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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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Because the keynote is mainly for non-developers. The same thing happens at the research conferences I attend. If a keynote address was just a rehash of all the technical things I could get from a research article, I'd stop going to keynotes. With the keynotes (particularly at WWDC) Apple shows off a few things that wouldn't be mind-numbing for most people - like APIs and other behind the scenes stuff. The rest of the conference is for developers so they can start asking all the nitty gritty questions.
Over 40 year old devs and StackOverflow devs bitter?? Never!!!!Way too much criticism of Swift Playground. It's meant for newbies and kids -- every cut away they showed of the audience during that demo was of the kids and teens attending. You have to start somewhere and I think there's a fair amount of bitterness by current developers that something like this wasn't around when they started.
That demographic is the antithesis of growth and evolution. Thank god for these kids and teens. Seriously.p.s. Not much of a WatchOS refresh.
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That's the horrid misconception - that something like Swift Playground is only for "kids." You know what's also for kids? A one button mouse.
Indications on the day mean little . Original iPhone raised apple stock by 64% in 6 months.
Let's give it a little time and see how much confidence that keynote gave the Markert. It will show up soon....
Did you watch the debut of OS X when Jobs showed it off in 2000? The focused on trivial things like the dock, moving windows while seeing icons, watching videos in the dock, colored buttons to close or manipulate windows, showing slow-mo genie effect. Etc.
Many, many, many, more examples of such things from more recent WWDC events. It's kinda the same every year.
Here's a gift for those preaching that WWDC should not present new hardware:
WWDC 2006: Mac Pro
WWDC 2008: iPhone 3G
WWDC 2009: New MacBook Pro models (13-inch MacBook Pro and updates to the 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros) and iPhone 3GS
WWDC 2010: iPhone 4
WWDC 2012: New MacBooks (updated MacBook Airs and MacBook Pro with Retina Display)
WWDC 2013: New Mac Pro and New MacBook Air
xoxo
WWDC 2006: Mac Pro
WWDC 2008: iPhone 3G
WWDC 2009: New MacBook Pro models (13-inch MacBook Pro and updates to the 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros) and iPhone 3GS
WWDC 2010: iPhone 4
WWDC 2012: New MacBooks (updated MacBook Airs and MacBook Pro with Retina Display)
WWDC 2013: New Mac Pro and New MacBook Air
xoxo
Well call Tim and tell him he got it wrong ..... And should change plans to have ir implemented in schools . Did you watch the keynote ? I suggest you do again and realize who it's aimed at
cause all you are doing is complaining that you didn't get what you wanted. so go to a system that can do that and if you are so unhappy with apple and their advancements then you shouldn't spend anymore money with them.
Exactly. The apologiesers choose to ignore history when it suits them.
You DO realize that there are more than likely KEY features that will not be unveiled until the next iPhone is introduced, don't you?
So I'm guessing Mac's will be announced in September or October. I really liked the new iMessage features, Apple Pay for websites looks great and being able to log into a Mac with my Apple Watch would be great.
I noticed the new Photo's features, I'm guessing this will be to work well with the iPhone 7 later in the year, the object detection could be a feature on the dual camer of the iPhone 7.
I noticed the new Photo's features, I'm guessing this will be to work well with the iPhone 7 later in the year, the object detection could be a feature on the dual camer of the iPhone 7.
This is the new disappointment emoji:
Like... '3x bigger' ?
at least in terms of iPhones, they stopped announcing new iPhone hardware at WWDC a few years back when they moved it to the September (old iPod) event.
Craig more or less confirmed this when he said "the other features I can't talk about"
Although the keynote sucked, it's been fun to post and read all these cynical comments here. Thanks guys!
Well, so far its what many people have been asking for: small incremental updates and polish. Nothing really exiting or earth-shattering. Siri updates look interesting though, that might open up a lot of practical perspectives. Would like to see which APIs have been changed/introduced this time.
Oh, I'd much prefer an Apple era when customers were truly happy and excited for revolutionary products and services rather than their biggest joy being popping emojis.
But we already know about that. It's going to come in awesomely innovative Blue. I'm holding out for the Blue and Rose Gold swirl.