What Went Down at WWDC 2019 • Hacker News Board

Re: What Went Down at WWDC 2019

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Post by brlewis » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 6:39 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #57

ekianjo wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is that "allowing them to be more active throughout the day" ? You were already in a position to be more active if you wanted to. It's not like the watch increased your productivity 10 fold and suddenly freed up an additional 3 hours of your day to go exercise. The wording is questionable.

Do you have an Apple Watch? It’s remarkably effective in getting people to exercise who were otherwise not likely to do so.

I believe the issue is with the word "allowing" which is less correct than "motivating" in this context.

Re: What Went Down at WWDC 2019

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Post by brlewis » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 6:44 PM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #36

ekianjo wrote: post #26

> The Apple Watch has become a staple for many, allowing them to be more active throughout the day, and saving many from life-threatening situations throughout the years of its existence Is this a PR piece?

The watches have suggested people go to hospital due to arrhythmia, with life-saving results more than once. The new Apple heart beat sensor supposedly allows this (so you won't find the same functionality on Fitbit etc.). Pity you require an iPhone to even turn them on.

The word "years" suggests they aren't just talking about the new arrhythmia feature.

Re: What Went Down at WWDC 2019

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Post by vardhanagwal » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 6:51 PM UTC

Shoutout to Heartbeat for featuring this post.

Re: What Went Down at WWDC 2019

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Post by vardhanagwal » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 6:51 PM UTC

Tinfoilhat666 wrote: post #43

Platforms State of the Union 2019 had more technical stuff. Here's a good summary of the event/video: https://blog.solomonvictorino.com/wwdc19-platforms-state-of-...

Thanks for sharing that resource!

Re: What Went Down at WWDC 2019

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Post by jedberg » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 6:54 PM UTC

GeekyBear wrote: post #80

jedberg wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sync is controlled from the finder, but the available content is controlled from the TV app.

I'm not certain where you got this impression, but it is incorrect. Here is a link to the correct information on how synch works in the Finder of Mac OS Catalina. https://www.imore.com/how-sync-your-iphone-and-ipad-your-mac...

Did you read the link you posted? It says exactly what I said. That you can’t choose new content to sync without importing it first.

Re: What Went Down at WWDC 2019

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Post by glhaynes » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 6:55 PM UTC

imglorp wrote: post #71

saagarjha wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thousands of year old technology (wheels) back billion dollar transportation companies.

Nobody makes "now, our vehicles come with WHEELS, the new ROUND kind!" their main selling point.

Apple spent like 30 seconds of the keynote on it.

Re: What Went Down at WWDC 2019

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Post by davnicwil » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 7:10 PM UTC

AgentME wrote: post #79

davnicwil wrote: post #67

I missed 'Sidecar' - the thing that'll let you use an ipad as a second screen for a mac. But I don't understand if it's true second screen, i.e. a native replacement for what the Duet app does, or more like a second screen 'portal' for specific apps that implement that functionality.

The ipad shows up just like another monitor to the Mac. You can move your mouse into it and drag windows to and from it. The ipad seems to just be a dumb display (and touch input) when connected. I believe it requires a USB-C connection.

Ah, that's great! I use Duet (paid app) for this at the moment but it's disappointingly flaky - it seems to only work sometimes and when it does, you'd better not touch anything unless it resets and stops working again. Worth the setup effort for longer sessions but hardly practical for shorter ones on the go (which let's face it, is the main usecase). Having this native so it 'just works' out the box would be amazing.

Re: What Went Down at WWDC 2019

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Post by zamalek » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 7:14 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #58

zamalek wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The watches have suggested people go to hospital due to arrhythmia, with life-saving results more than once. The new Apple heart beat sensor supposedly allows this (so you won't find the same functionality on Fitbit etc.). Pity you require an iPhone to even turn them on.

Nitpick: you can “turn them on” without an iPhone.

Feel free to explain how, because all the research I've done suggests that an Apple Watch is completely unusable without an iPhone to set it up.

Re: What Went Down at WWDC 2019

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 7:20 PM UTC

eugeniub wrote: post #34

jedberg wrote: post #32

> No More iTunes For those of you excited by this, don’t be. All they did was split one app into four. It still works the same way. Yes you can see your device in the finder. But you can’t do anything with it other than upgrade the OS and back it up. Want to put a movie on your iPhone? You’d think you could just drag it from finder. But no, you have to load the AppleTV app, which is just the movies and tv part of iTu…

Who still uses the stock iOS app to watch videos? There are a thousand other ways to put video files on your iPhone or iPad and tons of great apps like VLC for iOS, Infuse, etc. that offer many ways of adding video files. I don't fault Apple for not adding new features to the legacy iTunes-iOS media sync system.

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Re: What Went Down at WWDC 2019

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Post by saagarjha » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 7:32 PM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #88

saagarjha wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nitpick: you can “turn them on” without an iPhone.

Feel free to explain how, because all the research I've done suggests that an Apple Watch is completely unusable without an iPhone to set it up.

You can turn it on, but it’s unusable (hence this being a nitpick).