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Well, that is your opinion - I and many others think differently and that is the way of the world.

BTW - I hope that we finally see some game changing announcements this morning that change my mind !!
 
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This is WWDC, they key of this is 'developers conference'. This isn't geared towards general customers, it's aimed at developers and tools for them to work with and things they can now use. It's just that interest in Apple has got to the point where even a developers conference in under the spotlight. WWDC isn't about new hardware, yeah ok Apple should spread out hardware releases instead of having them all at the end of the year. WWDC shouldn't be about hardware releases and people shouldn't expect them at WWDC, so failure to launch hardware at WWDC shouldn't mean it's a failure.

Yeah, I get that. What I expect to see is the direction the company is headed and what to expect for the next year. So far, half an hour in, we've got a watchOS update with a handful of useful features and a ton of gimmicks. Scribble? Seriously are we that &$#&@£€ lazy now that you can't get the phone out for a 15 word text message? I can really see people standing around for three minutes trying to draw out a text a letter at a time. this stuff facilitates laziness and idiocy.

I wasn't expecting the world. I was hoping for a signal of a change in direction. So far it's just more of the same trite stuff.
 
I don't know what I'll do if there's no new Mac Pro. Probably nothing good.
New Macs (if Apple will update the Mac mini and Mac Pro at all) will probably come in fall. Don't think we will see any hardware refresh today (except maybe the Macbooks with that OLED bar thingy).
 
So, how is WWDC being received? Stock down to 97.54 and Cory Johnson (Bloomberg) was being interviewed outside WWDC - the topic was the MS / LinkedIn deal.
 
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macOS Sierra .... like Sierra Nirvana ? :D
 
horrible messages app mess, I guess I will need to use whatsapp exclusively now...
I though apple was all about removing skeuomorphism.
 
horrible messages app mess, I guess I will need to use whatsapp exclusively now...
I though apple was all about removing skeuomorphism.
Seems like you can use the messages app just as you use it today.
 
unless I can limit app shaking and random huge pictures and drawings from popping up to read the message then I cannot.
Well, that's mostly on the other end of who you are communicating with. Similar to how someone you are talking to on the phone can just shout into it or play some random music or sound effects if they feel like it.
 
Well, that's mostly on the other end of who you are communicating with. Similar to how someone you are talking to on the phone can just shout into it or play some random music or sound effects if they feel like it.
exactly, but a call sucks the same amount of minutes if you are singing, screaming or talking. text messages are supposed to be short talks, but this is worse than the voice texts. I imagine we will see a lot of kiddie quality drawings and pictures w this app, good for making fun of politicians when they screw up and pics get leaked though.
Anyway, there are many apps that can make shorts like Instagram, messages doesn't need to try to get into it... IMO many of the new things on the conference remind me of the same quality of development that went into itunes ping. Even the hip people on stage were trying too hard.
 
exactly, but a call sucks the same amount of minutes if you are singing, screaming or talking. text messages are supposed to be short talks, but this is worse than the voice texts. I imagine we will see a lot of kiddie quality drawings and pictures w this app, good for making fun of politicians when they screw up and pics get leaked though.
Anyway, there are many apps that can make shorts like Instagram, messages doesn't need to try to get into it... IMO many of the new things on the conference remind me of the same quality of development that went into itunes ping. Even the hip people on stage were trying too hard.
Again, seems like those who might be interested in that will use it, and those who won't, won't. Seems like you and many others won't use most of it, which is just fine, and those you communicate with might or might not, but ultimately that part of it depends on those people you talk to essentially.
 
I've had high end Quadros and I've felt the performance (on 3ds Max) was on par with consumer cards at four times the price.

With Apple it's been an all or nothing situation: either the MP (Xeon, ECC, DX00) or a computer crippled by compromises, despite the fact that most professionals would be perfectly happy with a consumer version of the Mac Pro (i7, non-ECC, consumer GPU).

Computers have reached a point where even mid to high-end consumer cards are incredibly powerful, and would be enough for most uses, yet Apple doesn't even give us a choice, except in a compromised AIO iMac or an overpriced, rapidly-aging non-upgradable Mac Pro.

If you are willing to shell out enough money to get a Mac Pro, you better be getting some FP64 performance. And neither Nvidia, nor AMD, are willing to let consumer cards have the FP64 performance that they enable on their workstation cards. If you don't need FP64 performance, you don't need a Mac Pro.
 
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