Sequoia screen recording nags, iOS 18 Photos app changes, Apple Arcade woes
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance give their feedback on the new features unveiled in iOS 18 beta 5, including Distraction Control and significant Photos app design changes. Apple oversteps the mark with screen recording permission dialogs in macOS Sequoia, the DOJ wins their antitrust case against Google, game developers report frustrations with Apple Arcade, and more.
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- macOS Sequoia adds weekly permission prompt for screenshot and screen recording apps - 9to5Mac
- Google’s $20B default search deal with Apple violates antitrust law, judge rules - 9to5Mac
- Apple Arcade developers frustrated by long delays in getting paid, no incentives to make Vision Pro games - 9to5Mac
- Disney+ adds its fifth immersive Environment for Apple Vision Pro - 9to5Mac
- New SpongeBob SquarePants Environment comes to Apple Vision Pro - 9to5Mac
- iOS 18 beta 5: Here's what's new - 9to5Mac
- iOS 18 beta 5 adds new Distraction Control feature for Safari - 9to5Mac
- Apple removes Carousel in Photos as part of changes based on iOS 18 beta feedback - 9to5Mac
- Report: M4 MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and iMac on track for this year - 9to5Mac
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mayo last week we were talking about the curious decision by Apple to launch the new Siri design in I. |
| 0:05.6 | OS 18.1 without any new functionality for Siri and I explained like my first instinct |
| 0:12.1 | particularly with type the Siri was to ask it a question about the Cincinnati |
| 0:15.6 | Reds. |
| 0:16.6 | So I asked who is the starting pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. |
| 0:19.7 | Knowing full well that Sierra has never been able to answer that question for me. |
| 0:24.0 | And of course, even in 18.1 it didn't. |
| 0:26.8 | But then we got some feedback from David, who said he was listening to the episode, |
| 0:32.1 | paused it and immediately asked |
| 0:33.7 | Siri to tell him the starting picture for the St. Louis Cardinals and he said |
| 0:38.1 | it worked. |
| 0:39.1 | So I was like, huh, is this some bias against the Cincinnati Reds? |
| 0:42.8 | Like why isn't this working? |
| 0:44.4 | Is there some missing data? |
| 0:46.4 | So I decided to ask, who's the starting picture for the St. Louis Cardinals? |
| 0:50.5 | Didn't get an answer, just got the same Google results as I get when I asked for the Reds. |
| 0:55.0 | I asked in pretty much every like incantation, incantation I could think of. |
| 1:00.0 | Who is the Cincinnati Reds pitcher tonight? |
| 1:02.0 | Who will be the Reds pitcher tonight? Who will be the Reds pitcher tonight? |
| 1:04.0 | Over the weekend, I asked different times of the day. |
| 1:08.0 | Maybe they wouldn't, maybe Siri wouldn't know the answer |
| 1:11.0 | until like the lineups for that day were official even |
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