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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by Terretta »

nozzlegear wrote: post #88
seydor wrote: post #79

I often think that Zuck spent so much on metaverse in order to to bait Apple to spend enormously on an experimental product and OS which now they are forced to maintain

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.

VisionPro was/is a dev platform, priced to ensure it wasn't yet a mainstream device.

99% of "apps" for it were confused garbage, totally misunderstanding what it's for or how to use it.

The percentage of apps that "get it" is rising. Not sure if the disillusioned left, or if more are figuring it out.

Either way, when Apple releases something consumer facing, or for consumers' faces, this means there's a prayer of being more than a deluge of Oculus content.

Or at least I'd like to imagine that's what they're doing. :-)

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Post by mft_ »

mark_undoio wrote: post #262
Freedom2 wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious how this trait is American? Is there something about the way Americans speak that is fake?

Speaking as a Brit, our national trait is generally too understate things. So even saying what you mean, directly, comes off as a bit immodest and hyping it up in sales pitches sounds shady. Americans generally say what they mean a bit more, so I think their mid point is just different.

Speaking as a Brit, I couldn’t disagree more. I have no trouble understanding a wide variety of Europeans in a corporate environment, but sometimes struggle to even understand the basics of what Americans are trying to communicate, let alone the nuances of their position.

It’s like ‘American corporate’ is a totally different language that I don’t speak. The words sound the same, but that’s about it.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by yreg »

analogpixel wrote: post #410

I read through a summary of what was announced today, and I don't really want/care about any of it. The biggest apple announcement today that I was excited about, and would tell other people about was https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/ I have an older iPhone that can't run any of this new stuff, and I'm not upgrading because I have no reason to. I think I actually prefer at this point to be on an older phone that wo…

I'm very happy with their announcements

- fixing the main liquid glass issues (transparency, toolbars, window corners)

- rewriting OS components to work better

- fixing the ever annoying "The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time" problem (we knew this was going to happen by following the Swift project, but still)

Honestly, we really really needed a year with less features and more work put towards improving the platforms.

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Post by mft_ »

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…

Move to Europe, friend - a weight will be lifted.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by merlindru »

nicebyte wrote: post #333
chris_money202 wrote: post #270

I have to say, I extremely dislike AI processing of photos. The camera is a vehicle to capture the realness of the world around us, including the imperfect moments. Distorting that with AI and being okay with it is really disappointing.

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, ...) is akin to changing what's displayed in it.

those distortions only serve to let us better focus on what truly happened in a moment, not change the moment in essence.

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Post by tomduncalf »

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.

Yeah I’m surprised by what a design misstep it was. The shiny corners of icons on iOS look so tacky and on macOS the corner radius mismatch is crazy. Also not a fan of the “bulbous” shapes of things with excessive rounded corners.

Whenever I use my personal Mac or iPad, still on the old OS, I wonder what they were thinking - I would guess it was rushed to hit the annual release, as it does have potential in parts.

That said, it looks from the few screenshots in this like you’re able to pare it back to something much closer to how it used to look, which is great and I’m glad they’re taking feedback on board.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by yreg »

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 think it looks good (really good in some usecases!), but I don't like the problems it causes.

- accessibility (hopefully improved soon)

- floating buttons over content that doesnt need to scroll

- switching light/dark when scrolling over content with borderline brightness

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by yreg »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #236
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

Need a Leopard first, we’re firmly in Lion territory currently if we’re talking bad macOS version.

Watching the platform state of the union it really seems we are getting a snow leopard right after the lion. Fingers crossed…

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Post by ashdksnndck »

yurishimo wrote: post #381
xiaoyu2006 wrote: post #311

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I hope they redesign their magic mouse. It's not a real product.

Do you use a Magic Mouse? It’s really not that bad if your only computer use consists of social media and the occasional budgeting spreadsheet. And before you mention it, yes the charging cable. In reality, plugging it in for literally 1 minute will get you enough battery to last hours. 5 minutes will get you an entire day. Normal people plug it in and go get a coffee or pee and then it’s fine until they log off for…

You’ve convinced me. I hope on the next iPhone, they make it so you have to put the MagSafe puck on the front where the screen is instead of that back where it is now.

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Post by Grombobulous »

norman784 wrote: post #172

Are we living the worst times in a while technology wise, this presentation showed nothing useful. Last year at least they showed some interesting features, but as always I don’t use any of them, the only one I wanted in the past few years was to use the iPhone from my mac, but never shipped in EU. And the other feature was universal control that I use every day and works just fine most of the time.

This WWDC is thin, but it seems like a lot of it outside of AI is a refinement year.

For them to just blanket announce that a bunch of stuff across the platforms perform better, that shows that Apple spent most of their effort on quality over shipping features. It’s also possible they’re preparing for less availability of RAM long term and trying to optimize.

The list of stuff they had go highlighted includes a whole bunch of small but impactful little tweaks.

iCloud shared libraries being easier to use outside of Apple operating systems, that’s great. And adding full resolution support, also great. I’ve left iCloud Photos and macOS for myself but I’m stuck on iCloud shared photos with family albums, so making it easier for me to participate is a big plus.

Custom EQ in AirPods. Awesome.

Smoother network transitions between WiFi and cellular. Huge positive impact.

Send indicator in messages, yes please.

The parental controls are industry-leading.

The AI features are the most boring and uninteresting to me, but the little stuff is all big news to me.

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