I missed most of the WWDC 2015 Keynote this year. While I kept the ArsTechnica live blog open (because it’s one of the best with the least “personality”), I had fish to fry and couldn’t really pay attention. I’m not an iOS developer anyway, so I always wait to see what the experts think.
This year, from what I can tell, the announcements were pretty well received. Here’s the list of tweets that I found most interesting.
Apple now details the requirements for third party bands. I doubt officially licensed bands will be all that much cheaper, given this:
Apple Watch lugs will be available soon through the Made for Apple Watch program.
The license terms seem relatively unencumbered though (minus the usual boilerplate about sublicensing).
I don’t wear a watch and don’t want to. If I was ignorant enough, I’d consider the Apple Watch just another Apple product launch. It would sell out and be very popular and all of my nerd friends would get it on launch day. I don’t think it’s going to be typical. I think it’s going to be huge.1
I’ve never seen so many non-tech people so excited about a piece of electronics.
My first doofus email to a CEO:
Sad times are coming
What a great overview of someone that made an indelible mark on computer interfaces and user expectations.
Kare was subsequently offered a fixed-length, part-time job designing fonts and icons for the Apple Macintosh; her business card read “HI Macintosh artist.” She’d never worked on computer graphics before Apple, but quickly made strides to adjust to her new medium. “I remember I didn’t really know anything about digital typography, but I got as many books on it as I could,” she recalls.
The rumor mill says that iOS7.1 fixes the daily crasing on iOS7. That’s good news because the big change with iOS7 was the perception of Apple’s threshold for quality. A common refrain from “regular people” I know has been that Apple’s software is pretty poor quality.1 Many of them have the opinion that iOS7 is more unstable and confusing than Windows. Even I consider iOS7 to be a great source of jokes about software crashing.
From Fraser Spiers:
All of these are available on iOS now. That is - more or less - the entire Google services suite fully accessible on iOS. There’s seemingly nothing that Google is obviously keeping back for Android exclusivity. That’s not what Android is about for Google.
This is a concise summary of the current state of our new imagined holy war. I do think Fraser misses one persistent conflict: privacy.
Apple finally alleviated the supply constraints on wheelbarrows for moving their cash. The iPad Mini is available now.
From MacRumors:
According to the customer who noticed the missing titles, Disney elected to remove the content from the iTunes Store, preventing customers who have purchased the movies/TV shows from re-downloading the content via iTunes in the Cloud, which allows users access to previously purchased content.
I’m just going to leave this link here with the comment that NoteBurner still works on Mavericks.
By way of Michael Tsai
Like many, I was impressed with how quickly the iOS user base upgraded to iOS7. Surely it’s a marvel of deployment and user education to have so many non-technical users upgrade to a new operating system so quickly. But there’s a secret cost that nerds tend to ignore and it’s the trust and comfort many mainstream users had for their Apple devices.
While I anxiously awaited the arrival of the new operating system, millions of other users walked around oblivious to their flat and washed out future.
