WWDC 2024 [video] • Hacker News Board

Re: WWDC 2024 [video]

#21

Post by ksec » Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

I dislike a lot of the iOS changes are making it more "Android". It doesn't make things any easier or simpler. If I wanted ultra customisation I would have gotten an Android. And no Password App on iOS 18.

Re: WWDC 2024 [video]

#22

Post by menacingly » Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 5:42 PM UTC

this is the video form of "bug fixes and performance improvements", and about as charismatic

Re: WWDC 2024 [video]

#23

Post by vundercind » Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 5:44 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #21

I dislike a lot of the iOS changes are making it more "Android". It doesn't make things any easier or simpler. If I wanted ultra customisation I would have gotten an Android. And no Password App on iOS 18.

Preach. iOS 6 UI was peak iOS UI.

Re: WWDC 2024 [video]

#24

Post by jadbox » Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 5:45 PM UTC

dev_daftly wrote: post #19

So far, everything should have just been a blog post

I'm also feel Apple announced a bunch of feature that doesn't make the platform more useful in any general way. Like, I don't NEED iOS to pick my watch background photo or recolor my icons.

Re: WWDC 2024 [video]

#25

Post by markatkinson » Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 5:45 PM UTC

This feels like a parody of itself at times. I really wish they'd make these less cringeworthy so I could actually sit through the whole thing.

Re: WWDC 2024 [video]

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Post by doctorpangloss » Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

jadbox wrote: post #24

dev_daftly wrote: post #19

So far, everything should have just been a blog post

I'm also feel Apple announced a bunch of feature that doesn't make the platform more useful in any general way. Like, I don't NEED iOS to pick my watch background photo or recolor my icons.

On the contrary these aesthetic things are what like 99% of people actually want.

Re: WWDC 2024 [video]

#27

Post by vundercind » Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 5:50 PM UTC

I like how fast they turned “ha ha, at least they have a sense of humor about how stupid it is that it’s taken this long to get Calculator on iPad” into “…oh my” when Pencil entered the picture.

Good that it delivers something really nice and isn’t just finally getting the damn thing on iPad.

Re: WWDC 2024 [video]

#28

Post by behnamoh » Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 5:51 PM UTC

vundercind wrote: post #23

ksec wrote: post #21

I dislike a lot of the iOS changes are making it more "Android". It doesn't make things any easier or simpler. If I wanted ultra customisation I would have gotten an Android. And no Password App on iOS 18.

Preach. iOS 6 UI was peak iOS UI.

This. And then a coup happened inside Apple (the Apple maps debacle) to oust Scott Forstall.

Re: WWDC 2024 [video]

#29

Post by skc » Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 5:53 PM UTC

Math notes looks incredible, but it's probably one of those features that will be infuriating for anything remotely complex.

Re: WWDC 2024 [video]

#30

Post by scop » Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 5:53 PM UTC

I really wish they would switch these back to being live. It just adds a human element that cannot be captured with this crap. Steve stood up there in a black sweater and let the tech speak for itself. On these I'm stuck beholding the same class of high-income-Silicon-Valley-mid-40s where they are all kind of weirdly look and sound the same even though they are all trying so hard to have unique styles and they are all just so excited to be telling you the thing that is really important and gives their life deep meaning and peace and they are so happy.