Watch Apple's Two-Hour 2016 WWDC Keynote in 7 Minutes

[Janichsan]

It's a developer event. Not a media event.

Because as mentioned that was the media and public part of the conference ...

To recap that little part of this discussion:

Tunster: That was a developer event, not a media event, duh.
Me: Then why was there so little specifically for developers?
C DM: It was a media event, not a developer event, duh.

Another highlight in human communication.

 

[niun]

I'm not entirely sure it was a media OR developer event.

It was more like some terrible parody of an Apple event. Seemed more like an SNL sketch than something professionals would do.

 

[kentsydney]

Apple today unveiled new versions of iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS, all of which are jam-packed with new features. iOS in particular was referred to as Apple's biggest iOS update ever, with major improvements to Messages, Apple Music, Siri, and tons of other minor features.

It took Apple two hours to go over all of the features in the four operating systems and it was still a lot to take in, so we made a seven minute recap video that features all of the need-to-know highlights.

Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos.​

Stay tuned to MacRumors.com going forward because we're going to be sharing in-depth videos highlighting new features in iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS throughout the coming weeks, and we'll be publishing detailed roundups with everything you need to know about all of Apple's upcoming software updates.

All of the four operating systems are currently available to developers only with a release slated for the fall of 2016.

Article Link: Watch Apple's Two-Hour 2016 WWDC Keynote in 7 Minutes

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[mkeeley]

Love how the usual defenders say of course no hardware announcements it was wwdc. Either short memories or haven't been in the Apple ecosystem for long.

Ignoring hardware it was overall very poor. The lowlight was the song and dance they made over messages. The saddest parts, so much to choose from, larger applause for the MacOS name change than any new features, keep asking the audience to clap, text to emoji. Biggest laugh Cook talking about coding, how many think he even knows what Swift is?

 

[niun]

how many think he even knows what Swift is?

Isn't Swift that bar in the Castro?

The saddest part in all of this for me personally is that I used to respect Apple. Odd but true.
Now, no..
If the next iOS isn't written in crayon, presented by Sesame Street and brought to you by the letter, "

" , I'll be shocked.

 

[MacBH928]

Spoiler

via Imgflip Meme Generator

So, when should we expect to see the new Macbook Pros? (I so wish I bought the broadwell last June)

 

[Wahlstrm]

Never expected to see 2 middle aged people trying to text like 8 year olds on stage at an Apple event..

 

[Xade]

Excellent. Lot's of new 'features' that I will use once and forget they are there, as opposed to a new Macbook Pro which I would would use every day. Yay, go Apple, emojis etc. Woot, woot.

 

[dav1dd]

I don't know why people expect anything interesting to come out of WWDC. I'm being serious - I honestly don't. Joe public is clueless that an event like this is even happening. The September keynote actually gets mainstream media coverage - this event doesn't. So, why announce something worthwhile at an event that no-one really cares about? (Apart from developers, of course.)

 

[Omega Mac]

There was little time in that presentation to include hardware. I watched it live and I enjoyed it all cringeworthy as it was at moments. Yes there are still problems but overall things are being progressed.

New macOS functionality is going to be hardware and not just software dependant.

They will need to devote more time to that as I'd say it could fill up a good half hour.

The raising of privacy and children as a core concern was really important for me, something way more important than hardware but something I expect hardware to follow through on.

Most become a concerned parent at some point.

I think that was a huge declaration of the APPLE vision. Take for example how the world porn has seeped into everyday language and become common parlance, routinely used for article and content headlines. There is no watershed anymore, content is on 24/7 on ever growing number of platforms. Children need to be protected from it and also nurtured not monitored from cradle to grave by deep data harvesting.

Also it's appalling vista when you think you may have to explain that to your child what the word means when it's been placed out of context in normal media.

I'm way more pulsed to buy into the Apple vision and thus products. I laughed at the early I"m dusting off my A500/A1000" comments, I had to double check people were referring to what I thought they were. I too was avid Amiga kid in the 80's. Apple is the closest thing I've ever had that connects me with the joy of my early Amiga days in the last eight or so years.

Apple putting it's shoulder behind Swift playgrounds really touched me on a deeper level.

I think many forget how the world for most people is not the one you enjoy and wakeup to, now think about being a kid in a reality less than yours.

I really felt a considerable amount of joy for the younger kids. I remember that joy as a child when seeing early computing and I could see the look on those kids faces. They're not cynical and twisted yet by a system that don't really doesn't work in their favour, but give them some quality tech and they'll build a better more functional world from under the feet of the dinosaurs who refuse to play fair.

I do think it's easy to forget what made us get excited about computing. It's not simple a career choice it is a want to play and you can play with world changing technology and we've all be willing participants in it which is being enabled more and more by companies like Apple. I prefer their declared vision over the majority of other companies who want your mind and probably soon your body.

You're looking at a company setup by big eyed idealistic kids who now have kids themselves, and can look back and see the truth that as adult their roll now changes to helping in protecting and nurturing future generations.

They spent a lot of time on something that is no directly profitable. Yes future customers and all that but I don't see that pathway in the Alphabet/M$ world. I think many are under estimating how clued in APPLE are and are on the pulse with this direction.

In sincerely hope there privacy and security stays high and gets better. I am a bit concerned about auto-unlock and the new screen widgets things as the lock screen thus far has a few Siri holes that still need to be plugged. Maybe they are reworking this whole aspect and in iOS 10 will have closed this off with the more intense development of that lock screen functionality

Personally I don't really leek widgets on Android. I prefer the simplicity of iOS.

 

[mkeeley]

I don't know why people expect anything interesting to come out of WWDC. I'm being serious - I honestly don't. Joe public is clueless that an event like this is even happening. The September keynote actually gets mainstream media coverage - this event doesn't. So, why announce something worthwhile at an event that no-one really cares about? (Apart from developers, of course.)

Your first time watching wwdc then? If not what are you talking about. And how is announcing new versions of each OS not of interest to Joe Public?

 

[TonyC28]

It seems you and many others here intentionally fail to understand what the purpose of a developer's conference is.

It's a four day event targeting developers who design apps for four different operating systems (macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS), and opened with a keynote presentation with a top-level summary of those operating systems and key technology components and apps. During the four day period there are workshops and 1,000 Apple engineers available to help get developers up to speed on the changes.

There were significant updates discussed in the keynote to give developers a heads-up on what to expect. It's mind boggling and intellectually dishonest for those concluding it was only about an emoji update, the renaming of macOS, and, other than that not much else new.

We're having a discussion online so I try not to take any of this too seriously, but I am honestly a little offended. I am not "intentionally" failing to understand anything. I am fully aware of what the "DC" in WWDC stands for. But I will simply stand by my original post and say that everything could have easily have been announced through online videos or an updated apple.com.
As long as we're talking about people intentionally failing to understand things I have a question for you: do you really believe that Keynote presentations are designed solely for developers?

 

[nt5672]

This video leaves out too many parts of the keynote. It's missing the part about the new Macbook Pro, the new Mac Pro, the new Mac Mini, the new Thunderbolt Display, etc.

Or actually anything related to development.
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We're having a discussion online so I try not to take any of this too seriously, but I am honestly a little offended. I am not "intentionally" failing to understand anything. I am fully aware of what the "DC" in WWDC stands for. But I will simply stand by my original post and say that everything could have easily have been announced through online videos or an updated apple.com.
As long as we're talking about people intentionally failing to understand things I have a question for you: do you really believe that Keynote presentations are designed solely for developers?

No, but the relative importance of some of the items in the Keynote and the lack of items important to developers signals a total letdown from Apple. Add to that the total lack of Mac hardware updates and its easy to see why some people can easily fall into negative opinions. This is the first Keynote video that I simply turned off and I'm a Mac fanboy. That is the point.

 

[croco_dile]

Some nice features, but most of them are already available on other platforms, so Apple is just playing catch ups... not to mention there are a lot more other features that Apple still don't offer

Steve Jobs we miss you!

 

[Kkspire]

I am on the other side of the planet right now so it was already difficult to stay awake. I think we all expect Apple to keep upgrading the System software of their devices. A lot of the improvements are actually very nice but Apple must know that at least half of the (world wide) audience was waiting for computer hardware news.

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[citysnaps]

We're having a discussion online so I try not to take any of this too seriously, but I am honestly a little offended. I am not "intentionally" failing to understand anything. I am fully aware of what the "DC" in WWDC stands for. But I will simply stand by my original post and say that everything could have easily have been announced through online videos or an updated apple.com.
As long as we're talking about people intentionally failing to understand things I have a question for you: do you really believe that Keynote presentations are designed solely for developers?

No. The media was invited as well. Nobody claimed solely.

 

[Kkspire]

I am on the other side of the planet right now so it was already difficult to stay awake. I think we all expect Apple to keep upgrading the System software of their devices. A lot of the improvements are actually very nice but Apple must know that at least half of the (world wide) audience was waiting for computer hardware news.

http://dpmac.com/2016/06/wwdc-2016-last-minute-thoughts-from-a-macbook-pro-user/[/QUOTE

So half of everyone in the world was waiting for new hardware to be released, at a software developer conference? sounds like a personal problem

 

[C DM]

To recap that little part of this discussion:

Tunster: That was a developer event, not a media event, duh.
Me: Then why was there so little specifically for developers?
C DM: It was a media event, not a developer event, duh.

Another highlight in human communication.

Only when you completely overlook the rest of the reply you are quoting...

 

[ohbrilliance]

I just watched the keynote. Perhaps I'm not old or jaded enough, but there was so much good stuff in there. Am I allowed to say that around here?

 

[lordofthereef]

Well, with the Apple Watch the doomsayers were kind of right ;-) What an irrelevant thing, at least in its current incarnation.

Honestly, I still feel that way about the iPad. I tried using one and it was a completely irrelevant device for my lifestyle. Still, many swear by it. Same with the Apple Watch, though that group is a much smaller one.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

I just watched the keynote. Perhaps I'm not old or jaded enough, but there was so much good stuff in there. Am I allowed to say that around here?

If your age ends in the word "teen", then it's perfectly acceptable for you to get excited about the "good stuff".
For the rest of us "old and jaded" people, the posts here pretty much spell it out.

 

[iZac]

The new iMessage is a horrible cluster of poorly conceived, disjointed ideas desperately trying to capture the snapchat generation, and just a making a hideous mess.

Having said that I did chuckle at the "emojification" feature as Federighi stated "Children of tomorrow will have no understanding of the English Language"

 

[mdelvecchio]

you know what's pathetic? that all the top rated comments are from haters. it's sad what MR has become.

 

[ProjectManager101]

THIS! is a keynote! THIS is what I want to keep seeing. I am so in need of a good keynote that I am watching this one again :S

 

[ixxx69]

you know what's pathetic? that all the top rated comments are from haters. it's sad what MR has become.

On the flip side of that, most of the top rated commented (the so-called "haters") are people who really like Apple products, or did like Apple products, and they see all the focus of Apple on trivial things that are no longer making the products better, but actually worse, and for all the wrong reasons.

Look, I get it when it's the same few folks in a forum complaining about the same things over and over, month after month. I find that annoying as well. And I don't know the posting history of everyone here. But sometimes, forums are like the proverbial canary in the coal mine.