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Full Transcript of Apple's WWDC 2014 Keynote: OS X 10.10, iOS 8, and More [Keynote Ended]
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The point of dumbing down the OS is for non techies to enjoy using their computers. Yes we techies will always complain that this looks crap or unusable or whatever but reality is most people just want something that works. Apple is basically doing that. Sure they can add extra stuff but will those features be used extensively in the end?
Yep, that was my reaction too Oh they brought Sherlock back!
(Mind you, Sherlock kind of sucked if we're honest!)
Hey, I liked Sherlock!
screw productive
I haven't gotten a thing done all day.
I'm supposed to have created a full DR setup and installation today.. iv'e got
"Disaster Recovery Installation plan"
on a blank word document.
8 hours well spent!
Re all this Spotlight/Sherlock nonsense, wouldn't it be great if there was an inbuilt search that allowed you find files on your computer?
I keep waiting for them to add more features to iMessage. I like iMessage a lot, but there's so many good features in BBM and WhatsApp that apple could incorporate into iMessage to make it a top notch messaging/chat client.
Please, give me a break here. The word 'awesome' is so outdated, especially in this keynote. This keynote wasn't anything more then just a list of improvements to the OS and some really nice improvements for developers. But Steve Jobs keynotes, and I've been watching all of them, where exiting in general, it wasn't all about just software, he brought vision, ideas, and, very important, new hardware. This is the first keynote that was software only. Nothing about new products or upgrades to existing hardware nothing at all. And compared to all of Apple keynotes with the knowledge that Apple is about to come up with some so called groundbreaking new products this is just one big disappointment.
I see thousands of people coming up with great, sometimes brilliant, new hardware ideas each single year and some of them have huge success using kickstart platforms. I've seen hundreds of new ideas that could shake up the market. Then take Apple, a huge company with lot's and lot's of employees and a fast amount of stockpiles in cash.....
I'm sure Apple is researching, researching a lot, and I understand they like to take their time to come up with something either brilliant or nothing at all which is all, with all do respect, in the eye of the beholder. What's brilliant or not is yet to the consumer to decide after all. But that besides, their is simply nothing to decide here, Apple isn't even able to come up with something new after soooo many months. I love Apple and I like some of the new features in it's new OSX but they are: a. not new (other systems had almost all of them allready) and b. are only slight improvements
So yes, it was a disappointment for me. No, Tim is no Jobs, he doesn't need to be Jobs and he's entitled to choose his own path, so don't talk me about showing some respect. I get that, but that doesn't mean I can dress that I don't like the path he's choosing and I'm not alone in this.
I know, right?
Steve became the CEO again in 1997, and the iPod debuted in 2001.
Steve's not walking through that door. There is much talent and vision still at Apple however, and these new developer tools will help these people make incredible stuff for iOS and OS X.
Why would you expect hardware at a developers conference?
I'm absolutely baffled why people have been expecting hardware
It's just as reasonable to expect hardware at WWDC as it is to not. This is the first keynote in recent memory (I'm sure that some people can suggest some exceptions, but it doesn't disprove my point) where there's been absolutely nothing.
You must be baffled easily.
Cannot inovate my ***!
How truly innovative is it? I've been making calls from my PC laptop for years. Ever hear of skype or google chat or google voice or google hangouts? iCloud Drive, oh you mean Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive? MailDrop, oh you mean Smartattach??
The Handoff thing is kind of neat, but I wonder how many times it'll actually be used/useful??
Serious question (because I don't know the answer): do any of those services allow you to make/receive calls at your computer, via your mobile phone line?
While I'm not propping up or tearing down any of your points here, I think the point that Apple is trying to make is that this is now integrated in their software without 3rd party apps and that it is communication between hardware.
Perhaps to do with Broadwell chips being delayed? I don't really see Apple announcing Mac updates like that then people are left waiting for months. The iPhone and iPad are always updated later on in the year. We will see the new Macs hopefully Q4 2014 which is fine by me, my rMBP is only half a year old and my iPhone is just a little bit older than that.
For me I was impressed, while not a massive change OS X and iOS brought along a bunch of great incremental improvements. What more do I want than that? I don't need a new UI design (Yosemite does look good though) every single year with a billion new features. I want carefully thought out and implemented improvements rather than Samsung's approach of throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. As for me iOS and OS X does everything I want, these features are just icing on the cake.
Looking forward to Yosemite and I really like finally being able to integrate calling and SMS into OS X. I like the new health kit and home kit stuff, as I imagine this will bring about some really cool stuff in the future when developers really dig into it. I like finally being able to quickly reply to messages and deal with notifications.
Love being a young Apple convert... Two new OS's yearly, FOR FREE!
I know. The term "market leader" does not help any manufacturer of Android phones whatsoever.
So consequentially to your previous posts you seriously are suggesting that the second-most selling smart phone manufacturer is shutting down business?
Oh, I had no idea verbs could become outdated. Guess I should've said "Da FUGH, today's keynote was the Shizz, know what I'm sayin'...."
I think what he was asking was is it possible to roll back to a previous version with OS X. Since you cannot do that with iOS. With iOS once the new version comes out, Apple stops handing out SHSH blobs, so it makes it impossible to go back to a previous version. Lets say you dont like iOS 7, you cannot simply go back to iOS 6, even if you have a complete backup in your iTunes and even if you have the iOS 6 ipsw file. Apple's servers will not activate it.
Exactly, because your super innovative awesome Windows thing can make calls using your cellular carrier, right? I didn't think so.
Absolutely right. All versions of iOS7 are not created equally. I have an iPhone 5 and I'm on iOS 7, but I cant even get all the features of it. Much less someone like my mother who has an iPhone 4 and is on iOS 7 and gets almost none of the features....but she does get the crappy flat icons.
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Yea I know. I'm finally glad Apple is getting some of these features.
Exactly, because your super innovative awesome Windows thing can make calls using your cellular carrier, right? I didn't think so.
I don't think that you can make calls on Yosemite without an iOS device
1:12 PM PST. A baseless comment.
Typical from Apple and the zealots though. So what was amazing from Apple last year is garbage and ancient history now.
If I still like what I liked last year, I'm living in the past and a dinosaur.
Apple is just out of their minds and it's amazing how many people they have brainwashed.