Why all the whining?...Apple is pushing the envelope in Emoji innovation!!! 
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Live Coverage of Apple's WWDC 2016 Keynote: iOS 10, macOS 10.12, and More [Keynote Over]
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Personal WWDC sum-up:
- Better watchOS (At last, yay!).
- Something about tvOS (irrelevant stuff to most people outside the US, so it's a no from me).
- Apple Pay (still, outside the participating countries, but interested cause I like Apple Pay).
- OS X (sorry, macOS, I like the new features, so yay for that too).
- iOS (more like, hey have some new notification banners and Messenger functionality in iMessage. Bye, Felicia).
- Awful presenters except for Craig.
- Try-hard to be funny. Just no.
- Enough with China.
The verdict: Hire professional presenters who don't try to act like cool skateboarders while they look like the Mathletes from Mean Girls. Don't let TC speak publicly, he's just a moving shame calling iMessage stickers a revolution.
- Better watchOS (At last, yay!).
- Something about tvOS (irrelevant stuff to most people outside the US, so it's a no from me).
- Apple Pay (still, outside the participating countries, but interested cause I like Apple Pay).
- OS X (sorry, macOS, I like the new features, so yay for that too).
- iOS (more like, hey have some new notification banners and Messenger functionality in iMessage. Bye, Felicia).
- Awful presenters except for Craig.
- Try-hard to be funny. Just no.
- Enough with China.
The verdict: Hire professional presenters who don't try to act like cool skateboarders while they look like the Mathletes from Mean Girls. Don't let TC speak publicly, he's just a moving shame calling iMessage stickers a revolution.
I agree, but this lets people who own an iPhone and a current Mac get into the action.
I guess you will have to wait and see tomorrow if investors feel Apple opening up it's OS's and systems a lot more to developers will keep them on board.
Right, off to read about the Apple Web Pay thing, the only bit I thought was good.
Right, off to read about the Apple Web Pay thing, the only bit I thought was good.
I'm really not sure why this Keynote received such a negative reaction. I agree that some of the "performances" of the presenters were a bit painful..But in terms of actual content, what's not to like?
Every year, people ask for a ton of new features. And every year, Apple introduces some of them. I thought it was the same this year.
As an iPhone 6s owner, I'm excited about the new features on the lock screen and home screen "widgets." Yes, I know Android has had these for some time, but that was never enough to get me to switch to Android and now my iPhone is much more powerful.
Messages - the actual presentation was, again, not great. For many younger users, the new features will be great. For those of us that are not as young anymore, I doubt that I nor my wife/friends/family will be using many of those features, so I'm not really impacted.
Design-wise, I was pretty impressed with the updates to Maps and News. The one thing I'm not so sure about is the new Music app, but I'll give that a better look when they release the public beta next month.
WatchOS looks like it has some great improvements for the watch experience. MacOS and tvOS weren't too exciting, but nothing bad either.
I guess no one will ever be satisfied, which I should have known after almost 6 years on MacRumors.
Every year, people ask for a ton of new features. And every year, Apple introduces some of them. I thought it was the same this year.
As an iPhone 6s owner, I'm excited about the new features on the lock screen and home screen "widgets." Yes, I know Android has had these for some time, but that was never enough to get me to switch to Android and now my iPhone is much more powerful.
Messages - the actual presentation was, again, not great. For many younger users, the new features will be great. For those of us that are not as young anymore, I doubt that I nor my wife/friends/family will be using many of those features, so I'm not really impacted.
Design-wise, I was pretty impressed with the updates to Maps and News. The one thing I'm not so sure about is the new Music app, but I'll give that a better look when they release the public beta next month.
WatchOS looks like it has some great improvements for the watch experience. MacOS and tvOS weren't too exciting, but nothing bad either.
I guess no one will ever be satisfied, which I should have known after almost 6 years on MacRumors
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Tim Cook's Apple is all about stupidity from the executives. Instead of focusing on the real problems at Apple, they have executives who decide to come out with additional features that will cause problems.
You must not have been around for the "beleaguered Apple" decade. I'm happy swift was mentioned.
This was not mentioned in the keynote:
I think exactly the opposite.
I loved the new watch features, that my mac can be unlocked by my watch, the new photos features, home automation features. New Swift stuff. Cut-and-paste across all devices. ApplePay on my mac. It was all excellent, and MUCH more than I was expecting. But this is from the point of view of a working dad with a family.
The emoticon stuff I could care less about, but I understand the demographics that thought that was the best part.
Hardware rarely comes out at WWDC. It's a mostly software event. So, I don't miss any of that.
The Mac equivalent of "Get off my lawn!", and I'm good with it.Please, spare me the Drama. I was using a Mac before you were born.
Since Intel's road map has also slowed down, it means the "cost" of being a generation behind isn't as great. Granted, Skylake would be nice for the power consumption (case in point the new MacBook), but it wouldn't make sense for there to be a Skylake update earlier if there is a more radical redesign in the works. Remember the 28W Skylake chips just started shipping a few weeks ago.
The only time Apple ever got an "early" release of an Intel chip was the "special" version of the chip that was in the original MacBook Air. We all know how that turned out (it overheated a lot and throttled very badly). And Microsoft and others who rushed to release 15W Skylake devices experienced many issues with crashing.
Apple won't announce the MacBook Pro update until it is ready to ship. Unlike with the MacBook, which was a new line, they can't pre-announce it 2-3 months in advance.
Just get a 5 inch android phone. Without the huge apple bezels it isn't much bigger or unruly than a 4 inch iphone. When are the next nexus phones due to come out?
I'll be looking to go either new Nexus phone this fall or a used S7 because I like OLED screens.
Only thing I can think of that would save Apple is Forstall who thought the way Jobs did and that's not going to happen. Software wise Apple is super weak. Hardware wise still great quality but slipping behind the competition feature wise.
Only thing that can save Apple now is that 2017 iphone with a totally redesigned ios release and I'm not holding my breath.
Apple started down 1% when the market opened at 6am this morning. Like clockwork, AAPL has always finished down after every developers conference and product introduction. For years.
You guys remember the excitement of apple events in the past? Specially during Steve jobs, now it's like everyone is predicting a dissappinting conference and it does end up being disappointing 9/10 times...
Nope... but currently XCode isn't a very good IDE ( buggy, lacking many modern features found in IDEs ). If Apple wanted to make developers lives better, they would have spent time improving it and showcasing the improvements.
But messages and Music.
True. However, Apple never quite made reality of that threat. They always took the opportunity to launch some new goodies for the rest of us. This time they actually went all the way. They invited everyone, and when we realized we were watching a shockingly boring stamp collectors' conference and ran for the exits, they locked the doors and said "you're not going anywhere until we've burned a GIF of a dancing Eddy Cue into your long term memory".
I just wish Apple would give its customers a roadmap of planned hardware upgrades. I refuse to pay the price they are asking for their Mac Pro since its hardware is outdate and outperformed by cheaper PC's now.