Live From WWDC 2018: Coverage of Apple's Keynote with iOS 12, macOS 10.14, and More

[Ries]

Also called speeding up mandatory animations.

 

[dannyyankou]

The Apple Events app just quit by itself, ugh

 

[Kobayagi]

Should have shown a bent iPhone 6 Plus.

 

[Nozuka]

best iOS release in a long time

 

[Designx]

I'm fine with Apple taking a year to refine and fix their software. This only extends the life of older hardware which can't keep up with the overhead of poorly optimized and buggy code.

 

[lec0rsaire]

Starting with the oldest devices...oh boy.

This is a great strategy. Increasing performance on older devices improves resale value and longevity. This is something Android manufacturers just don’t care about.

 

[itsmilo]

How do they know it’s going to be xy amount faster if it’s still beta until the fall? Sounds like BS

 

[DevNull0]

Love how the graphs of CPU speed don't have scales. They're meaningless pretty pictures. And we're talking microseconds on the "slow" old fashioned CPUs.

The new OS may ramp it 5% faster (or 500% slower) for all those pictures show.

 

[762999]

For IOS 12, we are doubling down on performance

yeah they removed the slowdown they coded themselves for older ios device!

 

[Donfor39]

Software....no early tech surprises.

 

[donovumovi]

We've done more, much more..and it starts with AR

 

[BMcCoy]

Cunning.

Pre-emting all the complaints about the new iOS deliberately slowing down older devices by showing that iOS 12 will make them FASTER!!

Clever Apple marketing team...

 

[leman]

Smart hyper threading. Sounds very exiting and useful!

 

[lec0rsaire]

Well well well, what do we have here? USDZ?

 

[seek3r]

Why are idiots in the audience filming the presentation with their iPhones?

They're playing with AR, pretending he's getting eaten by a dinosaur

 

[donovumovi]

Created a new file format for AR with Pixar

 

[developer13245]

I love how they "polish the turd" of "free updates". Good for Apple (a hardware company), but they still don't see how bad it is for software developers. They never will.

 

[The Catalyst]

USDZ

 

[keysofanxiety]

USDZ. Rolls off the tongue

 

[redbeard331]

Boring, so we have to wait a year for some actual changes?

 

[donovumovi]

Time for a demo from Adobe

 

[762999]

iOS 12 will be called : Snow High Sierra

 

[hotdwag]

It's great that they're focusing on older devices and performance. As a Pixel 2 XL user I'm happy with my device, though Android falls flat when it comes to older device support and adoption as usual.

 

[GigabitEthernet]

Who came up with this name...

Also, just me or does Craig seem a bit "off"?

 

[TMRJIJ]

I’m glad they’re finally making performance improvements on older devices. This was always an underlying issue that pushed me away from keeping my old tech. My iPhone 4 went downhill fast around iOS 6/7

 

[lec0rsaire]

yeah they removed the slowdown they coded themselves for older ios device!

Do you really think it’s physically possible for a 1GB RAM device to perform as well as one with 2-4GB RAM and a much faster SoC? Every new iOS release is more demanding than the last. I guess iOS 12 will be like 10.6 was to 10.5.