Note that I might not be able to get it entirely live due to other arrangements, but I’ll see what I can do. I’ll almost certainly be watching it after the fact though regardless.

• Stream start. People using their  Watches and iPhones. A11y and health stuff highlighted. To the donut. Tim under the the rainbow. Watch, AirPods, and iPhone. They could make your life better! AI/ML exist. Apple Intelligence iPhone.

• Watch. It saves your life! New design. Series 10. Bigger display, thinner.

• Jeff to talk about it. On the Presidio? Larger display. 30% real estate, comparable in size to Ultra screen size. Rounded corners on case and screen. Wider aspect ratio. Ion-X glass, goes deeper into the case. Wide-angle OLED. Usually you’re looking at the watch from an oblique angle, so they made it bright off-axis. Power efficient, 1 hz updates (one a second) in always-on mode. New watch faces that takes advantage of the size. Jet black polished finish - silicon nanoparticles on Al, 30 step anodization. Rose gold and silver too. 9.7mm, 10% thinner than S9. Further miniaturization of components. 30% smaller speakers w/o performance impact. Listen to music and podcasts through speaker now. New metal black that integrates the aerial. Maintains 50 water resist. Larger charging coil for faster charging. 30 minutes to get to 80%. 10% less weight with Al. Titanium is now also an option, replacing stainless steel, 20% lighter than S9 stainless steel. Natural, gold, slate grey colours. New bands that match the cases. New faces that match. Carbon neutral, 95% recycled Ti. New SIP. S10. 4-core ANE. Yes, normal watch features use ML. watchOS 11 adds more AI features like surfacing information. Translate app on watch, with speech recognition.

• Sumbul on health features. Watches can help with things like loud environments, AFib, menstuation, sleep, etc. Now the Series 10 can help with sleep apnea. 80% of cases are undiagnosed. Accelerometer is used to help detect it. 30 days of data to analyze for signs. ML model trained against clinical data, then validated. Clearance from FDA and friends soon, 150 regions. Also available on S9 and Ultra 2.

• Julz on fitness. Unfortunately, I have to step away, but I’ll be back soon! (18 minutes on IIRC)

I’m back after having work and medical stuff!

• Depth gauge and water temp sensor. Depth shown automatically when submerged. Good for snorkelling. Oceanic+ on Series 10. Track metrics underwater. Tide tracking app in watchOS 11. Workout app can now show speed and route plan.

• Jeff. 399$ base, 499$ with cellular. Now for Ultra.

• Stan to mention that. Recapping the features of it. New finish option available for it - satin black. PVD coating. Recycled Ti like the Series 10, includes updated bands. Milanese loop now added. Hermes band for Ultra now available, for the bougie folk. 799 as before. Now carbon neutral?

• Tim. AirPods. Next gen.

• Kate on AirPods 4. Hard to make things that fit everyone. They’ve used a big data set to make it easier. H2. Open ear, revamped acoustics. Personalized spatial audio. Nod or shake head for affirmative Siri answering. Voice isolation. Touch controls. Type C charging case. Smaller case, 30 hours battery in case. Variant of the normal AirPods with ANC/Transparency and other Pro features is available for people who prefer this form factor over the Pro. Wireless charging on the case. Speaker on it for Find My. No plastic wrapping, less packaging. 129$ for base, 179$ for ANC variant. Coming on the 20th. New colours for AirPods Max, personalized spatial audio and Type C at the same price. AirPods Pro.

• Sumbul on the AirPods Pro. 1.5B people have hearing loss. Three new features for AirPods Pro 2. Hearing protection. Passive noise reduction via the tips. Reduces louder intermittent noises at 48kHz. Preserves dynamic range. 80% haven’t had their hearing checked. Hearing test with clinical validation, 5 minutes. Tap when you hear the tones. 75% diagnosed don’t have assistance for hearing loss. Hearing aid mode. Personalizes the hearing range needed after a test. Works for media played too. Clearance expected soon and coming this autumn, >100 regions. Coming in an iOS 18 update.

• Kate. Tim. iPhone. Models on your iPhone, if you care. A new era, they say.

• Kaiann on iPhone 16. Golden Gate Park. Al, 85% recycled content. New colours; ultramarine, teal, pink. More durable glass. Up to 2000 nits and down to 1 nit. 6.1” and 6.7”. No mini, sadly. Action button on the basic iPhone. Context sensitive action button. Camera control button. Slide over it to adjust camera functionality. Revised camera bump. Visual intelligence features also on the camera button (I think this is an a11y thing).

• Sri on silicon. Memory and bandwidth needed for those AI features. And efficiency. A18 is in the basic phone. 16-core ANE. 2x perf benefit for ML. 17% more system memory bandwidth. Second gen 3nm. 6-core CPU, 2P/4E. 30% faster than A16 in iPhone 15. More efficient, same perf in 30% less power. 5-core GPU. 40% faster than A16, 35% more efficient than A16.

• Craig on Apple Intelligence. The palace of arts. Recap of the Apple Intelligence stuff that they covered in WWDC. Focus on privacy-preserving high-context usage, with PCC for what can’t fit on device. Those Apple Silicon servers are power efficient…. too bad we have no Xserve. Visual intelligence features use that new camera button. Beta in en_US next month, more languages coming up next year. Point it at things to identify what they are, from looking at a restaurant’s menu to what kind of dog a dog is. Third party services can use the camera button for visual intelligence features with user consent. i.e. Google and ChatGPT shown.

• Piyush on the camera stuff. Camera control is the fancy name for the button. Intended to be used in either landscape or portrait. Flush with case, sapphire front. Opens camera app and acts as shutter button when pressed. Tactile switch with haptic feedback for multi-stage button. Capacitive sensor for the festures. Light touch to hide UI elements and show an overlay. Slide for zoom, double tap for other controls. Third-party apps can use the new button. 48MP main camera, 26mm focal, 2um quad-pixel, 100% focus pixels, f/1.6, lens coating, sensor-shift OIS. Merging high and lower resolution captures for better all-around images. 2x 12MP telephoto mode on main camera with software, 52mm, 1um, 100% focus pixels, f/1.6, senor-shift OIS. “Fusion camera” with dedicated imaging pipeline. 12MP ultrawide, 13mm, 1.4um, 100%, f/2.2, lens coating, and now has autofocus. 2.6X more light than before. Now enables macro photography. Spatial capture for stereoscopic photos and videos. Watch it on the goggles! Reduces wind noises. Redesigned photos app in iOS 18, as covered in dubdub.

• Kaiann. Gaming, something Apple is notoriously good at. Revamped thermal design, with rearranged SoC and heatsinking. 30% better sustained performance. Ray tracing on the basic iPhone now. Go play RE7 on your cheaper iPhone. Supports that generic looking mobile game too! Bigger battery and more efficient SoC. iOS 18 coming too, as previously mentioned. Live video for 911 calls. Promo video. 799/899 for base/plus.

• Tim. iPhone Pro.

• Joz on it. Design changes. Larger displays, 6.3/6.9” on Pro/Pro Max. Smaller bezels to make it work. Grade 5 Ti. half the weight of stainless steels. Stronger and more scratch resistant than lowe grade Ti. Black, white, natural, and desert colours. Internal Al chassis, bonded to Ti. Graphite aluminum sub structure. Better battery life. Yes, AI features.

• Sri on the Pro SoC. A18 Pro. Same tech. Same ANE, 35T op/s? Faster than A17’s ANE. 15% faster than A17 Pro for the AI features. 6-core GPU. 20% faster than A17 Pro. 15% faster CPU than A17 Pro. Larger cache in A18 Pro than A18. “ML Accelerators” - I think this is SME? New display controller (for always on/VRR) and USB3 controller is only in Pro. New ISP and encoders/decoders.

• Della on pro camera. Fusion camera, 48MP, 24mm, 2.44um, 100%, f/1.78, 2x telephoto @ 48mm, lens coating, 2nd gen sensor shift OIS. 48MP HEIF/ProRAW. 48MP ultrawide, 13mm, 1.4um, hybrid focus pixels, f/2.2, AF. 12MP 5x telephoto, 120mm, 1.12um, 100%, f/2.8. Tetraprism. Camera control on Pro as well. Update for two stage focus coming for automatic focus. Style adjustment that work with image pipeline. Control pad to control tone and colour, can change after shooting and during preview. Basically real-time grading.

• Paulom on video. Demo video. Cinematic slow motion. 4k120. Faster sensor and new faster bus and ISP. Frame by frame gradiing with Dolby Vision in real time. Shoot directly to external storage. Slo-mo and normal 120 FPS shooting. Can change speed after shooting. Third party camera apps are using the new camera button gestures.

• Joz. Audio. Four mics with lower noise floor. Spatial audio capture. Audio mix. Uses ML to separate voices from a capture and change the mixing. Remove background noise, emulate a recording studio acoustics, etc. Can now record layers over tracks in Voice Memos, for instance.e. recording vocals over recorded instrumentals. The Weeknd’s cinematographer and photographer got to use the new Pro, using slo-mo, etc. It’s like a normal camera to them. MagSafe cases that have the new cutouts needed. Qi 2 supported. Reducing packaging waste, fibre based. 999/11999 for Pro 128/Pro Max 256. Preorder Friday, ships 20th.

• Tim. Recap. That’s it.

Why is this particular advertisement okay on Lobsters?

There was a rumor that iOS 18 will support capturing photos as JXL. There was nothing about this in this event, nor is it a listed format in the spec sheet. However, someone just pointed me to this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avvideocodectype

static let JPEGXL: AVVideoCodecType

and if we follow the link: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avvideocodectype/4354004-jpegxl

JPEGXL

The JPEG XL video codec.

iOS 18.0+

Still no 60 Hz display for a 1000$ smartphone, and base storage at 128 GB. This is a joke, but the shills will keep buying it anyway.