WWDC Keynote 2015

[Anubis]

I love how people criticize every Apple move in these conferences and they are all proven wrong 1 year later. Yet they never come back to admit anything, they just dissapear in internet limbo

Please give examples

 

[TheStu]

Watching the keynote now. This is the first time I've seen women talking about or demonstrating Apple products.

You mean on-stage right? I'm pretty sure you're right on that.

But if you mean at all, you must not get out much, there's plenty of women working at Apple Stores, where they'd be talking about and demonstrating Apple products.

 

[mmntech]

Apple is certainly late to the streaming party, and Apple Music isn't really doing anything special based on what I've read.

I think they are in a better position than their competitors though. Apple already has a strong existing relationship with record producers. So it won't have the same issues Spotify has had. Particularly concerning royalties.

 

[Eug]

I just went through one of the point-by-point coverage pages for yesterday's presentation. Man that was boring. The Apple Watch stuff was particularly uninteresting, but so was the One More Thing music streaming thing.

EDIT:

I just realized that it's the first time in a long time that I've waited until the next day before checking out the keynote coverage. I guess my expectations were low this time around, and WWDC 2015 met my expectations.

 

[TheStu]

I'm glad that they semi-Snow Leopard'ed iOS and OS X, that's been needed for a while.

 

[Eug]

Yes, I'm mainly interested in performance tweaks. I want my old 2011 iPad 2 to behave like it's not running on underfed hamsters (since iOS 8.3 is really slow on old hardware), and I want my i7 iMac sped up too.

Yes, my i7 iMac actually feels slow, mainly because it has a platter drive, and it sits there thinking about it when logging in and stuff. Mind you, that's on 10.9, not 10.10. I don't know how well 10.10 would do on that 2010 iMac.

 

[Subyman]

Eug, my ivy bridge MacBook Pro is feeling slow too. I think it might have to do with it having an HDD and not having a fresh install in 2-3 years.

 

[fr]

I think Iovine and Drake totally botched the Apple Music launch. They seemed very unprepared.

 

[Artdeco]

I wanted the Bill Hader version of the WWDC keynote. That was hilarious.

Everyone bitches about WWDC, it's not for normals. It appears to be for people that write software, but I may be wrong

 

[Rottie]

I'm very angry with Apple... no full split view support for iPad Air 1, you forced me to upgrade to Air 3 when it comes out this year! I am concerned about iOS 10 or 11 with new features that will not support Air 3! Keep on iPad upgrading each year.

 

[OrionMaster]

Please give examples

Ipad launch. Iphone 6 plus bendgate nonsense. iOS 7 ("it looks like shit"), i could go on

 

[Eug]

I'm very angry with Apple... no full split view support for iPad Air 1, you forced me to upgrade to Air 3 when it comes out this year! I am concerned about iOS 10 or 11 with new features that will not support Air 3! Keep on iPad upgrading each year.

Personally, I am not surprised at all.

A lot of us warn people against buying 1 GB iDevices at this stage of the game. Getting the iPad Air in 2013 made sense. Getting one in 2015 doesn't.

Ipad launch. Iphone 6 plus bendgate nonsense. iOS 7 ("it looks like shit"), i could go on

Some of us warned against buying the original iPad because of its very poor specs. I held out until the iPad 2, and am very, very glad I did. Apple often gimps its first version of a product. The original iPhone was the same.

 

[OrionMaster]

Doesn't matter. It still sold like hotcakes

 

[Eug]

Doesn't matter. It still sold like hotcakes

A product selling well and generating a lot of profit for Apple doesn't necessarily mean it's a smart buy for the individual customer. The original iPad was seriously crippled, and people who bought it discovered that the hard way in very short order. The iPad 2 dropped less than a year later with twice the CPU power, and more importantly, twice the RAM... because it needed it.

I bought my iPad Air 2 for myself in 2014. In early 2015 my wife asked for an iPad mini of some sort. I told her I'm not getting her an iPad mini until a 2 GB model comes out, likely in late 2015.

And the Retina MacBook was the same too. Ever since just about forever, I've been waiting for a 12" Retina MacBook. However, the first one is gimped, so I'll wait longer to replace my MBP.

 

[OrionMaster]

The customer satisfaction surveys tell a completely different story

 

[Essence_of_War]

You're making an orthogonal point to what Eug is saying.

 

[Printer Bandit]

people will bitch about almost anything.