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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by kirubakaran »

dijit wrote: post #261
Freedom2 wrote: post #243

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

Yeah, absolutely. At least to my British ears, Americans rarely sound authentic. Its always grandiose statements and elaborate smiles.

Ah yes British, the famously direct people who say things like "Maybe I haven’t explained this very well", "I’ll bear it in mind", or "How interesting!" which anyone unfamiliar with the culture would interpret to be the opposite of what was actually meant.

"I may be wrong", but perhaps 'Americans rarely sound authentic' to you simply because you're just more familiar with your own culture's idiosyncrasies?

Anyway, I love the Brits; no flame intended. I come in peace! :-)

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by chris_money202 »

thiht wrote: post #434
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.

> The camera is a vehicle to capture the realness of the world around us, including the imperfect moments I mean... that's your opinion, not a fact :) I kinda agree, yet I will make small edits to my pictures to make them more like I felt than how it looked. Maybe in a happy moment the sky was more blue to me than it actually was and I want my picture to reflect it. Maybe I was happier and less tired than the picture…

I think it’s pretty easy to judge when in conjunction with AI edited photos you have algorithms that award that. So sure it might be just some people that do it, but it ends up being all that is seen. Is Apple to blame in that? No. But are they completely innocent? Also no

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by sixothree »

chatmasta wrote: post #332
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.

Luckily for Apple, their primary competitor has managed to make their OS even worse. Windows becomes more unusable with every update, and on top of that, continues shoving telemetry and advertising into the OS. I installed windows on a laptop as an experiment and was shocked to see ads in the start menu. Who wants that?! The best OS is probably something between Ubuntu and macOS. But nothing beats macOS on default, w…

I already agree with you on every single point. But Finder, holy heck is Finder awful. As someone who uses a filesystem as a first-class feature of an operating system, Finder it's one of the most horrible things about Mac OS.

I say this as someone who uses and has owned too many Macs, but can just never make them my primary machine. I promise, I've spent the last 30 years trying to make them my main.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

Grombobulous wrote: post #420
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…

> The parental controls are industry-leading.

They've been awful for me. This is best-in-class software? It breaks constantly. It fails to notify me of all kinds of events that should work, but spontaneously fail to. This could be someone entering the parental control pin or requesting to download an app. It's misery to deal with.

I've used it for years across several devices and kids. It's some of the worst software I ever need to use.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by sonar_un »

IMTDb wrote: post #51
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.

People smiling while using Siri and holding their phones 2 meters away from their faces looks genuinely disturbing and fake. We are at that point where I hope their next stream will be AI generated so it looks more natural.

Go watch the dev videos, they feel 100% AI. The people are real, but everything else about it is uncanny valley.

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Post by ksec »

lynndotpy wrote: post #460
xoa wrote: post #260

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> shows just how bad it was > Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond. Worth remembering too that this isn't merely about "complaints", Apple has significant metrics on the rates at which users are upgrading to a new OS, or not. You can opt-out of sharing that data, but a lot of people (even technical…

Yes!! I agree with this entirely. As far as I know, the best data the rest of us have is Google Trends. And based on that, it really does look like Liquid Glass elicited the largest negative reaction that Apple has ever had to an OS release. "How to Switch to Android" hit 3x its all time peak, "iPhone revert update", hit 4x its all-time peak, "iPhone slow" hit 8x its all time peak, "iPhone bad now" hit 5x its all tim…

There are probably other parts as well. Dissatisfaction against Apple for App Store has been high, may be for some Liquid Glass was the last straw. Omarchy had the highest number of Apple user switch to Linux. 100,000 downloads may be small numbers by Apple standards but even if half of that were developers coming from Apple Mac I think it is a pretty big shift.

The worst part, intentionally or not they left macOS 26 as the last release for all the Intel user.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by ksec »

wtallis wrote: post #440
acdha wrote: post #427

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This is off-topic and it’s especially a waste of attention because it’s a social media meme, not a real problem. People who actually use them don’t spend time talking about it because it means every few months you plug it in long enough for a coffee break, and in return you can use it for many years without the connector breaking.

Even if you set aside the stupid charging situation, it's still a bad mouse. The multitouch capabilities are not well used by the software, and it's the only mouse I've ever used that routinely sends scroll events while I'm just trying to click or drag. Their laptops are pretty good at rejecting accidental touchpad inputs despite those touchpads being quite large, but the mouse is a constant source of unintentional i…

This! It is a bad design because it is a compromise. It is flat because of the need of multitouch, which doesn't get used. And because of this flatness it is not ergonomic to hold it.

It is neither a good trackpad replacement nor a good mouse design.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by spartanatreyu »

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…

It's not just the terrible charging that makes it a bad product.

It's also the terrible ergonomics.

It's the epitome of putting form before function. It's a desk ornament that leads to frequent injuries with use. See: https://www.google.com/search?q=magic+mouse+injury

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by merlindru »

SSLy wrote: post #441
merlindru wrote: post #415

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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

i would say that that also doesn't change the essence of the moment displayed in the image, unless the image itself is about planes/projection/...

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by flutas »

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…

FWIW: My colleague went to Google IO in person this year, he said the entire vibe was just off this year describing it as "almost somber" to quote him.
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