Universal Control is probably the best thing they announced today
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Problem is, these are all fairly mature OSes. There's no new "wow" features to add. That's why you get keynotes where they spend 40% of the time talking about memoji.
On the other hand, some people here do get unreasonably excited about (what I see as) trivial stuff. 😁
What a meh update, and Firefox Or Chromium browsers are still better with extensions (useful extensions for everything).
Last year an ugly new design, 3D maps on a Mac like if that’s a life changer, a new Safari which is still broken and behind their competitors when is about browsing (and it’s not the most advanced browser, that’s marketing bs 🤣) not the battery bs, slow FaceTime and iMessages on intel macs and a big fail with bugs like trustd and others; and this year a new purple wallpaper, a new Safari layout which will fail the first six months after release to start again the same fail cycle.
It’s all meh. Apple should keep working in the same macOS for at least two years to fix everything and then release another one with new useless gimmicks.
Last year an ugly new design, 3D maps on a Mac like if that’s a life changer, a new Safari which is still broken and behind their competitors when is about browsing (and it’s not the most advanced browser, that’s marketing bs 🤣) not the battery bs, slow FaceTime and iMessages on intel macs and a big fail with bugs like trustd and others; and this year a new purple wallpaper, a new Safari layout which will fail the first six months after release to start again the same fail cycle.
It’s all meh. Apple should keep working in the same macOS for at least two years to fix everything and then release another one with new useless gimmicks.
I wonder if universal control replaces side car? ie supporting extended display? I imagine universal control has the same mac model limitations as sidecar, which would be unfortunate
iCloud+ and Universal Control look to be the best from what I saw.
What an absolute disaster this WWDC presentation was. No new Macs either which means it's an epic Fail.
Universal Control and Safari Tabs for me. I normally use Brave, but can't pass up tab organization on any browser.
EDIT: Also, Hide My Email has piqued my interest.
EDIT: Also, Hide My Email has piqued my interest.
The new macOS usually releases in Sep. or Oct. although last year Big Sur released in Nov. Maybe pandemic related delay?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history
"The best Mac Monterey we have ever made."
Finder still untouched. I hate how it handles “merge” and “overwrite” of files and folders, and without information on what’s to be replaced, and the speed of which copy-move operations perform. Windows still excels in this area.
So... does AirPlay to Mac mean that the new iMac... is... the new entry-level apple display?
For reference, Big Sur was released in November. I suppose it depends on the industry but if you use this for work, I'd wait several months after the release before upgrading.
Universal control is going to really increase my productivity. I can just run Adobe CC apps on my MacBook Pro to the side and not worry about them bogging down in any way the speed of my 5K iMac. A whole Mac dedicated to Adobe is the dream. It doesn’t even really matter how fast your Mac is as those apps will eventually eat all your ram and bog things down.
I am very glad. The under the hood changes from 10.14 to 10.15 to 11 were a nightmare for sys admins. I expect Big Sur to Monterey upgrades will not break a lot of things.
It's possible to still get people excited about mature OSes. Microsoft's next major Windows revision has generated a lot of buzz in the media. Apple's marketing forte used to be that they could convince you that you needed something you did not even know about before. That magic seems to be completely missing from this software presentation.
I think part of the problem is that this is so over produced and clearly shot weeks, if not months, ago. It feels like a cheesy infomercial and less like a developer keynote. With that lag, it seems they haven't been able to adjust last minute to address the new elephants in the room, but there are some old elephants they should have had the foresight to address.
Apple's App Store policy has been under a lot of scrutiny lately both for the economy of it and their gatekeeping ability of it (the fees are high, bad developers easily abuse the ratings and ranking systems to scam customers, and Apple may not delivering on its privacy marketing). Microsoft took a big shot across Apple's bow with the reduced 12% fee, and there were some major stories about App Store ranking and rating and IAP abuses this past year. So it seems really in poor taste for Apple to continue saying "Apple" paid developers $X billion dollars. Apple didn't pay it but customers did, it should have been higher, and people are starting to wonder whether it's even worth it.
Apple could have and should have addressed at least some of those points in this presentation.
Universal control seems cool. For the rest, meh, like the rest of this WWDC.
If that's the best Apple's devs and designers can do after a year of working from home, maybe they really do need to go back to the office.
If that's the best Apple's devs and designers can do after a year of working from home, maybe they really do need to go back to the office.
I just gotta say, Universal Control makes having to use a PC for my day job even more painful right now. lol