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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by llm_nerd » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #89

llm_nerd wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I think it is more that axing the audience feedback was convenient for them. In the old WWDC keynotes they had to get the audience to 'wow' and applaud. You could very quickly see a feature sink when Apple announced features where the audience went 'meh'. Now they completely control the narrative. But I have only rarely heard anyone who liking the new-style presentations. It all seems fake with the same woolly busine…

>I think it is more that axing the audience feedback was convenient for them. In the old WWDC keynotes they had to get the audience to 'wow' and applaud.

I feel like I'm about to tell you there is no Santa or something, but did you really not know that Apple always stuffed audiences with Apple employees? Of the remainder it both through intentional and natural selection leaned towards sycophants. Did you really think the roaring response were organic feedback?

It was always controlled. Personally I'm happy to be done with the on-cue tumultuous cheering and whooping.

>But I have only rarely heard anyone who liking the new-style presentations

Well I have only rarely heard anyone who liked the slow, plodding old-style presentation. So...

But yes, HN is overwhelming filled with angry, shakes-fist-at-clouds "it ain't like the olden days!" sorts now. So if you really think this place represents the norm...

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by siva7 » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

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.

are these even real people there? they look so perfectly orchestrated in every hand and body movement, void of any mistake but also soul. you really can't get further away of a real human connection than this.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by anthonypasq » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 6:04 PM UTC

gregcohn wrote: post #59

Would really like Siri AI to have an MCP server

as a third party developer, i would want my app to expose mcp/tools that siri can natively access as well

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by diimdeep » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 6:04 PM UTC

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.

  that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds.
  - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#105

Post by nozzlegear » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

1-6 wrote: post #22

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

While I may hold an unpopular opinion, I really enjoy using liquid glass. It really makes an information-rich screen seem less cluttered.

I agree with you, it looks good on iOS and iPadOS. I'm indifferent toward it on macOS – you hardly ever notice it unless you live in the control center all day (IME anyway).

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by gguingff » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

even the market understands this is a massive failure by apple, nobody needs another chat application especially using that stupid overlay window. looks like apple won't leapfrog anyone and has zero agentic features to show and no resetting a password doesn't count as agentic apple.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by kmlx » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

alberth wrote: post #97

While I give kudos for Apple bring these Intelligent features, but does anyone see themselves using these features in your daily life?

it’s the list of features to disable. it’s been like that for the past… 5 years? 4?

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by bombcar » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #89

llm_nerd wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I think it is more that axing the audience feedback was convenient for them. In the old WWDC keynotes they had to get the audience to 'wow' and applaud. You could very quickly see a feature sink when Apple announced features where the audience went 'meh'. Now they completely control the narrative. But I have only rarely heard anyone who liking the new-style presentations. It all seems fake with the same woolly busine…

The audience was the only thing they couldn't control - so they got rid of the audience.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by qingcharles » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

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.

Now they are showing their AI image generator. It looks about two generations behind, so it's essentially slopmaxxing. Really horrible and unauthentic looking. "Take a picture of your friend, then make a funny picture of her holding a cake." How about no?

The bits that are fine: removing distractions from photos, extensions to the edges, fixing color/exposure etc.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by slg » Mon, Jun 08, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #54

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.

The uncanny hands-but-not-fingers movements they all do really bothers me. Their hands flop around but stay completely limp. Like they're robots who heard that humans move their hands when talking but don't have any fine motor control.

Yeah, the biggest problem is really that they all have the same approach, so these specific details stick out more through repetition. They don't let their presenters speak in their own voice or in their own presentation style. It's ironic for the company that made that 1984 commercial. The attempt at using different speakers to add variety actually ends up doing the opposite because the similarities become even more evident when a dozen people all behave in the same way.