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

[everybodylovesramen]

can’t wait to see how they integrate the “plagiarism machines” into apple /s

but seriously this feels like a copy paste from the last “update”

iOS is stale as hell - this is ********.

 

[Attirex]

Generally people grasp that the event is WWDC. The World Wide Developer’s Conference. It isn’t a hardware event. It’s a software event.

They do, but a lot still don’t. And then they complain that a consumer level Mac tower that has six FW 800 ports wasn’t revealed, and are outraged.

 

[SoldOnApple]

Second Monday of June, that's when Australia celebrates the King's birthday holiday. I wonder if Charles III will be watching WWDC livestream 🤔

 

[jeremz1ne]

Guess we all find out everything in less then 24 hours

 

[iMean]

My apologies for misunderstanding then.

However, 99.9% of the professional developers who I know will scan existing company source (or their own saved samples) for an example. Google and ChatGPT are a last resort.

No insult intended here, but using ChatGPT is mainly for the inexperienced programmers or in the rare cases where the experienced are researching a specific but somewhat odd or esoteric problem/solution.

Me and my team consisting of 20 developers with an average experience in dev of about 20 years, we all use ChatGPT. It is not about not knowing how to do the job without it, it is about how to do it faster with less errors. Reading existing code is 90% of my job, yes. I do it. Every dev does it. You need to understand where to put the new code. This cannot (yet) be taken away by ChatGPT. Before we all used stackoverflow from time to time. Now it is way easier.

 

[Agent007]

Eye tracking - get ready for those pesky non-skippable ads to pause automatically should you look away from your screen. Dystopian af. I hope it can be turned off.

But I'm sure eye tracking is great for the tiny fraction of a percentage of people who literally use their iPhone "hands free".

 

[oldmacs]

I just want my iPhone to work properly...

 

[ohthehorror]

Trust me my man, I knew what I was writing. Are you the “super fun guy at parties” type?

I trust but verify.

 

[MasterMaCanada59]

Can’t wait for next VisionOS … and it’s looking great (pun intended).😁

 

[krell100]

I'm prepared for disappointment.

 

[ghanwani]

Only thing that would excite me is if they say their displays are going to be EyeSafe certified.

 

[okieoutwest]

In addition to this, ChatGPT scans StackOverflow (and other web sources), which have a lot, let me repeat this, a lot of garbage code. You know the old saying "garbage in, garbage out".

Or as Google’s Gemini says, “garbage in, glue on pizza”.

 

[iSandrotto]

WWDC is the software developer conference. Hardware comes later.

Like last year when Apple announced the M2 Mac Studio and Mac Pro during WWDC 2023?

 

[H_D]

While we all navigate the nonsense ChatGPT sometimes spouts, I do not think that the public using it on the scale of iOS will be able to. While we all can look at Humane and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , this will not work for a company of that size. At the same time Apple must do something to not get left behind by MS and G, adapting a new technology that Apple is not really well prepared for. The results will be lackluster compared to smaller, more venturing companies.
But maybe that IS okay - yesterday I used GPT4o to review fill in the names of actors in a movie I dictated (I think it is really good at text-too-speech). It got two of the names right, which’s an amazing feat. The rest of course, was utterly wrong, presented with the utmost assurance. You have to double-check everything LLM does. It’s like they invented the calculator and you finally don’t have to do your math on paper anymore — but every few times the result of your calculations is just totally bonkers. I wonder how Apple can integrate that without being in a perpetual beta state.

 

[Pezimak]

I've got fingers crossed for a Mac Studio spec bump to M4. Grumman was adamant of no new hardware last year and they announced the MacBook Air M2. We shall see though. Still think we will see one this year anyway.

 

[Pezimak]

WWDC is the software developer conference. Hardware comes later.

Apart from Apple has a long history of announcing new hardware at WWDC. Like last year...

The very first thing they did at last years event was announce new hardware:

WWDC 2023 — June 5 | Apple

Watch the WWDC23 Apple Keynote announcing the latest Apple Vision Pro, MacBook Air 15", software, services, and operating systems.00:00:00 Introduction00:03:...

www.youtube.com

 

[Pezimak]

It will be a race to see who can muster up the biggest yawn and eye roll.

Well to be fair, if no new hardware is launched then apart from Mac OS the new software features usually are dull and boring.. but this year with all the AI stuff even if they don't announce any new hardware, I expect them to excite with the AI features of iOS.. we shall see though I guess.

 

[SoldOnApple]

I hope they used Steve Jobs whole genome sequence he got for his cancer treatment to recreate him as an AI. It's inevitable it will happen, one day. No more Siri, everyone in the world will have their own personal Steve Jobs to help guide them through their lives.

 

[hyperactiv8]

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

I agree. There is no reason, with the inclusion of AI from ChatGPT, that they cannot translate more languages than 18 languages it currently supports. I have one specific language that consistently needs to be translated, but they do not support it (Serbian)

 

[hyperactiv8]

I hope the rumor of the dedicated password app comes to fruition.

 

[Termy]

WWDC is the software developer conference. Hardware comes later.

They have released hardware at WWDC in the past. Also there is no way they will not provide machines to make use of the new features, because that's what developers actually need for developing. We don't write code on papyrus

 

[chmania]

I'm not that sure, if Apple can give something more to macOS, notwithstanding AI...

 

[theluggage]

WWDC is the software developer conference. Hardware comes later.

WWDC may be the software developer conference, with lots of sessions specifically for software developers, but what mostly gets talked about here is the opening keynote presentation at WWDC which is a giant global media circus at which Apple can and does announce anything that it wants to - especially if it’s something that they need to discuss in the developers sessions.

The next versions of iOS and MacOS are a fixture, of course, but plenty of other people have pointed out hardware that has been launched or pre-announced at WWDC keynotes (including every Mac Pro and the iMac Pro).

That said, I wouldn’t bet on any hardware this time round unless they’re really going to rush out the M4 range - the M3 MBA, MBPs, iMac and Mac Pro aren’t overdue for an update yet, the Mini and Studio look like they’re going to skip the M3 and wait for M4 pro/max/ultra (and any new M3 launch will be a bit non-magical now, something to slip out quietly). If they were going to surprise us with a full M4 pro/max/ultra range I suspect there would have been clearer leaks by this stage. Maybe a base M4 Mini for iPad developers? We’ll see.

I’m just expecting endless AI hype… what I really want to hear - “we’re not going to release a new MacOS this year, just focus on making Sonoma really stable” - ain’t gonna happen.

 

[TwoH]

Ah, yes. I look forward to hearing about MacOS Redwood today.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

I hope they used Steve Jobs whole genome sequence he got for his cancer treatment to recreate him as an AI. It's inevitable it will happen, one day. No more Siri, everyone in the world will have their own personal Steve Jobs to help guide them through their lives.

“You’re living it wrong” 😉