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Act as a robot.
Pretend to be human.
Seduce with some witty jokes to look more human like.
Smile.
Use lots of hand gestures.
Spread your legs a little apart, and glue those shoes to the ground.
Buy fake teeth.
Present with a very stiffly ironed shirt.
Read text like a robot.
Pronouce monotonous.
Again, don't forget: iron this darn trousers and shirts!
Organize your surrounding, be symmetrical.
Wear the same belt.
Bleach those teeth like it's you *sshole, damn.
Try to hide the fact that you just sat on a horse four 8 hours on a roll.

Who said Apple is behind on AI? Look at the WWDC show AI put thogether this year!

We call it the Craigh Model. It's great. Almost human like.
 
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People like this need to get a grip. The software looks beautiful and was a much needed upgrade in design. Some cool new features.
Understand they are a company that is running a marathon, not a sprint. What these people want besides beautiful hardware and software is beyond what they could even articulate, let alone design themselves.
The software is ugly as hell and it’s a mess. Turn on dark mode with the glass. It’s Windows Aero 2.0.

What’s up with the border around the keyboard and the huge bubble where the phone numbers go in the messages app? I’m 34 years old and even I can see where older people will struggle with the contrast on buttons and menus.

People have such bad taste these days, I swear.
 
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So they announced the latest software of iOS, iPad… 26 at WWDC 25, due to be the software running on models of iPad and iPhone etc running A19 etc

Despite the rebrand the whole numbering system is still disjointed. If they can’t get this right??

And the 26 designation is just the typical corporate stupidity of having tomorrow’s tech today. It’s nonsense. So iOS26 is the 2025 release.
 
Apple is running out of ideas and losing out to AI and regulators (app store payments). Unless Apple 🍏 starts innovating again - they are a dead company
 
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The software is ugly as hell and it’s a mess. Turn on dark mode with the glass. It’s Windows Aero 2.0.

What’s up with the border around the keyboard and the huge bubble where the phone numbers go in the messages app? I’m 34 years old and even I can see where older people will struggle with the contrast on buttons and menus.

People have such bad taste these days, I swear.
The **Developer Beta Version 1** software is ugly as hell?? okay.

get a grip lol. if you’re gonna complain at least do it when the actual product is finished and released for users.

Right now, you’re just criticising the chef while he’s putting the chicken in the oven. Like okay, it’s not meant to be fully baked yet lol.
 
The software is ugly as hell and it’s a mess. Turn on dark mode with the glass. It’s Windows Aero 2.0.

What’s up with the border around the keyboard and the huge bubble where the phone numbers go in the messages app? I’m 34 years old and even I can see where older people will struggle with the contrast on buttons and menus.

People have such bad taste these days, I swear.
Telling you, they are as losing battle to Android and MSFT big times
 
I'm not blown away but there's some genuinely useful stuff in there. For me, better iPad multitasking, live translation, call hold notifications, and Notes on Apple Watch were the highlights.

Maybe in another 10 or 15 years we get multi-user logins on iPad, who knows.
Never will it happen. They prefer to sell your family 3x ipads instead of 1
 
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With the updates, the iPad is a more useful device. And the iPhone becomes, even better, at communicating the things that matter back to you. It seems that the Mac itself is becoming a more niche product for higher end uses and devs.
If you had a chance to look unto new android devices, you would realize that the whole apple (except for their M chips) are becoming niche and obsolete.
 
The **Developer Beta Version 1** software is ugly as hell?? okay.

get a grip lol. if you’re gonna complain at least do it when the actual product is finished and released for users.

Right now, you’re just criticising the chef while he’s putting the chicken in the oven. Like okay, it’s not meant to be fully baked yet lol.
Beta doesn’t mean major changes will happen. This is close to the final product. There may be a few tweaks here and there, but the base product is indeed very ugly.

This might be good for me though… I can take my spare phone to work and show people why they should switch to a Galaxy.
 
It will take time of course, u less they start changing themselves (back to basics vs appleasing greedy investors)
yea, good business analysis Pedersenko!! im sure Apple could use your expertise on how to maintain a multi trillion dollar corporation and which business decisions to make.

Keep it up and spread the word! The more people that think this way, the cheaper the stocks get😍
 
as soon as there is more computing power, it is immediately burned by eye-candy
No, Snow had more eye candies and runs well on modest hardwares. Computing power is burned by excesses of data collection and cryptography.
We are currently in the Middle-Age of IT where every castle was fortified and it's landlord was the vassal of another castle landlord.
 
I haven't used Windows and Android for years, so I don't know how they are doing now. In what way are they winning the "battle" with Apple?
Imho, windows and android became better over time. Are historically more flexible, and you can find premium hardware offerings apple can’t match.
Although sunce 2014 i’m solo apple user, my next one will be win and android.
Not to mention that apple can’t get their AI off the start (which i use daily). That’s more an issue for google, but i mean apple only holds front on processor and touchpad side (and some video editing software), but for the rest they clear runner ups.
 
Beta doesn’t mean major changes will happen. This is close to the final product. There may be a few tweaks here and there, but the base product is indeed very ugly.

This might be good for me though… I can take my spare phone to work and show people why they should switch to a Galaxy.
A developer beta is quite literally a beta still in development. Well, anything with a beta label continues to be.

Anything, or nothing could change.

I assume part of the reason they release the first betas to developers only is so that they get some actual good, useable feedback they can act on, from other developers.

They then release to the public who may have interesting opinions, but otherwise no knowledge of software design or human interface development. Bug reports are always good though, so the more, the better.
 
These are my top 3 in each category.

Developer Productivity enhancements:
(1) Containerization Framework
(2) Xcode 26 LLM integration
(3) Coding Tools

Platform enhancements:
(1) Apple Foundation Models Framework
(2) Swift 6.2 Performance and Concurrency Improvements
(2) Enhanced App Intents with Visual Intelligence

What are yours?

This is the first time in years that I was convinced to update all my devices to os beta 1 before waiting for reviews. So far, all OSs are stable and delightful - the look to scroll feature on visionOS is surprisingly intuitive and useful .. definitely not a gimmick.
Agreed. I've always avoided the beta's as I find they just waste my time and break too much to make any device usable.
However I'm going to go with the iPad beta, just because I think the UI looks fabulous and I want to see how it looks with my Apps which have always used the native UI instead of bespoke, custom UI methods.
I dont use my iPad much other than for testing so no loss if it breaks things but also because it seems to benefit from some of the most significant changes becoming more like MacOS.

I've only just started checking out the videos.
I've been a professional developer for 35 years (worked on IOS for 31 of those years. No, seriously. I joined Cisco Systems as a young developer in '94 and started working on IOS then! ;) )
So I'm not a fan of programming languages that change as much as Swift.
Being an old fart I prefer a language that remains constant and I find any language update to be of little use other than causing more work and complexity. If I was younger maybe I'd have more patience. Swift updates, nah...

  1. I do like that Xcode now has Multiple Word Search that's a small but very very useful feature to get.
  2. ChatGPT integration with Xcode. I can't imagine not having ChatGPT now after using it for 2 years. As it is now, it's ok but clunky with Xcode so full integration should be amazing. Next years WWDC will be really interesting. How long until all we do is just check the diffs that the LLM creates? Have it download the app crash reports each day, find fixes and then present us with the suggested code fixes? How long until we trust it so much to just do it without review and even build and release? Verbal directions for new features too, the Xcode video already shows something like that. Glad I'm close to retirement. This is the fulcrum around which everything will change in Xcode going forward. AI.
  3. The changes that Liquid Glass UI brings to my apps. I love how it looks and think I it was about time Apple refreshed the UI on iOS and its derivatives. I'd have preferred to have made #3 something under the hood and for developers but it's only day 1 so for now #3 is the Glass UI. I might come back and edit this one if I find something that really has the wow factor and I know will be of great benefit to my work.
 
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The new Liquid Design on all platforms looks nice OVERALL, but it's far from complete – and I hope Apple knows that. This design is a 'beta' in every sense of the word and if the UI hasn't been quite significantly refined by launch in various areas, Apple have f***ed up.
 
Am I the only one that gets the creeps watching the styled Apple video's? Everything looks surreal, fake people, fake setups, staged walks, scripted talks, and those clothes *laughing out loud* (trying to imagine what kind of person does this for a job), ... it is giving me the creeps. And why do these people all walk like they just dismounted a horse?

I am wondering: did Apple lost connection with this world, or did I?

Or did someone perhaps drug my coffee, making everything look surreal?

Although you can't feel love through a display, you can see it when people interact with each other. When there was a stage and an audience, there was love and other wonderful things.

I was always happy when someone shouted 'I love you' towards the stage and Jobs, Schiller or Federighi smiled.

Immediate feedback, such as that relating to the pricing of the Pro Stand for the Pro Display XDR, was also worthwhile.
 
I wish I’d have had the Hold Assist feature today. During half my workout I was on hold for 45 minutes with a shipping company waiting to speak to someone that could reschedule a delivery. And every 60 seconds the robo voice would interrupt the ****** music to let me know my call was important to them. Mind numbing.

Makes me wonder whether, if this feature becomes ubiquitous across mobile platforms (no idea if Android has it), hold times will increase as companies further reduce the number of customer service representatives they pay for, which already feels like it’s at an all time low.
This new call screening mode is a big plus in dealing with SPAM and phishing calls as well.
 
There seemed to be little new on macOS. The changes to iPadOS however, seem more fundamental, so the update will be worth a closer look.
 
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