Apple WWDC 2026

Post by wpm » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:15 AM UTC

mrexroad wrote: post #164

evan_ wrote: post #96

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I remember one where there were technical issues so Steve just started telling stories about the old days with Woz... impossible to imagine that from ANY tech company today

lol, I have a few other memories of Steve for when there were technical issues during the keynote. WiFi congestion and dead digital camera still pop up in my memory every now and then.

Post by wpm » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:24 AM UTC

llm_nerd wrote: post #57

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.

They communicate the products and product changes quickly, comprehensively and accurately. This was a change that happened at the beginning of COVID, but it turns out most people liked it so it stuck. Many of us don't want to watch people fumble with presentation problems. We don't want the lead in, setup, filler banter, so on. I'll take this sort of "you spend your time perfecting your presentation instead of wastin…

Post by wpm » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:30 AM UTC

tikkabhuna wrote: post #443

crooked-v wrote: post #290

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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?

Post by wpm » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC

WorldPeas wrote: post #446

sixothree wrote: post #266

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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).

Post by wpm » Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 5:36 AM UTC

tmoertel wrote: post #474

rightlane wrote: post #398

WWDC makes me sad. It was such a great in person conference, I remember having a really weird issue with cookie handoff in Safari, and being able to sit down with a bunch of the Safari engineers to troubleshoot the issue. It started with one, then more and more engineers came to give ideas! I appreciate making it available to everyone but it feels like there needs to be some kind of middle ground. IOS development jus…

Do they still have the "Stump The Experts" event at WWDC? You know, where you ask Apple engineers a technical question about their work and, if they can't answer it, you win a t-shirt with tree stumps on it.