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It's that time of the year again...WWDC!

Last year's conference was dominated by Apple Intelligence...which never really materialized...what's this year's conference going to bring us?

Rob, PJ, and our new co-host, Dave Lewanda (bio episode coming soon) get together to discuss what will be this year's focus.

Will we finally get an answer around Apple Intelligence?
Are there new features and/or hardware around the bend?
Could this "Developer Conference" actually be something that "Developers" want?

All of this and more in the latest episode of Tricky Bits!

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Way back in the 1960s...computer graphics were born with Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad...then in the early 80s, James Clark at Silicon Graphics publishes his paper on the geometry engine...becoming the birthplace for IRIS GL (later, OpenGL).

Then came DirectX...along with a flurry of also-rans...

With the explosion of commodity hardware in the mid-90s, games, graphics, and APIs would never be the same.

Join Rob Wyatt and PJ McNerney as they take a look down memory lane and explore the evolution of graphics APIs through the decades and ponder what the future might look like with these mighty compute engines.

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25 years ago, Avery Brooks of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fame, was on a commercial for IBM...where, after decades of promises, asked the question that was on everyone's minds: "It's the year 2000...I was promised flying cars. Where are my flying cars?"

In a similar vein, this latest episode explores the current state and historical context of Apple's AI venture, Apple Intelligence. The Steve Jobs's era ended announcements with 'available today'; and yet the present-day promise of AI features have yet to materialize.

Is Apple able to deliver on its AI promises? Is anyone? Either way, what are the challenges and pitfalls and utility of any approach?

Come join the fun with the latest episode of Tricky Bits