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2020 WWDC Pickies

jbiatek 3rd January 2022 at 5:47pm
Winner: James

Points are doubled for everything since WWDC is in the first half of the year.

🥇 Round 1 (3 points)

HostPickScore
Jason "Apple announces a processor transition, but nothing about new consumer hardware" 6
John "Apple is going to introduce a standalone display at WWDC 2020" 0
  • "Costs less than a Pro Display XDR"
  • John is very confident. Jason thinks this might be the year.
James "Messages gets new notification features and the ability to 'unsend' a message" 0

🥈 Round 2 (2 points)

HostPickScore
Jason "The Messages app is overhauled with a Catalyst version" 4
John "New Memoji options are featured" 4
James "Xcode comes to the iPad" 0

⚡️ Lightning Round (1 point)

HostPickScore
Jason "A new iMac will be announced" 0
John "The iPad finally gets widgets on the home screen like the iPhone has" 2
James "Widgets come to macOS" 2
  • James initially wanted to pick the iPad, but John got to go first.
Jason "Apple puts an emphasis on improvements to SwiftUI" 0
John "The iPad gets external display support" 0
James "iOS will allow users to change the default web browser" 2
Jason "Apple allows developers to better handle the Apple Watch's always-on display" 0
John ""No new features" for iOS and iPadOS, or at least an emphasis on stability over big new features" 0
James "Picture-in-picture comes to the iPhone" 2
Jason "Tim Cook will appear on a stage" 2
John "Some sort of mental health feature for the Watch" 0
James "There will be a new feature relevant to the pandemic" 2
  • The hand washing timer of Apple Watch is counted for this pick.
Jason "There will not be any developer transition kit this time" 0
John "There will be a developer transition kit, and it will be roughly a Mac mini" 2
James "Sleep tracking for Apple Watch" 2
James "New Apple Watch faces" 2
James "Shortcuts finally gets folders" 2
James "New AR/VR features for iOS" 0
James "The iPhone gets an 'app drawer' separate from the traditional home screen" 2
James "App slices for iOS" 2
  • This is an Android feature where just part of an app can be downloaded and run.
James "A new way to share watch faces with others" 2
James "New AirPods" 0

🏆 Scores

  1. James: 20 - (4/14 * 5) = 18.5714285714
  2. Jason: 12 - (4/7 * 5) = 9.1428571429
  3. John: 8 - (4/7 * 5) = 5.1428571429

After James's 12 lightning round picks made both episodes very long, a cap of 5 picks was imposed.