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As a whole, this WWDC feels like Bikeshedding, Billions of Dollars of Technical Investment Edition.
by kick 6y ago
As a whole, this WWDC feels like Bikeshedding, Billions of Dollars of Technical Investment Edition.
- kick 6y ago"Allow Apple to control who can unlock your car" seems to very quickly lead to "Congratulations, law enforcement will literally never knock, ask or notify when breaking into your car going into the future." I could just be cynical though.
- kick 6y agoiPad improvements are interesting; I can't think of any other product that started with so much potential but was completely fumbled in the same way.
- kick 6y agoiPad Siri literally copies those web chatbots you see everywhere now, design-wise; bottom right corner, larger-than-necessary circle.
- kick 6y ago'Universal Search' seems to be a clone of Spotlight, now on iPad. Interesting.
- kick 6y ago'Draw into any text field and OCR it' is another instance of bikeshedding but I can't help but feel impressed by it.
- kick 6y agoNext in "Are we getting trolled?": they're doing an entire segment on AirPods.
- kick 6y agoSomething probably unintentional that they're highlighting with this particular presentation style (frequent female presenters, infrequent male presenters) is that seemingly every role that they require someone in a position of power talking for, it's male, while the grunt work doesn't seem to have been at all. Personal progressiveness mixed with systemic sexism?
- kick 6y ago"You all have trouble sleeping so we're going to make your phone teach you yoga and meditation" is a very weird thing to do automatically instead of just blue-light reduction (which they already have a feature for) seems weird, but they know the market better than I do I guess.
- kick 6y agoAll of the Watch features feel like they're aimed at a significantly younger demographic than the rest.
- rogy 6y agoThe only thing iPad Pro users were hoping for was real external display support, no sign of that unfortunately.
- lini 6y agoAlthough the presentation video seemed to skip ahead on the car key part on Firefox, I noticed they said the key will be stored only locally on the phone, unless you share it with someone else. Guess we'll see next year when cars equipped with the feature actually start to show up.
- kick 6y agoThey also (seemingly) said you could transfer it to others or disable it without your phone via iCloud, so I'm skeptic.
- krrrh 6y agoIt really isn't too hard to think of ways to do this that involve "iCloud" for key transfer, but keep the locus of control at the car/primary-drivers-phone nexus. Doing it differently would only introduce liability that Apple would rather not have.
- kick 6y agoiCloud is a service that Apple holds users' encryption keys with, and gives up control of to other organizations (which is what they did in China, for example). Given their focus on privacy is almost purely superficial, it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17052802/apple-icloud-encryption-keys-storage-china https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17052802/apple-icloud-enc...
- jhayward 6y agoI agree, although I doubt it will have anything to do with Apple. The automakers will just build in a "lawful access" feature and the hundreds of law-enforcement adjacent agencies will have remote access to that feature w/o any meaningful oversight.
- Austin_Conlon 6y agoWhat would you say they should be focusing on instead?
- kick 6y agoWhen I wrote that, they were talking about many non-improvements and slight adjustments to iOS. I'd say the bikeshedding peaked at the AirPods segment. I don't think they should be focusing on anything in particular; they know their market better than I do, and it seems plausible that consumers prefer bikeshedding rather than major change. I'm just saying it bores me. This is the first time in a long time where the Mac segment has been the most interesting thing, and I'd say that they should probably start doing what they're doing to the Mac to iOS. Even if it's not necessarily things I think that are positive, it's exciting.
- krrrh 6y ago> I'd say the bikeshedding peaked at the AirPods segment. Algorithmically translating spatial audio to correspond with head position is fundamental to AR. It's also cool that it will improve watching movies in the meantime, but you're missing the point if that's all you saw.
- kick 6y agoIt's not novel, though. That's already been done, and with fewer computational resources available.