The app store is larger than the industrial revolution? Woot? Are they on drugs (Apart from the News lady, she sure was under influence)?
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Live Coverage of Apple's WWDC 2015 Keynote: iOS 9, OS X 10.11, Apple Music, and More
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Apple pushing Swift to be open source only because of Microsoft's massive push this year to open up C# and .Net and do more cross platform development. While I can see C# becoming a dominant language, Swift will only ever be used to support iOS platform, I can't imagine X Code being used to ever write apps for competitive platforms.
The point is of course that features like this are mostly ridiculed - not only here, but also in the press - every single time a non-Apple manufacturer launches them. Keywords: "No one needs that", "Stupid feature", "I am glad Apple focuses on the important stuff" and so on.
Yet, when Apple launches near identical features somewhere down the line the same crowd that hated it when they first saw it on a non-Apple platform suddenly thinks it is an excellent idea.
Who cares as long as he delivers the information people want to hear such as Swift being OPEN SOURCE! Right on!!!
He just sounds so rehearshed and its always the same vocal melody over and over again.
Agreed. Apple has had their hands into OSS for over a decade now.
they're all rehearsed, including the crowd "wooing" folks.
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Think we may all have the same Bank...
Lots of banks are on board which is great. I have accounts with RBS, Bank of Scotland, Nationwide and TSB. Did not think that they would all be supporting from launch!
Bit strange about Barclays. Barclaycard US supports Apple Pay.
Sainsbury's are supporting Zapp - another mobile payment method. Don't know about Tesco. Some of their stores have contactless terminals and some don't. Some of the stores with contactless terminals have contactless enabled and others don't! Was Morrisons on the list? They have rolled out contactless.
Seriously - the iPad 2 is by far the most future proof piece of tech someone could have bought back in 2011.
Out of the entire Keynote the only thing I'm really excited about is the Notes app update LOL.
Didn't Apple say that they want to solidify iOS from now on? First we complained about it being all buggy and when they try hard to fix the bugs, everyone complains again. Can't please everyone. Too bad.
I'm happy that they are solidifying the OS and not just adding more and more features! One of the main reason why I came back to Apple after having a Samsung. You want features go get another phone.
I'm happy that they are solidifying the OS and not just adding more and more features! One of the main reason why I came back to Apple after having a Samsung. You want features go get another phone.
Xcode != Swift
There is already another IDE which supports Swift - JetBrains AppCode. I bet Eclipse will support Swift soon too.
Well sorry the WWDC DEVELOPER conference was what it was SUPPOSE to be.
While you're gone Apple may release a cure for Cancer
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