Apple Recaps 18 Key Announcements From WWDC 2024 Keynote in Short Video

Did Apply announce the text messaging enhancement that will allow Apple and Android devices to text each other a bit easier/friendlier?
 
The mock hoopla over the iPad calculator made me chuckle. I think Apple introduced all the AI things they needed to. I really hope Siri is good now. We'll see. I'm a little disappointed that the generated images are kinda sucky, but that's something that can improve over time.
 
The writing AI assistant built in is going to be nice! I use a 3rd party Grammarly subscription for this currently.
 
oldwatery said:
Yeh like what 😳
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Among the integrated AI features the ability to create your own movie from your own photos stands out. Apple did away with this capability when they retired Aperture. They have finally brought this back. Thanks to them for listening to the cadre of customers asking its return.

But, I think the most significant announcement was that the Apple Intelligence Private Cloud will be powered by Apple Silicon. See my post here: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...wdc-2024.2428701/?post=33195793#post-33195793
 
tomsop said:
Can't wait for the next Chris Lawley video where he gushes over everything (Apple can do no wrong). I find many people have become cultish around Apple - they will take any scraps and put on a smiling face - even Dan. I do give Apple credit for the iPad calculator and the handwriting improvement features - but these were the only biggies besides AI SIRI - the core apps still suck and too much window dressing/eye candy updates (custom UI and Emoji stuff they been doing for the last 5 years now). No new stock apps or major redesigns - I feel Safari needs to adapt more Arc browser stuff. We need overhauls not tinkering with existing stuff. Yet I will prefer these updates to sticking with existing OS for another year. They have the money I just want them to invest more into software - why is Day One still better than the stock Journal app even after this point? Stuff like that.
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Your ignorant
 
Gigolo Joe said:
18 minor software bumps with zero hardware bumps = "action packed"???

Swiftly losing the will to keep up with Apple as a brand - given the self defeating attitude to their core hardware customer base, and the disdainful lack of software support for older machines that are still very much useable..

Also finding Macrumors fanboy approach wearing very thin..
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WWDC is a software developer event for software development. It is not a hardware showcase.
 
mode11 said:
Any chance that could make using iMessage on Windows better? It's a kind of minimum viable solution at the moment.
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Interoperability with competitors tends to be a minimally viable effort, if supported at all.
 
ApAx said:
Interoperability with competitors tends to be a minimally viable effort, if supported at all.
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Yes, as a Windows user I'd noticed! Microsoft's Phone Link app built into Win 11 connects to the iPhone via Bluetooth, so you can send / respond to messages and calls. But there is no message history. I was speculating on whether RCS support would affect that situation at all, since it's more open than iMessage.
 
mode11 said:
Yes, as a Windows user I'd noticed! Microsoft's Phone Link app built into Win 11 connects to the iPhone via Bluetooth, so you can send / respond to messages and calls. But there is no message history. I was speculating on whether RCS support would affect that situation at all, since it's more open than iMessage.
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Agreed. One of the reasons my personal Apple products and work's Windows machine stay so segmented. It would be nice to use an eSim number on my iPhone for work and have it connected to my Windows 11 computer.
 
All Noddy Features... sigh.
Meantime I thought I would play with "Home"... yeah that's a REAL disappointment. I have a Sensibo so I can control our heat pump (remote died) , it can do "Temperature" and "on/off" .
Where is the Fan speed control ?
Where is the vane control ?
Where is the ability to do a dehumidify cycle ?

The Sensibo App on my iPhone can do all that and way more.

Why do I need to "sign up" to all the different manufacturers to get anything working, why can't "Home" do this for me just like I would install Apps from the App Store.
Where are all the useful things ?, I don't care about lights, I want to control the underfloor heating, where are the POE security cameras ?

The solution to do these sorts of things is go to Zigbee, so if I am going to need a Zigbee hub to do the useful things why bother with "Home" ? The major electrical manufacturers have gone this way and I suspect they will be around doing more far longer than Apple will.

"Home" has the feel of OSX Server, Airport, Hypercard...all great ideas that got abandoned.
 
Septercius said:
Is anyone else bored by AI? AI this, AI that, AI something else. I'm getting old and I'm set in my ways; I'd rather do things my own way than cheat and have a computer guess at what I actually want. And it's not AI, really. It can't learn itself. It's trained.

Apple also has this weird fixation with (fetish for?) emojis.

This was one of the few keynotes that I skipped entirely. Even a 3 minute summary video was excessive.
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In personal computing context, AI solves the organization problem (sort of).

For example, I have 15,000 photos on iCloud (and that is considered a small number compared to many people). There is no way practical way to organize or sift through those photos without AI. Facial recognition and geolocation can only do so much. And often, there is no practical way to filter down photos of people I take many pictures of (my kids) where we frequently are (my house). AI finishes the job.

I have toughly a half million emails in my personal inbox. Again, sifting through it all using searching and metadata filters is good, but it can only get you so far. AI is like that last-mile; it can find the right info from the right email message that isn't otherwise logically findable with the usual attribute searching.

That said, AI is not perfect and unlikely traditional searching and filtering, I can never be 100% confident it found everything because I can never really know what it was looking for.
 
Dorv said:
Yeah, I hate it when they don't announce new hardware at their software focused event. World Wide DEVELOPERS Conference.

(And if you're talking about fanboys in these threads, I don't think we're reading the same thing)
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Durrrrr.. Macrumours raison d'être is filling the chasm between Apple's tiresome secrecy around standard hardware upgrades, roadmaps etc..

Do tell, genius, why Apple still slips behind other tech companies such as Nvidia, after all these years..
 
I really don't give a rat's butt about being able to create emojis, but I would like an Apple Mail app that once again remembers folder where I save emails (a lost feature I've bugged Apple about since January 2022), maybe an Image Scan application that is more flexible and remembers the last window size, a Music application interface that makes sense.
 
MacRumors said:


Apple promised that the WWDC 2024 keynote would be action-packed, and it absolutely was. With new updates like iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia, along with a whole new Apple Intelligence suite of AI features, there were a ton of announcements.


To help out, Apple has shared the nearly three-minute video above highlighting 18 key things that it unveiled during the keynote.

Of course, we'll have our own in-depth coverage of Apple's announcements here at MacRumors, so be sure to follow along to learn more.

Article Link: Apple Recaps 18 Key Announcements From WWDC 2024 Keynote in Short Video
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This is easily the most embarrassing video Apple has ever produced.

“Make. Your. Own. Emoji.”
 
Septercius said:
Is anyone else bored by AI? AI this, AI that, AI something else. I'm getting old and I'm set in my ways; I'd rather do things my own way than cheat and have a computer guess at what I actually want. And it's not AI, really. It can't learn itself. It's trained.

Apple also has this weird fixation with (fetish for?) emojis.

This was one of the few keynotes that I skipped entirely. Even a 3 minute summary video was excessive.
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Yes you are old. And grumpy. It's ok, we'll get off your lawn and enjoy our emojis like the rest of the world.
 
I usually get pumped and excited but I was multitasking and not fully invested in the first half of the show. However, Enough with the emojis already…. If that is what r&d spend their time pushing out. Atleast we get the beta to test out for those brave testers among us.

Also, It felt like they were playing catch up with AI and stuffing it into the iOS that we already saw in the other apps. Rewrite text and image manipulation are already out there. Siri sounded the same ish. The chat gpt upgrade from few weeks ago and that fluidity is what Apple would have wanted but they didn’t. Also calculator app, mmm like I will use my iPhone thanks 🙏🏼 not my iPad but some kids will find it useful in their school I hope.
 
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