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Apple WWDC 2015
- tosh 11y agoSo, what will we see? A new Apple TV/homebase? Updated Macbook Pros?
- akassover 11y agoThe 15" Macbook Pros were updated in May (to include the Force Touch trackpad).
- mcintyre1994 11y agoAnd 13" were a little before that, I think maybe March?
- tosh 11y agoWhen do you think we'll see a real update to them? End of the year? 2016?
- shurcooL 11y agoDefinitely after Thunderbolt 3 is out. It will be a big deal IMO (https://twitter.com/shurcooL/status/607351368387469312 https://twitter.com/shurcooL/status/607351368387469312).
- 8draco8 11y agoLast update was pretty good especially in case of 15" MBP, increase of SSD read to 2GB/s and write to 1.5GB/s is, in my opinion, significant. Current CPUs are still very good.
- iSnow 11y agoAsk intel. Whenever Skylake ships and Thunderbolt 3 is ready.
- mcintyre1994 11y agoApologies if I fat finger downvoted this. @tosh, this would be my answer too.
- skrause 11y agoMost likely no new hardware.
- Corrado 11y agoI don't know, I would bet on a new Magic Trackpad based on the new "taptic" trackpad in the 15" MBP. I'm really enjoying clicking anywhere and having it register properly and I can see it as a direct upgrade to the existing Magic Trackpad.
- dangero 11y agoI think we'll see a vastly larger SDK for the watch.
- ossreality 11y agoCheck Google IO from a year or two ago. Can't take credit, that's Koushik Dutta's joke.
- threeseed 11y agoApple Music with iOS8.4 released. OSX 10.11 / iOS 9 previewed (will include Google Now feature courtesy of Cue/Spotsetter). Apple Watch 2.0 Beta released with Native SDK. iPad Pro with stylus previewed. iBook Creator leveraging PRSS magazine creation released.
- toksaitov 11y agoI'm not sure about iPad Pro. I think they'll just go with two-window interface for A7+ iPads and maybe iPhone 6 Plus. iPad Pro for October.
- x0054 11y agoHopefully Apple will follow last year by focusing on making iOS more open to 3rd party products. I know iOS Finder would be too much to ask for, but I will anyway. iOS Finder, please. For OSX, I would love it if they just left it alone (features wise) and put the entirety of the next year into making it stable and responsive. Every day I wish I could downgrade to OSX 10.9, but I need the latest xCode. Unlike most people who complain, I love the new UI, like the look, but hate the slow graphics. Pleas, Apple, stop with the features, finish fixing all the bugs!
- threeseed 11y agoIt's been widely rumored that iOS 9 / OSX 10.11 will be Snow Leopard releases i.e. they will focus on stability and performance. Hardly unsurprising since given they share so many components any improvements will translate to better battery life for the Apple Watch (which will be needed when Native SDK is released).
- paulojreis 11y agoLet's hope rumours are right. Creeping featurism should not be Apple modus operandi (Yosemite/iOS 8).
- nailer 11y agoI'd just like to be able to open links in apps, eg so a Twitter profile opens the Twitter native app, rather than a web browser. Android has done this for years.
- realityking 11y agoIntrestingly YouTube has retained that feature even after the stock app has been removed.
- pjmlp 11y ago- Swift improvements - Security improvements (sandbox and friends) - Metal progress - Overall stack improvements that drive OS X to be the best UNIX workstation currently available.
- M8 11y agoIn terms of software: more of Android/Win features being borrowed (e.f. split screen "multitasking"). Possibly better icons and GUI overall (but only if Ive realised that he should stick to hardware).
- coldtea 11y agoIt's not a product show -- though they do showcase some products from time to time, they do so mostly for major new stuff (e.g. new iPhone model etc). And they usually don't show minor updates (e.g. laptop speed bumps etc). What we'll certainly see is new iOS and OS X versions announced. A new Apple TV might be shown (though there's rumors about delays with content deals etc). A new MacBook Pro not so much, especially since they were recently updated and they wait for Skylake.
- guardian5x 11y agoUpdated iPad Pro with Stylus and Kickstand, connect a keyboard / keyboard cover and mouse/trackpad, able to run full OS X, but also touch optimized iOS Apps.
- mlitwiniuk 11y agoThat would be too awesome. This is in fact the main reason why Surface Pro looks so tempting. iPad is gread device, but not beeing able to code on it is it's main problem (although I still love my device)
- threeseed 11y agoThis is definitely the missing piece in Apple's development story. Microsoft has already moved to a one app, run anywhere model which is very compelling from a development perspective. Apple as yet hasn't provided their take on it. I expect at some point soon they will deprecate AppKit, move everything into UIKit and use the iPad Pro as the vehicle to drive it i.e. it will only support iOS and Universal apps.
- vbezhenar 11y agoThis is unlikely. Apple's stance on this matter is to make a clear division between professional computer (OS X) and entertainment consumer devices (iPhone, iPad) and corresponding interfaces (touch vs pointer). I don't see this changing. They even afraid to make iFinder or iCloud Drive for iOS.
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoVery unlikely just because Apple said so? I don't trust what they say because in the past they have talked down about certain tech only to turn around and implement it later. The biggest example of this is when they switched to Intel CPUs.
- berntb 11y ago3rd party covers have built in keyboards. A new generation of Macs with touch screens and a good iPad emulator could allow the gigantic iOS application base to run on OS X? But it probably won't work well enough for Apple. I'd prefer better Linux integration with iOS and OS X. I need 'apt' more than I need OS X's App Store. :-( (And yes, I'm hell banned. Too easily trolled when I have allergy problems. :-) )
- mlitwiniuk 11y agoI'm quite scared, that they will in fact introduce so called "Rootless" kernel-level security - not beeing able to do everything with my computer would be a problem for me and I will definitelly consider switching to ie. Dell XPS with some linux on board.
- jbrooksuk 11y agoSupposedly it'll be configurable on OSX.
- MCRed 11y agoIt would be very out of character of Apple if it weren't configurable. Yes, iOS is secure, but OS X has always been more open in this regard and there's really no reason to believe that they won't continue this trend. After all, when they introduced App signing they could have made it so the mac would only run signed apps. Of course they didn't do this.
- mlitwiniuk 11y agoSupposedly that possible, but the real question is, if this still will be the case in 10.12? This concern was posted by someone somewhere few versions back, when they introduced code signing explicite allowance for apps not signed properly. This is next step. And as long, as I agree - security is important, judging on their past decisions, they may try to close their ecosystem (but hey, it's "their" hardware and software, their game and their rules - one can always decide not to buy Apple anymoe).
- danpalmer 11y agoThis will be configurable, if only because Apple need developers in their ecosystem, and many developers won't be able to do their jobs on a machine they don't have full access to.
- mrsteveman1 11y agoWhen I read the rumors about it (which are mostly speculation), I essentially expect them to do the following (on OS X at least): A) Make the Apple-provided system files read-only, maybe even put them on another read-only partition like iOS does. They explicitly said[1] they were locking down system files 2 years ago at WWDC 2013: "in the future as we start to lock down the /System folder, you might actually get write errors.". As /System is already owned by root, write errors at /System means elevating to root won't be enough. B) Assuming "rootless" is in fact a superset of what I mentioned in A, and going by the rumored name, they could be restricting what the 'root' user can do by default on OS X, matching some configurations of Linux where simply gaining root access doesn't automatically gain you total access. In other words, root can do things like load signed kexts, install system-wide software, etc, but not overwrite critical system files or perform various other sensitive actions that shouldn't be possible just by entering an admin password (which a LOT of software packages require during installation). edit: also, they did include Hypervisor.Framework in 10.10 which is a significant engineering investment but doesn't seem to have a purpose at the moment (major virtualization vendors aren't likely to use it, neither are app developers. That leaves Apple...). I honestly wonder if they're planning to use it for security purposes in 10.11+. They did something similar with XPC, introducing it for use by developers first, and then in 10.10 they started using it extensively to isolate things in the OS (including Extensions). [1] http://asciiwwdc.com/2013/sessions/707 http://asciiwwdc.com/2013/sessions/707
- cylo 11y agoA cheeky list of sessions whose titles will be revealed after the Keynote: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/schedule/ https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/schedule/
- tmsh 11y agoHaha, yeah: 'Well, looky here..'
- raverbashing 11y agoYeah, a lot of the session titles are still embargoed until the Keynote.
- mjsweet 11y agoI for one would love to see a VR headset!
- SiVal 11y agoDo videos of these post-keynote sessions ever become available to people not attending the show? Registered developers? General public?
- k-mcgrady 11y agoThey become available to registered Apple developers via the dev site (developer.apple.com/wwdc/videos). This year for the first time they will also be streamed live.
- JakeGelfand1881 11y agoGlad to have Apple iOS 9's features , but Google now still looks better. http://goo.gl/w8Dvwy http://goo.gl/w8Dvwy
- dylanjermiah 11y agoI couldn't see a time? Anyone know what time it starts?
- caractacus 11y ago10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm UK Liveblogs on the usual Mac sites, Ars, etc. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/liveblog-apples-wwdc-keynote-starts-at-10am-pacific-on-monday/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/liveblog-apples-wwdc-ke... Edit: EST mindfart
- BinaryIdiot 11y ago>10am PST / 3pm EST / 6pm GMT I think you mean 1pm EST :)
- caractacus 11y agoYes. Yes I did.
- valleyer 11y agoI believe it's 10 am PDT, which is 5 pm GMT. Daylight savings time is in effect in the U.S. currently...
- binoyxj 11y agoHere http://www.appletimer.com/wwdc/ http://www.appletimer.com/wwdc/
- sandis 11y agoFor those in different timezones, keynote's at 5PM UTC. Countdown: http://www.appletimer.com/wwdc/ http://www.appletimer.com/wwdc/
- darkFunction 11y agoIt's probably premature, but I'm hoping they will make good on this statement: > When the binary interface stabilizes in a year or two, the Swift runtime will become part of the host OS and this limitation will no longer exist. The current ~10Mb overhead is a hard sell to your manager when it will double your application size and slow down the development team in the short-term.
- supercoder 11y agoThen what are the positives to sell to your manager ?
- gonzo41 11y agonot using objective c
- jsmthrowaway 11y agoI don't get the hate for Objective-C. I think it does a better job with the "object-oriented semantics bolted on to C" requirement than C++, having extensively used all three. Something about brackets and semicolons speaks to me. Who knows. Maybe it's just me. Now, having said that, maybe Swift is better for the use case, but it's not a reflection upon ObjC IMO.
- MCRed 11y agoI love Objective-C and once I saw it, I stopped programming C++. I'm not a masochist. I think Swift is interesting and might be really great-- too early to tell for me. But Objective-C has done well, and especially when paired with Apple frameworks has delivered the best platform for building mobile apps ever seen.
- getsat 11y agoHave you looked at C++14? It's a completely new beast.
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- ghshephard 11y ago* millions worldwide will be able to watch sessions streamed live.* I'm guessing that's hyperbole, but it's rare for Apple to exaggerate on anything. Does the keynote (presumably the highest volume streamed session) actually hit two-million viewers?
- pfortuny 11y agoThey will be able. It is not guaranteed that they will want to. That is the way to say the truth with hyperbole.
- bertil 11y agoMany non-developers treat the keynote as the source of information for future products. Many proto-developers start with the iOS platform. Sounds a lot, but non unreasonable to me. Are there estimates of how many people have registered a developper account?
- rdsnsca 11y agoAt WWDC 14 Apple said they had 9 million registered developers.