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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by SSLy »

merlindru wrote: post #415
nicebyte wrote: post #333

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when you re-crop a photo or use the perspective tool, you are literally distorting the image. not to mention, all of the processing that happens in modern cameras before you even see the image. in the case of a modern smartphone in particular, I think it's fair to say that you never really see the "real" image as captured by the CCD sensor, and even if you did you would not like it anyway.

cropping doesn't alter the moment captured. or, rather, you're also cropping when taking a picture - no camera can capture all 360 degrees. so what is being captured is altered from the get. yet i don't think you'd argue that the act of taking a photo is the same as photoshopping a giant giraffe into a photo :P i don't think arguing that taking a photo which is cropped/enhanced (as in sharpening, color correction, ..…

what about keystone correction? A staple in any proper digital image editing tool

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by WorldPeas »

chatmasta wrote: post #18
WorldPeas wrote: post #17

Hopefully this new golden gate update is really the snow leopard everyone's been hoping for.. already exciting one can now (if only partially) disable liquid glass

Liquid Glass is fine for me since I put it in grayscale. I actually like it. I’m just talking about iOS though. Haven’t updated to Liquid (Gl)ass on macOS yet.

I'm in the same camp. I'm glad that I chose now to get my carrier-backed phone update because I wouldn't have been able to endure the keyboard still breaking and apps popping in like the interface is a windows ce skin for very long

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by tikkabhuna »

crooked-v wrote: post #290
tpdly wrote: post #277

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Apple would have to allow USERS the possibility of giving any virtual assistant direct access to their own private data. Is that accurate?

Apple doesn't trust other providers. See, for example, the ongoing attempts by Facebook & co to exfiltrate as much data as possible. A theoretical Facebook alternative here to super-Siri would have a pipe to slurp up the entire phone's data. This kind of thing overlaps with the anti-competitive practices driven by Apple's MBAs (like the whole thing with Epic), but it's a genuine concern and one their engineering peop…

Is the end state that countries regulate app stores and approve apps? Apple has legit concerns. The majority of users would happily sell their own data for some tiny benefit. However, like you say, Apple has a perceived or real conflict of interest. Are Apple being benevolent or acting in their own interests?

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by avazhi »

joakleaf wrote: post #128
antirez wrote: post #36

They try so hard to do a polished presentation that everything is kinda fake and unauthentic. I don't understand how this attitude survived so many years.

It feels fake, because they speak in a way that sounds unnatural and overelaborate. It is so long, with so many unnecessary sentences. And it feels like everything is said at least twice; First a generic statement about the new feature. Then a specific example, or a deeper explanation of what the first generic statement was. Then a demo. And then a conclusion to the future. The old Steve Jobs keynotes focused on the…

It’s basically LLM-slop in presentation form.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by jackp96 »

naikrovek wrote: post #316
theshrike79 wrote: post #137

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To me it just sounds so very American. Using so many praising adjectives they stop meaning anything anymore. If everything is fabulous and great and you’re always excited or proud, that becomes the baseline.

As an American with autism, I see it too. Small talk is all lies. Almost all praise is fake. And it all drives me insane. I can fit in at work just fine, I can appear joyful and excited to come to work, I have 30 years of practice with it. But I avoid it whenever possible because it is all lies. Americans appear to oversell everything because people get mad if you don’t. “Why can’t you just be positive?!” Because I’m…

So I'm not personally on the spectrum, but I definitely get the frustration with "this is so fake; why are we all pretending it's not?" experiences.

But "almost all praise is fake" and "small talk is all lies" feels like a pretty depressing place to end up?

Why do you feel like that's the case? How do you differentiate sincere praise from "fake" praise?

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by WorldPeas »

sixothree wrote: post #266
philistine wrote: post #26

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People talk about Liquid Glass as if it equal on all fronts. It's absolutely not. Apple knows which way their bread is buttered, that they can't mess up the iPhone. So Liquid Glass is fine on iOS. It's on Mac that it's a garbage fire of ridiculous design decisions. Still the best OS around, but it looks like it was made by idiots.

I really think Mac OS is one of the worst operating systems to begin with. How is liquid glass going to make it worse. I will 100% leave the criticism of liquid glass on Mac OS to others. But Liquid Glass on iOS has been one of my favorite updates. I like the look and feel of it. They made some tangentially related changes that go too far.

the truth (that most people here would tell you) is that macos may be worse than linux, but it's generally understood, you can install companions for proprietary hardware much more easily and coworkers won't look at you with a blank stare when you explain that you're switching them all to it for mdm purposes (as they would with linux/windows).

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Post by Royce-CMR »

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #438
antirez wrote: post #36

They try so hard to do a polished presentation that everything is kinda fake and unauthentic. I don't understand how this attitude survived so many years.

> is kinda fake and unauthentic I think Apple can't find their voice since Steve Jobs passed/stopped doing the presentations. Thats why it feels inauthentic. I imagine its also hard to really feel "best (iphone|ipad|macos|etc) yet" when they are debuting features that existed elsewhere for a while. Its just a massive disconnect from anyone but fans. The same could be said for innovative features, whats left to innova…

You have to remember that Steve spent months, stories say half a year, preparing for the keynote. Arguments would get so heated he’d fire people and bring them back the next day to continue.

Hate him or love him; he knew that was the single largest stage for Apple and put the effort into each one. The keynotes today are like Apple overall, a fantastic organization that is starting to drift toward.. fake.

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Post by sleepybrett »

theshrike79 wrote: post #168
nozzlegear wrote: post #88

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I used to have an Apple Vision Pro; it was a genuinely great piece of tech. IMO if Apple went somewhere like wearable glasses with it, it'd be a hit.

Apple Vison Regular will come one day, and might actually be worth it. If I can _actually_ replace my monitors with a headset, I’m in. Vision Pro could do it but was way too heavy to use 8 hours a day

the steam frame is reported to be 200-400 grams lighter than the vision pro (not sure why the vision pro weights are reported as variable... the strap maybe).

I hope apple actually considers the usecase of using the glasses instead of 1 or more monitors with more priority.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by Royce-CMR »

prymitive wrote: post #256

The only thing that interested in is: did they fix screen brightness getting super dim even when the slider is at max? That’s incredibly annoying and frustrating, and it’s been like that since first 26 release. And it’s a clear bug because brightness resets to expected level if I go to photos and open an HDR image. I can wait for autocomplete that doesn’t suggest garbage 50% of the time, but this one is just too anno…

Damn I thought this was just me. I figured it was a temp thing - device too hot for ongoing high brightness, and the photos app overrides because someone decided if you are trying to show a photo, do the job right to the limit.

Ugh so newer phones have this too? (15 pro max). Another reason to not upgrade.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by unshavedyak »

xnx wrote: post #272
WoodenChair wrote: post #25

Apple very rarely admits mistakes. The fact they're rolling back some of the extremeness in Liquid Glass and actively mentioned in the keynote that they very seriously took the user feedback shows just how bad it was, at least initially.

> Apple very rarely admits mistakes. Probably the best reversion was getting rid of the butterfly keyboard and bringing back ports after Jony Ive was gone.

Man did I despise that keyboard. I went from hating that to adoring my M3. Which feels good because I loved my MacBook before those butterfly switches, and again I love my MacBook now.

I almost left apple entirely over those stupid switches lol.

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