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Your "buts" are dead-on. Everything felt so distant and unauthentic. They should require their execs and presenters to not read from somewhere else and do it li

by Yhippa 6y ago

Your "buts" are dead-on. Everything felt so distant and unauthentic. They should require their execs and presenters to not read from somewhere else and do it live.

toufka 6y ago
There is a Pandemic going on. This fully online WWDC certainly affected the feeling as much as the content.
untog 6y ago
I don't understand why anyone would care about this. What difference could it possibly make? Are fewer people going to buy ARM Macbooks because the execs sounded a little wooden?
- joakleaf 6y ago
  When I saw the PowerPC to Intel move, it felt like a company with ambition and vision who knew what they were doing with technology. It was a confident CEO that used his own words to passionately live-demo the products his company was developing and selling. He almost apologetically told us that Apple had to make the change to deliver the notebooks he had promised two years before -- But couldn't with PowerPC. It made sense. And then, he showed us that all along Apple had the foresight to plan for this many years ahead. It was inspiring, and I was really excited about it. As a user and computer scientist, it made me curious about OSX. As a developer I wanted to support their platform, and went on to work on iOS apps a couple of years later. Apple felt like the future. This time, I feel unenthusiastic, and wondering where to go next... Despite the fact, that I objectively think this has the potential to be far more significant. Delivery with confidence and passion for the product always matter. A lot.
  - untog 6y ago
    I’m sorry, but to me what you just described is a sales pitch. I consider it vitally important to see through them even evaluating technical decisions.
  - jychang 6y ago
    Meh. You're in tech. The CEO could be a dildo on a stick for all I care, the only thing that should matter are the products itself. Otherwise you're just buying into a cult.
    - joakleaf 6y ago
      No... I am sorry, but I really need confidence in the person leading the platform I am developing for. My income depends on it, so I need to feel confident that the platform will actually move forward in the right direction. I don't have confidence that a dildo on a stick can make the right decisions... But what do I know... I suppose, I have heard stranger things.
  - Shorel 6y ago
    > He almost apologetically told us that Apple had to make the change to deliver the notebooks he had promised two years before -- But couldn't with PowerPC. It made sense. And then, he showed us that all along Apple had the foresight to plan for this many years ahead. And what is the difference with the current switch? I mean, apart from the presentation, which I do not care about.

by Yhippa 6y ago

Your "buts" are dead-on. Everything felt so distant and unauthentic. They should require their execs and presenters to not read from somewhere else and do it live.

toufka 6y ago

There is a Pandemic going on. This fully online WWDC certainly affected the feeling as much as the content.

untog 6y ago

I don't understand why anyone would care about this. What difference could it possibly make? Are fewer people going to buy ARM Macbooks because the execs sounded a little wooden?

joakleaf 6y ago
When I saw the PowerPC to Intel move, it felt like a company with ambition and vision who knew what they were doing with technology. It was a confident CEO that used his own words to passionately live-demo the products his company was developing and selling. He almost apologetically told us that Apple had to make the change to deliver the notebooks he had promised two years before -- But couldn't with PowerPC. It made sense. And then, he showed us that all along Apple had the foresight to plan for this many years ahead. It was inspiring, and I was really excited about it. As a user and computer scientist, it made me curious about OSX. As a developer I wanted to support their platform, and went on to work on iOS apps a couple of years later. Apple felt like the future. This time, I feel unenthusiastic, and wondering where to go next... Despite the fact, that I objectively think this has the potential to be far more significant. Delivery with confidence and passion for the product always matter. A lot.
- untog 6y ago
  I’m sorry, but to me what you just described is a sales pitch. I consider it vitally important to see through them even evaluating technical decisions.
- jychang 6y ago
  Meh. You're in tech. The CEO could be a dildo on a stick for all I care, the only thing that should matter are the products itself. Otherwise you're just buying into a cult.
  - joakleaf 6y ago
    No... I am sorry, but I really need confidence in the person leading the platform I am developing for. My income depends on it, so I need to feel confident that the platform will actually move forward in the right direction. I don't have confidence that a dildo on a stick can make the right decisions... But what do I know... I suppose, I have heard stranger things.
- Shorel 6y ago
  > He almost apologetically told us that Apple had to make the change to deliver the notebooks he had promised two years before -- But couldn't with PowerPC. It made sense. And then, he showed us that all along Apple had the foresight to plan for this many years ahead. And what is the difference with the current switch? I mean, apart from the presentation, which I do not care about.