I'm guessing there will be a slider in Accessibility, and I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict that if it ships looking like how it did today, a lot of people will be using that slider.
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Apple Highlights Key WWDC 2025 Announcements in Two-Minute Video
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If millions of engineering hours was spent on "expanding useless functionality", you'd feel that's wasted opportunity over things that you've been asking for.
Running local inference pretty much eats all of that memory and when you have 5 windows open, you're bound to almost always use swap.
Yeah when iPad was only running <=3 apps at a time.
More than that, you'd need more ram.
This is the first time Apple marketing material has ever sent that "what's up, fellow kids?" vibe.
Apple's usually so dialed in on tone.
That's the one thing that irks me with this new Apple... attempts at being cool and trendy that don't resonate with the full spectrum of users.
Completely missing the boat. Apple's goal is to make technology invisible. Apple Intelligence is being deeply threaded through everything, not some "app" or website that you need to go open.
Liquid Glass is not just a visual tweak, but a fully object-oriented interface redesign that brings joy and fluidity to using said technology.
Maybe you no longer work at Apple because you don't understand this? 😇
There is literally nothing in this video that I'm looking forward to. Mostly superficial eye-diabetes and some features no one asked for, but the software division needs to justify their staffing and pay. And somebody's gotta entertain the people who bought those stupid VR goggles.
I am genuinely not one of Those People who just like to complain. I'm only doing it because I have nothing nice to say.
I am genuinely not one of Those People who just like to complain. I'm only doing it because I have nothing nice to say.
Maybe you work at Apple (or wish you did) because you actually believe this word salad?
Yet another assault on readability because it Looks Super Cool. As I get older, it becomes increasingly obvious how age discrimination in the tech industry hurts their ability to understand how this **** makes their devices more difficult to use for people with eyes more than 40 decades old.
Amusing that not a single person in that whole hour and a half uttered the word “Siri”.
The whole thing was a huge disappointment and only highlights the state of Apple. And they need new presenters that know how to speak and don’t use meaningless bombast.
The whole thing was a huge disappointment and only highlights the state of Apple. And they need new presenters that know how to speak and don’t use meaningless bombast.
Uggh I hate this "fake-kind", "YAASS queen" voice and language they used. Snarky even? I hate it everywhere I see and hear it, even from a few friends. There's a time and place for it sure (your drunk partying and laughing with friends maybe), but, when you take it out of that place, it loses it's charm and just becomes annoying. I don't think it's supposed to be constant and everywhere in life. It screams "I don't care about anything, everything is so funny haha, nothing is real or worth caring about, and everything I feel is fake and a performance for others" ... which is sadly something the younger generations are absorbing and embedding into their culture. From what I've seen...
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I'm speechless. This "new" interface isn't just rubbish; it's an infantilized, low-contrast, glossy nightmare that actively spits in the face of every basic human interface guideline. Text over the background? That's pure anti-human design at its utterly dreadful. And "Apple Intelligence"? that's something a low-level model could cough up on a bad day and then they top it all off with that pathetic end skit.. a final, insulting slap in the face to the very developers they supposedly rely on
My point was that there’s much love for these features by iPad users in that thread. They don’t feel it’s useless, you do. They’ve been asking for these updates for years that suit them and are big deals to them, you haven’t. One desire was addressed for one group of people, that’s what matters to them and Apple, and it’s better than ignoring users altogether. What are your desires that have not been addressed (that may be at some point, so everyone wins)? I see meeting any longstanding demand as a plus. If it was totally useless and wasted time in the eyes of a large majority of users and saw nothing but backlash, then that’s certainly a negative, and several people in this particular thread, which is not exclusive to iPadOS, seem to feel that way. If you ask me, a complete redesign of the OSs is closer to useless than this, but designs always evolve, it’s not unexpected.
Regarding your second paragraph, I thought we were talking about iPadOS. With macOS, 8 GB is not enough (for me) at all, I need at least 32 GB. My dad, on the other hand, is extremely happy with his 8 GB M4 mini compared to his 16 GB 2011 mini. Different strokes for different folks and their needs.
As for your last paragraph, I’ll take your word for it, I haven’t had an iPad in many years.
I am sure this is very appealing to Millennial women but wow that was cringe as I can imagine even down to the penchant for swearing in the most mundane situations. Cool features. though.
It's like they're running an experiment to see how low they can crank the contrast before nobody can even use it.
Many asked for iPhone mini in this forum. Clearly flopped. What people ask in a particular forum in a particular thread is such a small sample size that it's not really statistically significant. So what I think is useless holds practically the same weight as those that think is useful.
i totally agree. especially that weird white-on-all-glass setting. that is the reason i brought up the - there must be a way to disable that - setting too. i am sure this will be the case as apple was always mindful on that topic.
visual effect-wise i still think that the marketing story is properly built up - albeit the background video with people sliding machined glass blobs around is pretty ridiculous. having a consistent design language across platforms helps too. creating an easy to use, intuitive UI across platforms with different human inputs (touchscreen, mouse, eye tracking) is very challenging and as far i understood no one got this right so far.
on the other hand this should not come like a trade-off wrt usability.
Boomer tech, that's what this reeks of.
That and teenagers, a grown working adult should not be impressed with this trash.
Genmoji ffs.
That and teenagers, a grown working adult should not be impressed with this trash.
Genmoji ffs.
"Completely missing the boat. Apple's goal is to make technology invisible"
No, Apple's goal is to make money. And the Wall) street's opinion is that Apple's AI strategy is "Underwhelming." And I agree. They're playing catch--up with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and pretty much everyone else.
