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If you watched the keynote you’d be able to tie together mentions of BNPL and ML as features announced. I also thought that the demo showing cropping out conte

If you watched the keynote you’d be able to tie together mentions of BNPL and ML as features announced. I also thought that the demo showing cropping out content from an image was impressive - but it’s the type of “tent-pole” feature Apple uses in stores and advertising to show how powerful their newer devices are - older phones don’t have the AI features. They time it well - guaranteed that with the iPad improvements we’ll see a new iPad to demo them. Frankly, I’m excited. Apple’s managed to allow me to run 8 apps at the same time on my iPad Pro if I plug in a second monitor. On an M1 chip that could run full macOS if allowed and designed that way. Yep, basically Apple turned iPadOS into Windows 7 Starter Edition for netbooks (which was limited to running three windowed apps at a time, if I recall?). It’s cool. Give it another year or two and they’ll have figured out how to present more apps on screen - and they’ll sell me an M3 chip to do it, probably. Speaking of basic iPad functionality, I’m still waiting for the ability to listen to Spotify in the background while watching videos at the same time. No rush, Apple. I know you just got around to marking messages as unread, a feature I think my BlackBerry Pearl could do back when I was waiting for Copy and Paste and an App Store. Let me know when I’ve the AI needed to take screenshots of individual windows on my iPad now that they can overlap, that would be quite useful. Or swipe to scroll when using Sidecar. Biggest disappointment: the keynote made zero mention of Shortcuts app on macOS. Will I ever be able to set timed automations on my Mac like I can on my iPhone? Will we ever get - not just feature parity - but a really awesome, well-integrated story to tell about automation across all these devices? (I suppose the answer, now, as always, is to write a native cross-platform app, but there’s a no-code story that’s been very slow to develop here…)

lstamour 4y ago
Also, Google might get a lot of well-deserved flak for killing products, but I still miss Bento every single day. Thanks, FileMaker by Apple, for releasing and then killing an excellent competitor to Microsoft Access and Notion well before it’s time. I wish they’d just kill FileMaker already, it would be so much better as an abandoned feature of iCloud since I’d get it as part of my Apple One subscription and they wouldn’t up sell me on enterprise features I don’t need in order to, you know, share things with others. Apple’s need to call some products business and other products consumer means it can never fully adopt consumer products like SharePlay and iMessages within their business products like FileMaker or MDM. Slack could have been an Apple product, but Apple can’t figure out how to make and price it’s products for small businesses and freemium. Not to mention I’d pay more if I could add more people to my family plan and help manage the family’s devices, but nobody seems to want to do that either.
theshrike79 4y ago
> I’m still waiting for the ability to listen to Spotify in the background while watching videos at the same time. What kind of a brain do you have when you can watch a video while listening to music? What's the use-case for this?
- lstamour 4y ago
  Exercise for one - I like listening to music to keep a beat going while exercising but I also want to occupy my brain and watch a video. Especially when watching live content, such as lectures or slow conference presentations, it can be nice to have some chill music in the background. Finally, there’s always the use case of wanting to listen to your own music while playing a video game and not miss out on the video game sound effects. Even better if they can use some of their advanced AI on an app-by-app basis to remove noise in videos or remove music tracks from videos automatically and focus on the talking. Then I could put my own music in the background or leave it silent to focus better. I can do this on a computer with Rogue Amoeba’s apps and VST plugins, but I can’t do anything remotely like this on an iPad Pro.
timeon 4y ago
> Shortcuts app on macOS well they have mentioned at least that I will be able to run them from Spotlight. Something I was wanting to do with Services since I came across Quicksilver app back in the days.

lstamour 4y ago

Also, Google might get a lot of well-deserved flak for killing products, but I still miss Bento every single day. Thanks, FileMaker by Apple, for releasing and then killing an excellent competitor to Microsoft Access and Notion well before it’s time. I wish they’d just kill FileMaker already, it would be so much better as an abandoned feature of iCloud since I’d get it as part of my Apple One subscription and they wouldn’t up sell me on enterprise features I don’t need in order to, you know, share things with others. Apple’s need to call some products business and other products consumer means it can never fully adopt consumer products like SharePlay and iMessages within their business products like FileMaker or MDM. Slack could have been an Apple product, but Apple can’t figure out how to make and price it’s products for small businesses and freemium. Not to mention I’d pay more if I could add more people to my family plan and help manage the family’s devices, but nobody seems to want to do that either.

theshrike79 4y ago

> I’m still waiting for the ability to listen to Spotify in the background while watching videos at the same time. What kind of a brain do you have when you can watch a video while listening to music? What's the use-case for this?

lstamour 4y ago
Exercise for one - I like listening to music to keep a beat going while exercising but I also want to occupy my brain and watch a video. Especially when watching live content, such as lectures or slow conference presentations, it can be nice to have some chill music in the background. Finally, there’s always the use case of wanting to listen to your own music while playing a video game and not miss out on the video game sound effects. Even better if they can use some of their advanced AI on an app-by-app basis to remove noise in videos or remove music tracks from videos automatically and focus on the talking. Then I could put my own music in the background or leave it silent to focus better. I can do this on a computer with Rogue Amoeba’s apps and VST plugins, but I can’t do anything remotely like this on an iPad Pro.

timeon 4y ago

> Shortcuts app on macOS well they have mentioned at least that I will be able to run them from Spotlight. Something I was wanting to do with Services since I came across Quicksilver app back in the days.