Scary they didn't talk about Xcode at all
OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. I don't use a Mac or an iPhone, but I applaud this sort of device harmony. That said, I am worried that it would unnecessarily leverage the cloud. My guess is that instead of the two devices directly communicating with one another—that is, instead of leveraging the fact that they are probably on the same local network and should just work in concert—the clipboard dat…
P2P connections is a place that's generally terrible for mobile. You have to keep connections open to more devices, which is generally bad for battery. You could imagine a copy/paste that waits for a message from the cloud (because Apple push notifications are pretty solid), then opens the new connection to the local device, so the data never leaves your network. At least to me, that sounds needless complex when the…
This sort of thing is exactly what Bluetooth Low Energy is for.
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#203I hope there will be option to disable Siri. Don't want turned on mic 24/7.
There's a sysconfig to turn off nearly everything in OS X if you're comfy with the CLI, I doubt Siri would be any different. It will probably be a usual GUI switch though, due to privacy laws.
I know. Very familiar with CLI. I spwnd 80% of time on my MacBook in iTerm. :)
I was pretty disappointed by this WWDC. Any info on next XCode version?
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#204I was really hoping for a Macbook pro with a more up-to-date CPU. Or an upgrade of the non-pro iPad. Really disappointed.
WWDC is about software. Hardware updates mostly happen later in the year.
It's been a while since the Macbook air and pros have been refreshed (no Skylake!), that's why people were thinking it might happen here.
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#205I was really hoping for a Macbook pro with a more up-to-date CPU. Or an upgrade of the non-pro iPad. Really disappointed.
WWDC is about software. Hardware updates mostly happen later in the year.
Actually, a number of hardware announcements and unveilings have happened at WWDC over the years. A couple of iPhones unveiled, a few Macbook Pros (including last year, I believe, as well as 2012 with the first retina MBP), and a few others.
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#206This will finally alleviate the awkward pronunciation ambiguity. To this day, I'm not sure whether to say "OS ex" or "OS ten".
Is it Mac Oh Ess or does it rhyme with GladOS?
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#207Was hoping for a newer filesystem in this release.
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#208It seems like more and more of the work on MacOS is dedicated to propping up iOS instead of simply making a great desktop OS. As someone who does not use or want Apple's mobile devices, it's been hard to get excited about these last few releases.
I like Apple's mobile devices but ever since the iPad turned out to be a giant iPhone instead of a true desktop/mobile hybrid, I'm scared as hell that they will lock down their desktop/laptop ecosystem the way they do with mobile. It's clear now that iOS is absorbing everything Mac.
Now I'm trapped between MacOS, Windows 10 and maybe Google's Chrome environment. Linux, please take off. I wished the open source community had good interface/usability designers.
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#209> Also new is what Apple calls the universal clipboard. This gives users access to a single clipboard that works across iOS and macOS I hope this only works when the 2 devices are on the same wifi network or have bluetooth enabled, rather than by sending every single thing I copy to an Apple server...
Complete and utter speculation, but if this is implemented well I imagine it is done the same as iMessages, with end to end encryption to all your devices. (Which, last I read about it, has its flaws and isn't a perfect system against state level actors, but it's not the worst.)
Handoff is direct between devices, and this is apparently an extension of Handoff.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
It works great - until it doesn't, and then you find all your music is deleted or something [0] They don't exactly have a stellar record on this sort of thing. 0 - http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/13/apple-officially-acknowledges-...
One random user? Which they officially acknowledged even? This might be a less than a stellar record, but not because of that link.
That was just the first link from a Google search.
Internet forums are full of other users complaining of the same problem.
Even if it only affects 0.1% of users, multiply that by the tens of millions, and that's a large number of people having a horrible experience.
It works great for you, until you're in the 0.1% then it's a bitch.
Edit: and it's not just music, it's a mulit-year history of botching up sync across multiple different technologies - some of which I've experienced first hand, some of which I've had friends complain of. Either way, Apple have zero credibility with me and syncing.