Apple rolls out iOS 16 changes, new MacBooks, and more

Yahoo Finance tech editor Dan Howley joins the Live show to detail how Apple is approaching product innovation at the WWDC 2022 event.

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- Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference is underway in Cupertino, California. Among a number of software updates across many of their devices, the big takeaway seems to be the ability to edit iMessages, as well as a new Buy Now, Pay Later service. Joining us now with the recap is Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley, live in California. Dan, give us the breakdown of the biggest announcements that you heard from yesterday and what we should expect to see to our phones and laptops coming up soon.

DAN HOWLEY: That's right, Brian. We saw big updates to basically all the operating systems that Apple has to offer. IOS 16 obviously the big thing that you talked about, being that the option to now edit your iMessages after you send them, as well as retract them after you send them. So that's going to be really good for people with, you know, maybe hot fingers who tend to text under stress.

There's also the ability to customize the lock screen now. So that's something you'll be able to do, add widgets to the lock screen, change the font, change the style of it. You'll also be able to get app updates from apps like Uber, sports scores at the bottom of the lock screen. So a lot of stuff you can do now without having to actually unlock your phone.

As you can see, the new MacBook Air, MacBook Air MacBook Pro debuted. Those are with the new M2 chip. That's the follow up to Apple's M1 in-house silicon. They're promising better performance and better battery life overall with high performance. So that will be really interesting.

I got to get my hands on the new MacBook Air. I got to say, I really like it. It's a lot lighter than I expected. You do get that MagSafe charger back. That's something that a lot of people were asking for. And in fact, it seemed like this entire event was basically Apple giving people what they wanted-- the ability to retract and edit texts, the ability to do more with your iPad-- there's improved multitasking capabilities there-- that MagSafe charger, more working out capabilities from the Apple Watch.

So this really seemed to be Apple's way of giving people what they want, while still knowing what they want beforehand. As, you know, Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder, obviously had said long ago that they don't follow market research, they figure out what people want before they really want it. So and it seems like Apple's doing both now, rather than just relying on what they believe people will want in the future.

- OK. Dan Howley giving us the update from Cupertino. Safe travels back.

Dan was just talking about giving the people what they want. This ability to edit texts--

- This is a whole Pandora's box.

- --it's gotten a lot of reaction on social. And I want to point to some of these because I think it points to how people are viewing this. Remember the conversation a few months ago was about the Edit button--

- On Twitter?

- --on Twitter--

- Yeah.

- --because Elon Musk asked whether people wanted it? Well--

- Apple got there first.

- --this person says Apple somehow beats Twitter to the Edit button. And then another tweet here, Apple made it possible to edit a sent text message and we still can't edit the tweets. And then can we show the third one? This is kind of my favorite. Apple finally got-- going to allow us--

- It's a little dramatic.

- --to edit and delete messages? The world is healing. What edit-- what messages have you sent that possibly are that harmful--

- Well, OK--

- --that you feel like you need to-- the autocorrect I get. I--

- Right.

- A lot of typos.

- Exactly.

- Right. But I guess there's a lot of concern now about whether or not you could edit entire thoughts, right? You say something mean, you kind of dial it back a little bit later. My understanding, though, is that-- and again, I guess I'd have to look at the fine detail here, but it's like you could edit a message that you sent like a day afterwards, right? There's going to be like a period of time by which you're still able to edit it.

Maybe it's going to be a few minutes, and then afterwards you can't edit it anymore. But you know, I mean, if someone sends a text message and it's like really mean, I mean, if they edit it and I can see that they edited that, isn't that another message in and of itself? So it's just like--

- I don't know, I kind of like the history of seeing like how the edit-- how the text evolved. By the way, I'm going to call her out because my producer Val just said it's-- I don't regret the text I send out because I don't drink, which is a fair point. Late night texts are not-- I don't know, is that--

- No, that's the thing.

- --what people want to edit?

- If you see an edit-- if you see an edited iMessage past 2:00 AM, then, you know, mm--

- Fair.

- --uh-oh.

- Fair point.

- Yeah. So yeah, we'll see. I don't know, someone sent me a text message this morning that was really mean because he wanted to test the iMessage feature. And I was like dude, the--

- It's not working yet.

- --the iOS isn't even out yet. I was like, so you just sent me a really nasty text. So if it seems like I'm a little down on this show, that's the reason why.

- Great friends. Great friends.

- I know they're great. Thanks. Thanks. Ahmed, if you're watching this, thanks a lot, man.