While I'd never pay the $6999 for the Mac Pro, it's far more interesting to me than the potential headset. I am interested in seeing what Apple would propose a headset to be used for, and how they'd implement it, but I'm nowhere near sold on it being useful at all for the average person. I still remember the hype surrounding Google Glass all to well to expect an Apple headset to be a revolutionary product.
What is the TDP? The performance promised seems too good to be true, what's the catch? I'm sure their advertised workloads are hardware accelerated so I wonder how it performs off-the-beaten-path so to speak.
Because it’s a highly impactful product (any of them) that impacts the lives of millions, and the showmanship (however plastified these days) is legendary and attracts people.
I wouldn’t call it a SuperBowl-level event, it’s actually bigger-we used to band together in the office to watch them (at the end of the day here in Europe) in every tech company I worked in.
I have a Macbook, an iPhone and an iPad. They shown a lot of what's coming on for these products's OSs in the near future. They're not _selling_ any of that to me in the sense that I'm not paying any extra as they're free upgrades.
I like to know what's going to change. It's similar to reading the KDE newsletter, or the Linux kernel stuff to know what's new and how I might benefit from it or have to adapt to it.
Aside from that, they were presenting a whole new product, very different from any other products in the same-ish niche. I also watched the Sony PSVR2 announcements, and recently the Meta Quest 3 launch videos. I find it interesting. Why wouldn't I watch it?
Yes, that too. The audience reaction was a big part of it. Watching online still felt like you were part of the show when you could hear the audience get excited at the same time you did.
Outside of the themes, words, and presentation talents of Steve, these recent Apple events are making me realize I miss his wardrobe. I knew what he wore. I knew he really wanted to show me something, not just himself. Having every person in this demo wearing some highly unique designer clothing item results in it feeling inauthentic.
The unbearable weight of being is probably better tackled than all of them going and studying algae trying to figure out how we stay alive 10 more years with heavy anxiety.
Haha I died reading this. I was feeling the same. Like isn’t this not WWDC? Apple is definitely losing the appeal for devs to watch these. It’s no longer technical and all marketing.
I've had it disabled for months. Hopefully they fixed it.
Edit: genuinely curious -- why is this being downvoted? I have had autocorrect disabled for months because it was more trouble than it was worth. I do hope they have fixed it. What gives?
It's a reference to how autocorrect will turn "fucking" into "ducking" as of now. I understood this as with iOS17, you'll finally be allowed to have "fucking" autocompleted and not autocorrected away - thought I might be wrong :)
Yeah I stopped receiving robocalls entirely just two weeks after switching to Pixel :) Hopefully iOS a big enough footprint to finally make that industry unprofitable.
They would provide the photo. You choose your photo and everyone else gets it which is already true with the small contact photo and name which are shared automatically.
I see! That's better/easier. I hope they've come up with something that still looks decent for the majority of my contacts who don't have or share a contact photo or who (shock) don't use an iPhone.
I know this is cynical but might a degraded experience for your Android contacts be a significant plus of this feature? (edit: I mean for Apple Inc, not for the end user). Like green bubbles.
Maybe, to the extent that people care enough about it to bug their android-owning contacts about it. I don't think that will be a very large number of users, especially since this is pretty trivial compared to the features you lose in iMessage group chats by adding SMS contacts.
Not only that, but one thing that bothers me about Apple's demos is how unusual all the models are. Why can't they just look like normal people? I did see an old person who they referred to as "your neighbor" and I felt like that was the first time in awhile I had seen a "contact" in an Apple demo that wasn't some young-20 year old with some wild fashion and hair styles.
Haha, it's fine to me that they're using attractive hip young (or old) people in their promos, it's just funny to imagine how these features will play out in the real world given the kinds of pictures real people tend to take of themselves.
The quality of those photos always gets me, makes me feel like Michael Douglas' character in Falling Down demanding that his burger look like the one in the advertisement.
The lack of an article was a bit startling here, i.e. "iPhone" not "an iPhone". Is this something they have been doing for awhile? Sure we've heard "Siri" and "Alexa" personified for awhile, but raising the device itself to a Person? Perhaps I've just missed this all this years and I'm more sensitive to it in a post-ChatGPT world.
Wow! That's amazing my brain has completely ignored it or, at the least, passed it off as nothing. My brain must be interpreting assuming or expecting AI in the presentation and making things stand out accordingly.
It's one of those Silicon Valley-isms that no one uses outside of product presentations. IIRC it goes all the way back to when Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone
Looking forward to playing with Journal, but I'm a bit underwhelmed by the preso, doesn't feel like they made it really unique vs third party journals. I was hoping for more of an integration to messages and individual app experiences, especially health. Talked about this a month ago:
So far, in 35 minutes the Worldwide “Developers” Conference seems to be exclusively about consumer features, though they did mention API as an afterthought :)
That's pretty typical of how they do WWDC though... big consumer feature announcements, then share new developer features throughout the rest of the week.
The number one thing I wish for in an iOS update is for the text selection and the cursor placement to become less terrible. Currently it is an absolutely unusable nightmare.
My main use case for my iPad is writing, and the guy who invented the "smart" text selection seems to hate my fingers - it is impossible to place the cursor where I want it to be. It tries to "intelligently" snap to the beginnings and endings of words and it gets it wrong 90% of the time.
I know that you can move the cursor with press and hold on the spacebar or on the text, but having to wait a second every time I want to move the cursor is the most annoying thing in the world. It is so much easier to edit text on my much smaller Android phone screen, it's ridiculous.
Just place the cursor where I tap, how hard can it be!
I don't know how many times I've somehow selected the wrong word and then can't seem to select the word just to the left of it that I really want to copy...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187466
I wouldn’t call it a SuperBowl-level event, it’s actually bigger-we used to band together in the office to watch them (at the end of the day here in Europe) in every tech company I worked in.
I like to know what's going to change. It's similar to reading the KDE newsletter, or the Linux kernel stuff to know what's new and how I might benefit from it or have to adapt to it.
Aside from that, they were presenting a whole new product, very different from any other products in the same-ish niche. I also watched the Sony PSVR2 announcements, and recently the Meta Quest 3 launch videos. I find it interesting. Why wouldn't I watch it?
Steve sounded like a kid who was amazed at the stuff he was talking about. It brought an energy to the presentation.
Also this set so far is very dry. Probably the least exciting WWDC I’ve seen in the last 15 years
I miss WWDC several years ago
Edit: genuinely curious -- why is this being downvoted? I have had autocorrect disabled for months because it was more trouble than it was worth. I do hope they have fixed it. What gives?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_(application)
cc. Popl, Linq, Dot, etc.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gboard-the-google-keyboard/id1...
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The lack of an article was a bit startling here, i.e. "iPhone" not "an iPhone". Is this something they have been doing for awhile? Sure we've heard "Siri" and "Alexa" personified for awhile, but raising the device itself to a Person? Perhaps I've just missed this all this years and I'm more sensitive to it in a post-ChatGPT world.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662525
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662853
My main use case for my iPad is writing, and the guy who invented the "smart" text selection seems to hate my fingers - it is impossible to place the cursor where I want it to be. It tries to "intelligently" snap to the beginnings and endings of words and it gets it wrong 90% of the time.
I know that you can move the cursor with press and hold on the spacebar or on the text, but having to wait a second every time I want to move the cursor is the most annoying thing in the world. It is so much easier to edit text on my much smaller Android phone screen, it's ridiculous.
Just place the cursor where I tap, how hard can it be!
You can also use two fingers anywhere on the keyboard and there's no wait.
Feels like I am in bizarro world. What is so wonderful about this?