 18 picks up the UI used in the iOS 17 App picker in Messages👎
Journal app comes to iPadOS👎
The next version of macOS is named Tahoe👎
Ungraded: Myke has picked this twice on Upgrade, in 2023 and 2024.

Some AI features will be region-locked👎
Some new iOS 18 features will be exclusive to the iPhone 15 Pro line💪
Notes gets new features, such as math calculations and voice recording💪
The next version of macOS is called Sequoia💪
Apple shows off the ability for Siri to control apps, but it’s not launching this year💪
The calculator app comes to iPad💪
The next version of Stage Manager supports more than 4 windows at once on some iPad models👎

RCS is not spoken aloud in the keynote👎
🐝Buzzkiller
Standby mode for iPadOS👎
At least one of the ‘Coming Soon’ environments in visionOS 2 is removed👎
Apple announces some new immersive video content coming to Vision Pro💪
Apple announces a AI deal with Google👎
Vision Pro international availability is mentioned💪
Chatbot features from AI partners are available only to iCloud+ subscribers — after a free trial👎