Paul Stenhouse: Gmail's AI summaries, Instagram's new photo formats, Apple renames it's operating system

Instagram isn’t just for square photos anymore  

You can already post images with a rectangular aspect ratio of 4:5, but with 3:4, your photo won’t be cropped at the ends. You can still post a square too.  

My theory is that this is in response to the resurgence of people taking photos on actual cameras again. The tourists in NYC seems to love a dedicated camera - and I don't mean a DSLR, I mean an old school 'digital camera' point and shoot style. 

It's a little sad – one of the things that made Instagram special was that it forced creativity into a square. Same as with Twitter – 140 characters made things fun.  

 

Your work Gmail will now start automatically summarizing emails  

Google's Gemini investment is coming to your inbox if you like it or not. Gmail now creates summaries automatically for complex threads, and they’ll appear above the emails themselves. These are already available but require you to request it manually. The update will just be for mobile, and it may take up to two weeks before you see the feature.  

 

Apple's Operating Systems are being re-numbered  

According to Bloomberg, the iOS16, or iPadOS3 will all align under the year of release. So: iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26. Will the iPhone be next? iPhone 25 and iPhone 26? 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks at B.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Take Time, and Paul Stenhaus joins us. Now, good morning,
good morning. What's up with Instagram? They're no longer square?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah? This is getting a bit much, isn't it. There
was a really good time back when tweets were one
hundred and forty characters and Instagram images were squares, and
that was it. You had to be creative within your
square and that was kind of the beauty of it.
And now there's reels, and there's slide shows, and there's
all sorts of aspect ratios of pictures. Now you might

(00:41):
have noticed that they started changing it. They went from
squeers recently to sort of taller images, and they've just
announced that they are going to now let you put
up three by four photos. Now, those are the ones
that you typically used to take on ya Kodak camera, right,
so you now will be able to put them at
that same ratio on Instagram. Now you might be thinking, Paul,

(01:03):
that it's just the ratio. Who cares? Why do I
think this is interesting? I have a theory, and I
give you my theory. Yes please, Okay, So I live
in a pretty touristy area of Brooklyn and New York.
And what's really interesting is that there's all these tourists
that come to New York City with like point and
shoot cameras. And I don't mean fancy DSLRs with big lenses.

(01:27):
I mean like, it's like we've transported ourselves back to
two thousand and six and you used to take your
digital camera out and you take photos of you and
your friends doing stuff. It seems to be back, do
you know when they shoot in four B three? And
I think that's the reason why Instagram is doing this.
I think there's a resurgence of the point and shoot

(01:48):
camera taking place right now.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
There is. My sixteen year old daughter has gone around
our house and gone through all the drawers and found
all of our old cameras, which then require us to
sort of find batteries or reach charges and then but no,
but that's a nightmare because then you've got to find
the cable that you know fits thanks to the computer,
or you have to find something the card can go in.
And I'm like, can you just do this on your phone?
She's like, no, I really need to use this. I

(02:11):
want to use this handheld on camera. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
So I was at dinner last week and I'm not
kidding the table both in front of us and behind us,
we're both taking food photos with a pointtership and I'll say,
what am I looking in right now? But you know,
we got AI on one hand, and then we've got
old school technology, And maybe that's the reason maybe the
kids are rebelling.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, they don't want to make it easy. They don't
want to take a phone that, you know, take a
photo on their phone that they can immediately post. Maybe
they like this process of having to, you know, I
get into something. I don't know, I don't know what.
I'd sort of looked at my daughter and just went
with it. But I didn't actually say to her whine
because I just really liked the photos. I'm leaving it
to it. But yeah, I think you've hit the nail
on the head there. Hey, I'm a little bit concerned

(02:55):
about Gmail and how it's going to start automatically summarizing emails.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yes, and it's coming thus slowly rolling this out of
it weeks. I mean Google has spent I don't know
now how many millions of dollars on Gemini, which is
the AI fancy thing, and so they obviously trying to
get people to use it and try to make it
useful for people so they feel like they, you know,
they're getting some value out of it because you're paying

(03:23):
for it if you use Google for your work email
and calendar and all that type of thing now and
so like it or not, Google is going to start
looking at complex emails, is how they call it, So
I guess emails with lots of replies and at the
top of the email. It's going to start summarizing that
effectively so you don't have to go and read through

(03:45):
all of the Sue and Finance says this, and Joe
and Hr says that, or whatever it is, it's just
going to be able to be summarized into one place.
And it's currently something you can do manually. But again,
here's the interesting part. They're forcing it now to happen,
and it's just going to appear, and they obviously have
so many customers it takes a while to roll these

(04:05):
things out, So it will happen. It'll be on your
mobile phone on the Gmail app if you use that
for work, and it's going to be rolling out over
these next two weeks.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Does this mean that you're going to need to be
a little bit more to the point and not nuanced
to know emails?

Speaker 3 (04:19):
The opposite is going to be for you. So you
can just you could, you should open up your voice
transcript and just like talk into your phone and give
it three hundred words pontificating, and it's going to sort
it out for me. It's going to do your call,
it's going to do your colleagues of favors.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Here's opening. Thank you so much, Paul. Nice to catch up.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
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