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With WWDC26 just around the corner, The Trio burns off some Google I/O feelings before getting to the speculation they actually care about. Steve breaks down why AI-slopified search might be quietly destroying the Web's economic model, Aaron wonders what any of these agentic tools actually do right now, and Kotaro lays out a case for why this might finally be the year Siri stops being a punchline. Also: Xcode Pro is coming. Probably. Apple, please don't.

## Chapters

00:00 Introductions

00:52 Google I/O — "AI" All the Things

09:12 Google I/O — Killing Search with "AI" Slop

13:32 Google I/O — "Agentic Commerce" is Coming For Your Business

15:09 WWDC26 Speculations — Dynamic Widgets

17:58 WWDC26 Speculations — New Siri (Finally)

20:36 WWDC26 Speculations — AppleClaw & Xcode

26:27 WWDC26 Speculations — Folding Phone Tea Leaves

28:24 WWDC26 Speculations — HomeOS

31:11 WWDC26 Speculations — Out of the Box

37:32 WWDC26 Speculations — New Foundation Model

41:49 Outro & One More Thing...

42:51 Tag

## Show Notes

- Google I/O 2026 went all-in on AI, with Kotaro noting the near-total absence of Kotlin, Jetpack, and Flutter talks at this year's developer sessions.

- Gemini 3.5 Flash launched as the new "affordable" model and turned out to be significantly more expensive than its predecessor.

- Steve takes apart Google's AI search redesign, arguing it quietly destroys the economic model that funds the Web, including Google's own ad revenue.

- Aaron's deadpan verdict on Google's AI search demos: "the only thing it showed was it generating these giant slop docs. Who wants to read those?"

- Kotaro and Aaron speculate that WWDC26 could bring more dynamic, context-aware widgets, ones that are smarter about timing and context than the current static rectangles.

- The Trio agrees the headline WWDC feature is a Siri that actually understands intent, with Shortcuts workflow building as a hopeful bonus.

- Kotaro floats an "AppleClaw" style personal assistant via iMessage, letting developers submit agentic tasks to an Xcode Cloud backend.

- The folding iPhone question comes up: does it run iPadOS, iOS, or something in between, and how will apps scale across the form factor?

- Steve expects Apple to plant HomeOS seeds at WWDC, APIs and features that will only make full sense once a HomePod-with-a-screen arrives later in the year.

- The Trio caps the WWDC wishlist by accidentally inventing Xcode Pro, Apple's inevitable premium developer subscription tier.

## Links

**Google I/O 2026**

Google I/O 2026: https://io.google/2026/

Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026 in 13 Minutes: https://youtu.be/qCfARlv74jQ | 100 Things We Announced at I/O 2026: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/google-io-2026-all-our-announcements/

**WWDC26**

WWDC26: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc26/

**One More Thing**

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Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.