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Video of Apple's WWDC 2014 Keynote Now Available

So many great features that have been available on other ecosystems for so long, it is nice to finally see them start creeping into IOS.

So cringeworthy though to see them crow over how much better IOS is over the "toxic hellstew" of Android, only to then start adopting features that have been available for years (e.g. battery usage monitor) and start cribbing from the likes of Whatsapp.

As an end user I am pleased with anything that improves my user experience, I just hate the cheap point scoring they choose to do all the time, rather than simply rising above it all and letting the software do the talking.
 
thekeyring said:
You can send text messages from you Mac. You find this unimpressive?!
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No, because as he already said , taking call from a pc/mac and sending text (an much more) is old story on android platfom.

What really pleases me is that i finally can use whatever soft keyboard on IOS ('bout time!) , a up-to par notification centre and video previews on itunes (it saves a lot of time when browsing games).
 
thekeyring said:
You can send text messages from you Mac. You find this unimpressive?!
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Yes. Sure it's something nice that it's built into the system. But it's nothing new nor something incredibly useful. For me at least, you're mileage may vary obviously. I don't need my mobile messages on my computer, I have my mobile with me all the time as opposed to my computer.
 
Glad I'm not the only one cursing Quicktime. Seriously its really time to get rid of it play nice with all browsers. This is one of the things I hate about Apple. They don't play well with others.

randfee2 said:
oh please quicktime.... how to enable fullscreen on this? lame to watch it in a letterbox 1/8th of he screen size, rescaling the content of the browser window does not help either.

:(

Pathetic, that apple doesn't even think of this, considering how much attention to detail they claim to spend.
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EMILY PENN IS A TEN!!! She's gorgeous! She's the sailing lady in the video apps we can't live without.
 
WBRacing said:
So many great features that have been available on other ecosystems for so long, it is nice to finally see them start creeping into IOS.

So cringeworthy though to see them crow over how much better IOS is over the "toxic hellstew" of Android, only to then start adopting features that have been available for years (e.g. battery usage monitor) and start cribbing from the likes of Whatsapp.

As an end user I am pleased with anything that improves my user experience, I just hate the cheap point scoring they choose to do all the time, rather than simply rising above it all and letting the software do the talking.
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This is a developer release. From the developer perspective, this is the biggest release, dating back to the iPhone 1. (Possibly going back to 1984.) From the developer perspective, Android is dead.
 
Ralf The Dog said:
This is a developer release. From the developer perspective, this is the biggest release, dating back to the iPhone 1. (Possibly going back to 1984.) From the developer perspective, Android is dead.
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Quite a bold statement you make there. Not personally sure you are correct.
 
Why is this is on AppleTV already but not iTunes Keynote Podcasts yet?

I want to watch it offline but as it is you need to stream it. There's no internet on the train!
 
2 things that made apparent that apple is kind of desperate:

they were comparing adoption rates of mavericks to windows 8. yeah, the free one has a higher adoption rate, magical, right?

and then they said kitkat is only on 9% (or so) of the android devices, while ios 7 has what, 80+%? no way! just ignore that a majority of low-end android devices are not even supposed to run newer versions.
thats like saying: hahaha, your fiat panda doesnt drive as fast as a ferrari! no ****. its not supposed to.

they had a hard time to come up with numbers that make apple look better. and the one they took are dubious at best.

and this was rather early in the keynote too.

a lot of other features... that icloud thing is just dropbox/googledrive. too late, too little.

app-integration to your share-screen is nothing new and has been in android for many years.

they really loved the eye-candy of the transparent windows.

autocomplete in safari isnt impressive.

the new spotlight is neat though.

keyboards... as an android user: yawn.

as far as metal goes: we have to see how it works in reallife situations. these benchmarks or render-videos that were shows are meaningless. could be exciting.
 
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No one cares what I think (that's why I turn to the internet! :D), but I didn't enjoy this keynote as much. I don't know, it was just missing something.

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Mattsasa said:
where/how can I download the keynote??

thanks
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It's on Apple's site now, it will be on iTunes by tomorrow probably.
 
Traverse said:
No one cares what I think (that's why I turn to the internet! :D), but I didn't enjoy this keynote as much. I don't know, it was just missing something.

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It's on Apple's site now, it will be on iTunes by tomorrow probably.
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how can I download off of Apple's site
 
Mattsasa said:
how can I download off of Apple's site
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Someone pointed out on a different thread that the HD version is available on iTunes now.

I had subscribed to the 1080P version (which is HD btw!) but that version isn't available yet.
 
Sort of a fail.

Cant view on their site - just says "check back soon" (win/mac).

Can't dl in itunes... keeps failing 3/4 of the way (win/mac).

Lame. Anyone else had luck?
 
please explain to me how

please explain to me how the following features have been on any other device:

1) answer/receive voice and send SMS through your phone (i don't mean google voice assigned phone number cuz i did that with skype before google voice was out)
2) gps track groups (i want this, friends are such sketches sometimes lol)
3) continuity (i don't mean lookin ur **** up on google docs cuz i did that with FTPs before google was even founded)
4) system level APIs (touch ID in particular)

i'm not trolling, this is a serious question. i don't want to read "i have always done this" i want to know how and see a youtube video, because when i used a galaxy note 3, i had to return it because even though the features were technically there, they were not always practical.
 
Is there a direct link to the video anywhere? The site still tells me the keynote will be Available Shortly. I have everything updated (browser, quicktime, etc.).
 
the-msa said:
Yes. Sure it's something nice that it's built into the system. But it's nothing new nor something incredibly useful. For me at least, you're mileage may vary obviously. I don't need my mobile messages on my computer, I have my mobile with me all the time as opposed to my computer.
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I still much prefer messaging on a laptop with a full keyboard compared to a touch keyboard on a phone. It's nice that it's baked into ios as well as being able to make calls. My biggest issue is still that Apple forces you to use all apple hardware to use most of their services. If they gave complete web based usability with iTunes/iCloud/iPhoto/messages bring Beats in subscription into iTunes and Canada I would likely buy an iPhone and use apple services again.

I guess I could get an iPhone and still use most of Google's services so that's not what's been stopping me. Up till now it's been screen size and an inferior notifications drop down to Android. The ugly icons and bright white menu layout don't help much either.
 
In the video, I find the women who was talking about the oceans sounded very much like Ive does when he's talking through his latest design on one of Apple's videos XD
 
I couldn't understand what the coach said that baseball app was (in that intro video), anybody know what app that is?
 
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