Apple Announces macOS Sonoma With Desktop Widgets and More

[Devnul0]

It's not just ordinary widgets though — that bit with the iPhone widget that was on the Mac desktop, what was that about? Was the Mac actually communicating through the iPhone - the widget on the Mac desktop just an image and click target being forwarded?

 

[jgrove]

Crikey can apple fix the current OS before announcing another? It’s like a yearly catch up for all the bugs 🐞🙄

 

[jaw04005]

Don't worry, the initial release will still introduce 10,000 bugs.

But it won't matter because by the time they fix them they'll be ready to introduce Mac OS Redwood. I hate this 1-year development cycle.

 

[FelixDerKater]

Didn't desktop widgets happen around 2001?

 

[krakman]

W T F!!!!!! I had loads of useful widgets in my dashboard back in the day of high sierra and then they got rid of the functionality and now they reintroduce it like they have invented sliced bread!!!!

Apple = Crapple

 

[octopi]

Mac OS Yawn.

 

[Kar98]

Widgets? On a Apple desktop? Party like it's 1999 2005!

 

[rpmurray]

With so little new for Sonoma does that mean Apple will double down on fixing bugs instead?

 

[ghanwani]

Will there be a way to turn off temporal dithering?

 

[VulchR]

I seem to recall desk accessories on the Lisa back in the 1980's. *cough*

Well, that's OK, as long as a bunch of quality control comes along with these incremental updates to the Apple operating systems. And maybe somebody, somewhere, will find a good use for the Vision Pro, and it's nice to see new models of Mac's & MacBooks.

 

[UKBeast]

there must be new emojis. I am so enchanted. Cant live without. 😛

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Has the beta shown up in anyone's System Settings, yet?

 

[headlessmike]

there must be new emojis. I am so enchanted. Cant live without. 😛

They usually come in early spring after the latest Unicode version is released. People always joke about the new emojis but it’s really just Apple keeping up with the latest standards for text encoding. Not doing so would be really bad.

 

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[BigYawns]

The biggest innovation happening for Macs, is from Linux developers.

 

[Gengar]

They need to overhaul Apple Music across macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Windows.

 

[tomtad]

Mac Music lives another day 😂

 

[daneoni]

The name is probably the most interesting part.

 

[azz0r]

I loved how even Apple doesnt use stage manager on its Macs.

 

[contacos]

are the desktop widgets interactive or not? Seems weird to only bring it to iPadOS. What happened to consistency?

 

[rafark]

The lamest OS X release ever. Very disappointing. And no new iMacs on top of that.

 

[Jerry Fritschle]

And no new iMacs in top of that.

By WWDC standards, a great deal of hardware was announced here. You can still cross your fingers for Apple's fall event. 🙂

 

[asiga]

In Spanish the name looks very close to Sodoma, which carries the meaning of what they seem to want to do to the future of MacOS.

 

[rafark]

The most comical fact is that Redmond will start their photocopiers even this time around.

Ugh. I was waiting since like January to post that image in the live keynote thread but I totally forgot the keynote was today.

 

[rafark]

By WWDC standards, a great deal of hardware was announced here. You can still cross your fingers for Apple's fall event. 🙂

Yeah, the new glasses saved the keynote. I loved them.