Dave Mark Joins for WWDC21 Day 1 Reactions

Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance

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 two 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
  • Mail Privacy
  • iCloud+ — Private Relay
  • What browsers does it work with?
  • MailPlane
  • SmallCubed’s Mail Act-On
• 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
  • Outtro
  • The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
  • Active MGG Sponsors and Coupon Codes List
  • You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network
  • BackBeat Media Podcast Network