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Apple Shares Humorous 'Backstage' Video Shown During WWDC Opening
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You mean it was awesome? I thought that was the best WWDC for yonks (until the Music stuff started, couldn't care less about that). Throughout the OS X and iOS presentations all the little details were just "wow, they've done that just right"!
I didn't find the video very funny, but I liked the ending, with the simple stage and the line about having something incredible to say.
Jobs gives us 1984
Tim gives us this crap ?!
Very telling when the whole stage crashed, fell apart, and needed to be rebooted ...
Tim gives us this crap ?!
Very telling when the whole stage crashed, fell apart, and needed to be rebooted ...
As far as a developer conference, it's going pretty well. What makes you declare it as a "fail"?
I thought this was probably the best Apple event, post Steve Jobs, to date.
Not sure what some of the complainers were expecting here .... but it was chock-full of good information about details of what they changed in the new OS X and iOS, and some of those changes were complete surprises to me. (Had no clue, for example, they were doing the revamp of Expose and management of full screen apps. Looks like it finally makes that part of OS X really relevant.)
I found the intro pretty funny in parts. Some of it, perhaps a little predictable or cheesy ... but overall a great opening for the show. To me, it had a bit of that same sense of humor you'd find in something like "The Muppet Show", so not for everyone, but I appreciated it.
Not sure what some of the complainers were expecting here .... but it was chock-full of good information about details of what they changed in the new OS X and iOS, and some of those changes were complete surprises to me. (Had no clue, for example, they were doing the revamp of Expose and management of full screen apps. Looks like it finally makes that part of OS X really relevant.)
I found the intro pretty funny in parts. Some of it, perhaps a little predictable or cheesy ... but overall a great opening for the show. To me, it had a bit of that same sense of humor you'd find in something like "The Muppet Show", so not for everyone, but I appreciated it.
Shayanftw is referring to the terribly boring (Sans Federighi) presentations
I wanted to gouge out my eyeballs during the Watch update
Not to mention Drunk Eddy Cue or Coked up Clueless Jimmy Iovine... WTF!!
Then bring out Drake, to introduce the Softest Mp3 Streaming System in the Game !
Sad and unforgivable
If that's the case, then fair enough. I have no interest in what Iovine, or Cue has to say, so have missed those.
I had no idea who he was either to be honest.
Bit difficult - SNL is not shown on TV (inc Satellite/Cable) over here. A few channels tried over the years but the US's parochial humour just doesn't translate well over here. Same problem with your Letterman like shows. Channel 4 tried to copy the SNL format in the 80s for a couple of years and that tanked as well.
Unless you are condoning piracy?
Back on-topic. I liked the visual jokes, it was a good open.
There's plenty of SNL on Netflix...
Iovine was pretty crap, but you can't blame the man for being bad at public speaking, I'm sure he's a lot better than me. Trouble is he had nothing interesting to say. I mean seriously, we're supposed to get excited about a new, utterly conventional, music radio channel?
Who is this Drake? I seem to recall he seemed like a nice bloke, but I already can't remember what he talked about. Am I getting him and Iovine mixed up - they were all about Apple Music, right?
Were they real cats? That's pretty bad if so. It's not super awful, it doesn't hurt cats that much when you do that, but they certainly don't tend to like it once they're grown up (it's fine for kittens), and those were big cats, presumably that makes it worse for them.
UK?
Anyway as mentioned elsewhere in the thread if it's months behind it loses the topicality.
Let's first remind ourselves that this was for developers. They theoretically look for and at different things than users.
It is not possible to come up with a game changer every 12 months or less, so all we can get are tweaks of existing stuff.
Since I am a person who works with just the basics until I need more (which I then research) the many refinements and new features in the OS X leave me cold. ,I just want everything to work and it does.
The few quirks one can work around.
BTW: Their iOS and OS X upgrades are FREE!
Being disappointed that there isn't new hardware is only due to peoples overactive entitlement behavior.
Apple wow us, and if not we hate you, you are bad news, disappointed, no innovation, lost it's touch,
Steve wouldn't, Tim Cook terrible etc.etc..
All the complainers should calm down and just think which areas in tech are not heavily covered already.
Because of even the small increments in each processor speed and memory increase we get faster this sand that or things we did not imagine before.
Apple is just one of their billions of dollars do not come from being dumb.
NOT listening to outside influences and doing what they think is right is actually very hard.
Since 1984 I have seen Apple's high, lows and failures as well as successes.
In my book nobody is perfect, but what Apple is offering is say at least 75% of what I want.
(For another 15% I don't have the money)
The little bit left are annoying little things and every time the complainers say they are leaving Apple, they usually come back.
Got lost in the thread: Some of it was funny and some not. About 30/70 or luke warm, but then we all have different funny bones.
If you're using WWDC in the 'past tense', you clearly don't know that WWDC is a week-long event that is STILL going on. It actually ends later today.
It's a week-long event with hundreds of hours of presentations, not just one keynote. Many, many more things were introduced and discussed (and still being discussed)
Humorous? Each to their I own, I suppose. Personally I've been to funnier funerals but I won't knock those who enjoyed it. Went right over my head...
Right, the words are the same but not the same. That's why we're forced to have a profession called Localizers. Those are the guys (and gals) responsible for making sure games and applications are as universal as possible.
As an Australian, however, rooting my device is never a good thing.
If that gets you an ever increasing following and sales then it sounds like it's a good way to go (if someone is thinking that's where they are going).
