The show was boring because it was 50% filler to cover the absent Apple TV and streaming service.
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Apple Shares Full Video of Today's WWDC Keynote Presentation [Update: YouTube Version Now Available]
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Totally agree. That "One More Thing" section highlighting Apple Music was just a mess! Iovine blabbing marketing jargon, Cue trying to persuade people to join in on their 2nd take on music streaming and music curation. Very incoherent.
For those of you who are hearing impaired and/or rely on closed captions, the WWDC 15 event now includes captions: http://www.apple.com/live/2015-june-event/
I am definitely mad I was stupid enough to waste more than 2 hours of my time on this keynote.
The new features, especially for the iPhone could have as well been introduced in a .1 update.
The Mac features are very minor.
The music streaming service was introduced by saying "awesome" "super cool" "amazing" and "creative" 500 times but in the end it's just the same as Spotify with the very humbling exception that I have been a Spotify customer for more than 2 years while apple is just now trying to compete.
This keynote definitely shows that apple is not pushing it anymore. It's just maintenance, optimization and upgrades.
The apple watch was cool but I personally don't know anyone who has one.
Also the entire keynote seemed very awkward with the tons of karaoke jokes and even every minor feature was either "super cool" or "amazing".
I have been an Apple fan for a long time and remain to be but this really really disappointed me.
The new features, especially for the iPhone could have as well been introduced in a .1 update.
The Mac features are very minor.
The music streaming service was introduced by saying "awesome" "super cool" "amazing" and "creative" 500 times but in the end it's just the same as Spotify with the very humbling exception that I have been a Spotify customer for more than 2 years while apple is just now trying to compete.
This keynote definitely shows that apple is not pushing it anymore. It's just maintenance, optimization and upgrades.
The apple watch was cool but I personally don't know anyone who has one.
Also the entire keynote seemed very awkward with the tons of karaoke jokes and even every minor feature was either "super cool" or "amazing".
I have been an Apple fan for a long time and remain to be but this really really disappointed me.
For me I am really looking forward to Apple Music, in terms of the presentation if I was Tim Cook I would be very embarrassed of how it was presented especially from executive team members.
Eddy Cue dancing around on stage instead of hitting the facts and why this service is a game changer, he was dressed like he had just come back from a one night stand on the beach..
As for Jimmy (Beats Billionaire) Ivo what a terrible speech, I'm still not sure what he was going on about, just remember seeing Zane Lowe's video and started to put the pieces together.
Anyway, roll on June 30 - lets hope its professional launch.
Eddy Cue dancing around on stage instead of hitting the facts and why this service is a game changer, he was dressed like he had just come back from a one night stand on the beach..
As for Jimmy (Beats Billionaire) Ivo what a terrible speech, I'm still not sure what he was going on about, just remember seeing Zane Lowe's video and started to put the pieces together.
Anyway, roll on June 30 - lets hope its professional launch.
If you thought that was boring you should watch Google's I/O. Now that was a snoozefest.
Yep. This post sums up my feelings about the presentation:
http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/06/facing-the-music/
Yeah imagine if he talked about performance and battery life improvements.
Oh wait he did.
I'll grant you battery life improvements, but do you mean performance improvements to "Find My Friends" and a new Notes app? Or wait, new wallpapers? Simply amazing there, eh Arn?
I was taking aback by Iovine's performance but then I realized he has likely done little to no public speaking in his life. His domain is a small room with a handful of people and I suspect he dominates.
I think sometimes we forget pretty much everyone sucks at public speaking naturally and it takes a lot of work and training. I assume apple execs were hoping for the best with Iovine but also felt if they left them out it might make Beats seem even more marginalized.
Plus I suspect in front of a small group of people Iovine is pretty compelling and dynamic. So unless they did a run through in front of a full auditorium it would not have likely even been evident. Most people freak just being on a stage regardless of how many people are in the audience. Given Iovine is a salesmen who would not be thrown speaking to 10 people even if from a stage. But a large room of people, who are not his people (music industry people) but computer developers? It's easy to see how it could go the way it did, in hindsight.
I think sometimes we forget pretty much everyone sucks at public speaking naturally and it takes a lot of work and training. I assume apple execs were hoping for the best with Iovine but also felt if they left them out it might make Beats seem even more marginalized.
Plus I suspect in front of a small group of people Iovine is pretty compelling and dynamic. So unless they did a run through in front of a full auditorium it would not have likely even been evident. Most people freak just being on a stage regardless of how many people are in the audience. Given Iovine is a salesmen who would not be thrown speaking to 10 people even if from a stage. But a large room of people, who are not his people (music industry people) but computer developers? It's easy to see how it could go the way it did, in hindsight.
All I wanna know is, can I sync playlists for offline listening? Or is MUSIC only a streaming service, and I have to buy the song to get it offline?
"Music Needed A Home". Who actually writes this stuff? Unbelievable, readers
As I recall we had some very small OS X and iOS release in the pass as well.
In Snow Leopard, it was mostly about performance and optimization. Not many feature in that, remember?
People asked for bug fixes and stability and that's what they got. Now you're complaining that their were a lack of features?
Funny how only a few months ago everyone was crying for Apple to slow down and become more boring, to put a break on new features and slow the pace down to focus on bug fixes, performance, battery life, and polish instead of flash and UI-rewrites.
Guess what people? You got exactly what you wished for. And yet you complain. Golf clap internet, you never fail to entertain in your utter predictability.
Guess what people? You got exactly what you wished for. And yet you complain. Golf clap internet, you never fail to entertain in your utter predictability.
So if I'm right, I can: Quit spotify. Get MUSIC, listen to all the songs i want (that's available), sync my playlists for offline listening, listen to live radio from Beats1, for the price of 9.99$?
I've noticed a common trend over the last few years. A lot of people here seem to dislike the WWDC keynotes but have more favorable opinions towards the keynotes that take place later in the year. People need to understand that WWDC is to sell mostly to developers. It's always been a more software-driven event. The keynotes in the fall in winter where we see the new iPhones and Macs is meant to appeal more to the consumers. Both events can appeal to both markets but with each show, it's usually one more than the other.
Kinda, possibly, maybe... DEFINITELY... but then, you're intentionally missing the point.
I was a bit underwhelmed too. But I did like what I saw. Maybe we are just at a kind of plateau in this space. Most of the things we always wanted have already been added. Remember when we just wanted a decent camera on a phone and kept upgrading every year just for that? Remember gps? What else do we really want at this point? Inductive charging maybe? My check list isn't as big as it used to be