Did any of the WWDC keynote excite you? If so, what?

Were you disappointed by any of this? What, in particular turned you off?

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@davemark Still digesting. But two ARGHs:

1 No mention of environment and licensing re LLMs/AI.

2 Game Mode retaining the stupid Home indicator.

@davemark The iPhone on Mac thing looked pretty sweet.

@davemark It’s very early days, but I like that their approach to AI is using your personal context and integrating it across the platform, rather than making a synthetic friend to chat with.

@davemark Math Notes. AI/LLM search within Photos. Text formatting in Messages. Expanded tapbacks. Integration with ChatGPT-4o (yes, I said it, come at me, haters). RCS support! So much excellent stuff. It was a PACKED keynote. Will take time to really absorb.

@davemark all of the AI stuff was gross. The stuff before was ok. I should just skip the marketing stuff in the keynote and watch the dev stuff.

@davemark Maths Notes looks cool. Some of the macOS improvements are nice. Other than that it was mostly disappointment and AI slop

@davemark
Pros: Math notes, iPhone remote control thing (hopefully someone will port it to linux), part of the ai stuff (but not enough to get me on the beta since not for my device), better search in photos, new control center, theming stuff, and that’s kinda it I think?

Cons: all that ugly image generation bullshit, photos app becoming single-page, etc

Meh, whatever: like everything else?

@davemark The most exciting things for me were the iPhone mirroring (love that to death — if it works well …) and the math/script stuff on iPad though I’m not even sure I’ll actually get to use it 😛

Curious about the “AI” (whichever version of the acronym you want to go with) as to how well it would work and if it’s actually going to be as good as the demos. Plus, all the generated images were small — what happens if you want bigger images? Does it work or is the generation limited by size?

A lof of the early stuff barely moved the needle for me …

@f Flawless iPhone screen mirroring for Mac has been available for Mac thanks to a great app named Reflector. Been around for more than 15 years. I guess they’ll take a pretty big hit from this.

https://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector

@theevildonut Haven’t used it. Does it have keyboard support too? That’s what I really look forward to with the Apple implementation … I hate typing on the iPhone and none of the existing “use your Mac keyboard” solutions actually work most of the time …

@davemark topo maps!

@forktail Missed that. Was that part of the iOS section of the keynote?

@davemark I still need to look back though it, but better special videos workflows are neat (I wish they made a Nikon version of the Canon lens), photo cleanup looks great, better Siri and the app intents stuff seem like they have lots of promise. My favorite thing today is the new Passwords app.

I’m not sold on the Photos redesign (I liked the “day” view as the default) and I probably won’t use a lot of the AI generative stuff (I just doesn’t interest me).

@davemark iPhone mirroring looked nice. Hoping they will expand it to iPad-on-Mac mirroring and iPhone-on-iPad mirroring. Or basically universal mirroring built on top of AirPlay.

VisionOS updates looked pretty meagre. Not a good sign imo if this is all they have to show for a v2?

Disappointed in lack of iPadOS updates, but that was foretold.

They appear to be getting more serious and more consistent on gaming. Maybe they finally realised it’s a big revenue stream they can tap in to?