Everything We're Expecting to See at the WWDC 2024 Keynote

[Surf Monkey]

I’ll take that bet, passwords as part of icloud via keychain (all icloud options, including free tier) are a big selling point of the seamless “just works” nature of the ecosystem, a standalone app is basically just a GUI for that, I have serious doubts it‘ll be tied to a subscription

Maybe not that aspect of it but if there’s a way to create a premium tier that’s tied to Apple One they’ll do it for sure.

Meanwhile giant swaths of the ecosystem are completely broken. Apple Music and Screen Time for example. Both complete disasters.

 

[Surf Monkey]

I would love Apple to take on Audible.

Audible’s corner on audiobooks is concerning for sure.

 

[Surf Monkey]

Disagree. He’s got approachable tech casual dress on lock.

You get that it’s a costume, right?

 

[shahr04360]

Translate app please! If we can get anything half as good as Google’s on the same damn phone I would appreciate it.

Translate

 

[Jim Lahey]

Any chance macOS Music can be made to not suck? I mean can they not just port over the iPad app with a Mac UI and run the existing version through the digital furnace before burying the ashes in a lead-lined tomb at the bottom of a mile-deep pit? Maybe they could get AI to do it for them? They seem to have taken this approach to their industrial design in recent years so I say give it a shot 👍

 

[Surf Monkey]

Any chance macOS Music can be made to not suck? I mean can they not just port over the iPad app with a Mac UI and run the existing version through the digital furnace before burying the ashes in a lead-lined tomb at the bottom of a mile-deep pit? Maybe they could get AI to do it for them? They seem to have taken this approach to their industrial design in recent years so I say give it a shot 👍

It isn’t just the desktop version. The mobile version is messed up too. And they don’t talk to each other, even though Apple Music is a cloud service. Apple’s whole music efforts have felt like B-team work for a while now.

 

[Jim Lahey]

It isn’t just the desktop version. The mobile version is messed up too. And they don’t talk to each other, even though Apple Music is a cloud service. Apple’s whole music efforts have felt like B-team work for a while now.

I see. Personally I preferred the iPad version over the Mac offering. The latter is blighted by awful design choices and is infested with so many glitches and bugs my computer doesn't have enough RAM to list them all before submitting the post. The 'cloud' syncing does indeed suck. Intermittently anyways. But that's iCloud in a nutshell. Anyway, without digressing too much into an Apple bashing rant, please Apple just destroy macOS Music and either start over from a clean sheet or port over the iPadOS code.

 

[Isengardtom]

What a waste. Apple should be releasing the upgraded Mac Studio and Mac Pro.

The Studio is great. The Pro is only useful for a tiny niche now.

 

[Isengardtom]

Really curious to see what macOS has in store

My guess is not much. iOS seems to get all the focus

 

[svish]

Excited for the event and waiting to see the changes to iPadOS.

 

[okieoutwest]

Looking forward to RCS and the improvements to Siri, if they materialize. Not interested at all in OpenAI integration which I’m half betting will turn out to be another very useless and potentially criminal enterprise just like the crypto stuff from SBF by the time everything is said and done. I think it’s a huge mistake to marry Open AI into Apple hardware.

 

[9081094]

Apple is a consumer electronics company now. Computers aren’t their core offering. They’ll get around to updating those but they’re no longer the high priority they were ten years ago.

If that’s true they should offer better products to stay relevant and to justify their premium prices. I’m always surprised how little progress is coming out of a company as big as Apple.

 

[9081094]

Looks to me nothing really breathtaking is coming for WWDC 2024. All the things mentioned the competition has already shown. But I’ll wait for June the 10th and decide.

 

[Geekett]

Almost nothing on iPad OS
what’s the point of the M4 iPad pro if so ?

Hope Apple will surprise us

 

[starlabjump]

underwhelming features for ipados according to the article

 

[Webcat86]

I don't understand the hype of most of the AI features. Who needs AI's help to delete and read an email? The only one that stands out here is asking Siri to create shortcuts, because that app really isn't very intuitive and this could be genuinely helpful.

 

[Victor Mortimer]

I'm all for bringing the retro stuff back to macOS

Give me After Dark / Flying Toasters

That's easy: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

 

[9081094]

Almost nothing on iPad OS
what’s the point of the M4 iPad pro if so ?

Hope Apple will surprise us

Don’t hold your breath and be prepared to be underwhelmed 😅

 

[Victor Mortimer]

Any chance macOS Music can be made to not suck? I mean can they not just port over the iPad app with a Mac UI and run the existing version through the digital furnace before burying the ashes in a lead-lined tomb at the bottom of a mile-deep pit? Maybe they could get AI to do it for them? They seem to have taken this approach to their industrial design in recent years so I say give it a shot 👍

Given that every new version has sucked more than the last? Not a chance. They're gonna keep making it worse.

They should adopt "Apple Music: Getting Worse Every Year Since We Bought SoundJam MP" as the slogan.

 

[Geekett]

Don’t hold your breath and be prepared to be underwhelmed 😅

😭​

 

[Warped9]

This is the one I've been waiting for. Since forever.

Calculator app? Whoopee! There are any number of them already available.

For me it's been a Settings app that's not disgusting...

Yeah, I don’t care for System Settings. I much preferred the old System Preferences layout.

AI nonsense will be optional and not turned on by default

Hopefully.

What a waste. Apple should be releasing the upgraded Mac Studio and Mac Pro.

Agreed. I find most of the software stuff a yawn with most of it being something nobody asked for or gives a damn about.

Why do CEOs dress like slobs these days? Is there some reason Tim couldn’t wear actual nice shoes?

A lot of people today dress like slobs.

As somebody who doesn't give a **** about AI I guess this is going to be a very boring WWDC for me...

Same. Unless they surprise us with some hardware…like Mac Studio with M4.

 

[jonnysods]

Looking forward to it!

 

[iMean]

Since I am already using ChatGPT for hours every day, I am excited about the upcoming changes. Maybe it will make some workflows easier.

 

[Webcat86]

Since I am already using ChatGPT for hours every day, I am excited about the upcoming changes. Maybe it will make some workflows easier.

What use cases have you got for it?

 

[Pandyone]

Calculator app? Whoopee! There are any number of them already available.

I was mostly ironic. But it's funny that calculator hasn't been on iPad yet, but is even available on Apple Watch and now needs to be highlighted as an upcoming feature.