You do realize that Xcode for iPadOS would not be the same for macOS. It would be almost a completely native version like they did with the other Pro iPadOS apps. That's pretty obvious.
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Everything We're Expecting to See at the WWDC 2024 Keynote
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It’s astonishing to me that in all the years since Steve died the only big swing they’ve taken is the Vision, and it looks like a miss. They have the resources and talent to do practically anything in the personal electronics space that they want to do. There are a world of interesting possibilities. But no. It’s almost as if there’s been a lack of imagination at Apple since Jobs died. Almost.
WWDC is the software developer conference. Hardware comes later.
As you probably know, the most famous AI doomsday example features the paperclip. The theory goes like this, that if a super powerful AI was tasked with making paperclips, it might cause an apocalypse by learning to divert all resources to make them, including killing everyone and everything that got in its way. So according to doomers, Clippy will indeed one day get his revenge.
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That doesn’t read like anything close to what a professional developer would say.
One would say..
Work:
Work on projects.
Answer emails on a variety of topics.
Work on issues inherited from when on-call.
Attend meetings.
Great. Have fun. OpenAI faces several copyright infringement lawsuits from household media and literary names. Microsoft just rolled back its original plans for its AI “Recall” feature because the privacy community skewered them for how poorly designed it is. This wave of tech is meant for marks who either can’t discern or willingly participate in scams.
Apple is spending only 7% of their net income into R&D. Relatively speaking it’s the less of all tech companies. Sometimes it seems that there are only 5 hardware engineers working on a product. Production cycles are taking ages. That’s probably why the iPhone 16 will look like the iPhone 15,14,13,12. The only things that will be upgraded is of the shelf parts like better screens, cameras, etc. If you want innovation it’s sad, but you have to look elsewhere. Somehow I hope competition is forcing Apple to innovate faster. But Tim will probably blame the economic headwinds. He’s done that several times for China. Where Huawei grew a staggering 400% and were able to launch an EV. But Huawei is also investing 4x as much in R&D as Apple. It’s the economic headwinds says Timmy 🤣😂🤣
You can hate AI but it isn’t going away and will bring endless possibilities. Good and bad. But it’s a disrupting technology every tech company should be at the forefront at to stay relevant.
You know what really is embarrassing? The lag of progress and long production cycles at a company the size of Apple. It seems there are only 5 engineers working there that can focus on one product at a time. The rest are sales and marketeers. I blame Timmy for that.
I’m not a developer but if it’s true that Xcode is buggy, im holding my breath for any future developments. Developer tools are the building blocks for the future. If those aren’t good, nothing will be good.
Yes, ChatGPT is not a professional developer. So, it can't attend meetings and answer emails. My post was about how ChatGPT is helpful for me as a developer.
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Isn’t an iPad Mini OLED hardware? Did not you read above that this is all about software, not hardware.I want them to announce an iPad mini OLED. Oh and Apple Books unlimited. That’s it. Thank you
Most of the good stuff will arrive 1 month before WWDC 2025 in “a future update”, which is the norm now.
Basic tweaks or app updates that could have been pushed via the App Store months ago will be touted at “revolutionary”
Same old.
Basic tweaks or app updates that could have been pushed via the App Store months ago will be touted at “revolutionary”
Same old.
Yes! The Apple translation app is absolutely pathetic.
Dream on. There is only one Swift compiler. All native means is that the compiler compiles to Apple Silicon instead of x86, the source code is still the same with the same bugs. Sure the UI source will change because the iPad does not do appKit, but they won't rewrite the non-UI code that has fundamental bugs because it would take years. Xcode still operates under the covers as it did when it was a Next product called Project Builder (released in 1992).
Apple's developer tools (outside of the Swift toolchain) are stone-age. For example that Apple Xcode will not compile Vapor docc documents, but the command line works fine. This has been known for at least a year. Read any of the blogs from major independent developers and the list of major issues with Xcode is a mile long. After 30 years of poorly applied improvements Xcode itself is a mess. I doubt there is anyone left at Apple that knows Xcode very well.
That’s quite worrisome. I mean the building blocks of the future have to be top notch. What’s more worrying to me is that Apple hasn’t solved the bugs that has been known for years. I hope developers will complain about this and demand better solutions from Apple. If Apple didn’t had money on the bank and had problems to survive I would understand. But this should be solved asap if Apple wants to be taken seriously.