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What Went Down at WWDC 2019
- vardhanagwal 7y agoThis article will give you a quick rundown of the major releases in this year’s WWDC conference, and help you get a sense of what happened — even if you didn’t have the time to watch the keynote.
- theopencode 7y agoAwesome article...very thoroughly covered a crammed event :)
- umeshunni 7y agoThanks for the article. I really like how it was categorized and had a ToC so that I could read only the sections I am interested in (iPadOS and MacOS in my case).
- vardhanagwal 7y agoThat means a lot :)
- tomglynch 7y agoI dislike how much focus Apple and other companies put on Memoji's, Emoji's, Bitmoji's, Animoji's and all other shitty, cartoon representations of their users.
- etchalon 7y agoYou might dislike it, but one has to assume these companies have data showing users love them.
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- Angostura 7y agoI suspect you and I are not the target demographics. My daughter was extremely chuffed that she will be able to design animojis now on her old iPhone SE.
- vardhanagwal 7y agoPerhaps that's the case...
- mceachen 7y agoPSA: for those that haven't soaked in sufficient britspeak, "chuffed" means delighted.
- vardhanagwal 7y agoThat makes sense, @tomglynch, but I covered it, since it was in the keynote :)
- vardhanagwal 7y agoAdmittedly, I use them pretty frequently myself...
- yoz-y 7y agoEmojis are one of the few reasons why people update their OS. It is a great win for security.
- azhenley 7y agoI've never thought of this, but wow it seems so true. Whenever a new batch of emojis come out, my friends start sending them which entices me to go update immediately.
- stcredzero 7y agoPerhaps they're onto something here. Clickbait in the service of security? The black hats are already using the darker side of mass Internet behavior. "Secure your computer with this one weird trick!"
- lowdose 7y agoDo you have an example of this in the wild?
- oarsinsync 7y agoThis is the only way I'm able to convince my family to upgrade sooner rather than later. Nothing quite like square-box-triggered FOMO to force an upgrade.
- vardhanagwal 7y agoGood thinking!
- TimTheTinker 7y agoExcellent insight. One wonders - how long can updated emojis continue to motivate people to upgrade? Diminishing returns will have to kick in at some point. But there is still more room for innovation in the Messages app.
- jpochtar 7y agoWhy not just auto-update the OS?????????? Non-auto-updating software is the problem
- dewey 7y agoI actually use them a lot via FaceTime and it's definitely motivates me to update faster, so I'm all for it.
- mikeash 7y agoJust let people enjoy what they enjoy.
- imglorp 7y agoIt makes me sad that 47 year old tech (emoticons, 1972) is the fore-running value add of a $900b company.
- saagarjha 7y agoThousands of year old technology (wheels) back billion dollar transportation companies.
- iamleppert 7y agoReally dislike the hate on Nvidia and the half-truth marketing speak about the “$40,000 display”
- draw_down 7y ago> use the best GPU on the planet (not by Nvidia). As best I can tell, you just used the word "hate" to describe the above. Come on.
- sebdedeyne 7y agoAre there any good articles on the full truth about the display?
- vardhanagwal 7y agoWe really don't know much about the display; we just go off of what Apple tells us until it's actually out.
- vardhanagwal 7y agoAppreciate the feedback.
- noonespecial 7y agoI actually had to read it twice to get the meaning. I read "use the best GPU on the planet (not by Nvidia)" first as "well we couldn't get Nvidia so we used the next best thing we could find that wasn't" Gave me a chuckle at least.
- vardhanagwal 7y ago:)
- saagarjha 7y agoIsn’t that what they meant?
- s_dev 7y agoWWDC in bullet points: https://github.com/Blackjacx/WWDC https://github.com/Blackjacx/WWDC
- holy_city 7y agoMulti-mic capture via beamforming is awesome, I wonder if we'll see tighter integration into conferencing systems as a result.
- vardhanagwal 7y agoNicely done!
- blackjacx 7y agoThanks a lot :-)
- ekianjo 7y ago> The Apple Watch has become a staple for many, allowing them to be more active throughout the day, and saving many from life-threatening situations throughout the years of its existence Is this a PR piece?
- crooked-v 7y agoThere are various anecdotes around about Apple Watches exposing undiagnosed heart conditions, though I don't know of any available statistics on the subject.
- briandear 7y ago> though I don't know of any available statistics on the subject Here is a good place to start: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/03/apple-heart-study-demonstrates-ability-of-wearable-technology.html https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/03/apple-heart-s...
- vardhanagwal 7y agoNope, it's not.
- wil421 7y agoI will try to do some additional walking if my watch tells me I’m close to meeting my goal. I should still exercise more but a small improvement is good as long as I have a sedentary desk job.
- ekianjo 7y agoHow is that "allowing them to be more active throughout the day" ? You were already in a position to be more active if you wanted to. It's not like the watch increased your productivity 10 fold and suddenly freed up an additional 3 hours of your day to go exercise. The wording is questionable.
- saagarjha 7y ago
- phaedryx 7y agoWhen I read the phrase "no pun intended" in an online article, I always wonder why, if they don't intend the pun, they don't just rephrase it?
- mikecsh 7y agoI’ve never understood why people ever feel the need to point out whether a pun is intended or not. I never see (rhyme intended) for example, so why puns? To me it tends to disrupt the flow of the prose
- stcredzero 7y agoIt really means, "I didn't originally intend the pun, but now I'm running with it and proudly announcing it to the world." That phrase would be even more disruptive.
- libria 7y agoIt's joke explaining to a broader audience. Tell a joke that's too subtle, only a few find it funny. Call attention to it and more will understand, but those who found it funny as subtle, no longer will. I think it's bad style. You don't lose anything by people missing your joke. But you risk being viewed as vain and unfunny by cueing people to laugh whenever you think you're clever.
- vardhanagwal 7y agoA follow on Twitter would be appreciated: https://twitter.com/vhanagwal https://twitter.com/vhanagwal
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- saagarjha 7y agoHacker News doesn’t usually take kindly to these kinds of comments, FYI.
- jedberg 7y ago> No More iTunes For those of you excited by this, don’t be. All they did was split one app into four. It still works the same way. Yes you can see your device in the finder. But you can’t do anything with it other than upgrade the OS and back it up. Want to put a movie on your iPhone? You’d think you could just drag it from finder. But no, you have to load the AppleTV app, which is just the movies and tv part of iTunes, import it, and then go back to finder to hit sync. Honestly, the experience was better with iTunes, which was awful.
- eugeniub 7y agoWho still uses the stock iOS app to watch videos? There are a thousand other ways to put video files on your iPhone or iPad and tons of great apps like VLC for iOS, Infuse, etc. that offer many ways of adding video files. I don't fault Apple for not adding new features to the legacy iTunes-iOS media sync system.
- jedberg 7y agoI do. It’s the best way to let my kids watch videos on planes and car trips while honoring parental controls and guided access.
- s3r3nity 7y agoPretty much all of my non-technical family members, who are (rightfully) scared to download shady apps that promise free services with no downside.
- cmsj 7y agoI think a better question would have been "who uses a computer to sync iTunes videos to an iOS device?", but even that falls down when you start factoring in Internet caps and suchlike.
- jedberg 7y agoI’m not talking about iTunes videos. I’m talking about my other videos, like all the ripped kids DVDs that I use to entertain them.
- GeekyBear 7y agoAlso new, updating Apple TV and HomePod to support multiple users. I was kind of expecting to see multiuser support be made available for home iPad users in addition to the existing support for schools, but that still hasn't happened. Another nice accessibility feature was support for a new vocal user interface on iOS and Mac.
- Tinfoilhat666 7y agoPlatforms State of the Union 2019 had more technical stuff. Here's a good summary of the event/video: https://blog.solomonvictorino.com/wwdc19-platforms-state-of-the-union-highlights/ https://blog.solomonvictorino.com/wwdc19-platforms-state-of-...
- vardhanagwal 7y agoThanks for sharing that resource!
- saagarjha 7y ago> However, this release did not cover the iPad, and is only available for iPhone—more on that later. Note that iPod Touch exists.
- hadrien01 7y ago> Apple doesn’t sell this stand with any mount, but for most professionals, they’ll already have a VESA mount to use with it. No: you have to pay $200 (!) for a VESA mount adapter to use your existing VESA mount.
- dwaite 7y agoMy understanding is they had requirements that the screen could be moved from environments and rotated while mounted, so they came up with a custom quick-release magnetic + mechanical connector. I'd think normal VESA mount holes would have worked fine as an option, especially since there has to be suitable depth with the power socket. However, I'd assume lack of extra holes to be an apple design decision sooner than assume a money grab.
- ChristianGeek 7y agoSo many things missing from this (multi-user support in tvOS, Apple Arcade, new text editing features and mouse support in iPadOS , etc.) and what’s there reads like a PR piece.
- davnicwil 7y agoI missed 'Sidecar' - the thing that'll let you use an ipad as a second screen for a mac. But I don't understand if it's true second screen, i.e. a native replacement for what the Duet app does, or more like a second screen 'portal' for specific apps that implement that functionality.
- tpetry 7y agoHow does it work? Wireless with airplay (is slow when streaming to apple tv) or by cable?
- AgentME 7y agoThe ipad shows up just like another monitor to the Mac. You can move your mouse into it and drag windows to and from it. The ipad seems to just be a dumb display (and touch input) when connected. I believe it requires a USB-C connection.
- davnicwil 7y agoAh, that's great! I use Duet (paid app) for this at the moment but it's disappointingly flaky - it seems to only work sometimes and when it does, you'd better not touch anything unless it resets and stops working again. Worth the setup effort for longer sessions but hardly practical for shorter ones on the go (which let's face it, is the main usecase). Having this native so it 'just works' out the box would be amazing.
- vardhanagwal 7y agoShoutout to Heartbeat for featuring this post.