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WWDC 2015 Roundup
Here's an overview of the main announcements and new products unveiled at WWDC today.
- The latest OS X will be named OS X El Capitan. Features include: Natural language searches and auto-arrange windows. You can make the cursor bigger by shaking the mouse and pin sites in Safari now. 1.4x faster than Yosemite. Available to developers today, public beta in July, out for free in the fall.
- Metal, the graphics API is coming to Mac. "Metal combines the compute power of OpenCL and the graphics power of OpenGL in a high-performance API that does both." Up to 40% greater rendering efficiency.
- iOS 9: New Siri UI. There’s an API for search. Siri and Spotlight are getting more integrated. Siri getting better at prediction with a far lower word error rate. You can make checklists, draw and sketch inside of Notes. Maps gets some love. New app called News "We think this offers the best mobile reading experience ever." Like Flipboard it pulls in news articles from your favorite sites. HomeKit now supports window shades, motion sensors, security systems, and remote access via iCloud. Public Beta for iOS 9.
- Apple Pay: All four major credit card companies and over 1 million locations supporting Apple Pay as of next month. Apple Pay reader developed by Square, for peer-to-peer transactions. Apple Pay coming to the UK next month support in 250,000 locations including the London transportation system. Passbook is being renamed "Wallet."
- iPad: Shortcuts for app-switching, split-screen multitasking and QuickType. Put two fingers down on the keyboard and it becomes a trackpad. Side by side apps. Picture in picture available on iPad Air and up, Mini 2 and up.
- CarPlay: Now works wirelessly and supports apps by the automaker.
- Swift 2,the latest version of Apple’s programing language . Swift will be open source.
- The App Store: Over 100 billion app downloads, and $30 billion paid to developers.
- Apple Watch: watchOS 2 with new watch faces. Developers can build their own "complications" (widgets with a terrible name that show updates and gauges on the watch face). A new feature called Time Travel lets you rotate the digital crown to zoom into the future and see what’s coming up. More new features: reply to email, bedside alarm clock, send scribbled messages in multiple colors. You can now play video on the watch. Developer beta of watchOS 2 available today, wide release in the fall for free.
- Apple Music: “The next chapter in music. It will change the way you experience music forever,” says Cook. Live DJs broadcasting and hosting live radio streams you can listen to in 150 countries. Handpicked suggestions. 24/7 live global radio. Beats Connect lets unsigned artists connect with fans. Beats Music has all of iTunes’ music, to buy or stream. With curated recommendations. Launching June 30th in 100 countries with Android this fall, with Windows and Android versions. First three months free, $9.99 a month or $14.99 a month for family plan for up to six.
Did anyone else just get an erection?
"Live DJs broadcasting and hosting live radio streams you can listen to in 150 countries" -- So in other words, Apple re-invented shoutcast?
So it's either $10 per person if you're single with only one pay check or $2.50 to $7.50 per person if you're a family with possibly two incomes.
Anyway it's more expensive than either Netflix or Crunchyroll, so I'll pass.
If you knew anything about watches, you would know that "complication" is the horological term for an additional feature on a watch.
(Apple) Worldwide Developers Conference. I had to look it up for myself, so I thought I would post it.
The phrase "complication" is borrowed from watch horology, meaning some function that's unrelated to the basic three functions of the watch, telling the hour, minute, and second. So things like stopwatches, day/date/month displays, moon phase displays, mainspring reserve power, spelling out the time with a series of chimes, that kind of thing. For a mechanical watch, you're cramming in more and more functions into an increasingly small case, so more is more difficult and considered by some to be more admirable.
If you want to see the ultimate example of pre-computer watch design, the Graves Supercomplication is worth reading up on, with 22 functions on both the front and back of the watch.
I really love how we'll be able to turn the dial and see the future. This will be especially powerful when combined with the News app. See what next week's stock market will look like or who will win the next election. Of course, if we know the future it will potentially change the future. This means that the "futures" markets will change depending on the present which depends on the future depending on the present depending on the future which .... Oh, never mind.
Latest OS X: Expected, while interesting features nothing huge.
Metal: New Graphic engine... Again! means developers will need to rewrite their apps so they look right with the OS.
iOS 9: Kinda neat. When I get it I will update and play with it.
Apple Pay: Nothing new to me.
iPAD: Sounds like stuff android had for a while.
Car Play: So I have to buy a new car to get this? Sorry I like a car that is good on fuel, dependable, and affordable, if it comes with Car Play great if not no big deal.
Swift 2: Get me a version where I can make apps in Windows or Linux too... Otherwise OK that is fine, but staying to one platform development isn't my thing.
Apple Watch: I still can't find a good reason to get one.
Apple Music: I am looking for ways to reduce my monthly fees. Being that this cost more than Netflix or Hulu and you get less data traffic, it doesn't make sense.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Mavericks and Yosemite introduced a number of really bad bugs and annoyances. Has this fixed some of them?
-Can you access the file dialog with out waiting forever with just the spinning disk showing?
-Does the filesystem update when things like screenshots are taken with out having to force a reload of the filesystem cache?
-Can you lock the dock to a certain position on one screen?
-Can we have it so the HDMI Port stops cutting out?
-Can the screen properly update without black boxes sometimes covering content / UI elements?
-Can we have an OS that doesn't feel like it is from the early 90s?
-Can we have more graphical setup options instead of having to do things through the command prompt?
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
That's all well and good, but the real question whenever Apple announces "new features" is "how expensive will the new iDevice you'll need to buy to use it be?"
Which phones are Apple dropping with iOS 9? The 4S goes without saying. Are they dropping the 5 as well or does the newer 5C mean they'll keep supporting that for a bit? How many older iPads won't be getting that multitasking thing?
How many older Macs won't be getting El Capitan? I'm assuming Metal is going to be limited to the latest Macs since it sounds like it's very hardware specific which probably means "only AMD Macs."
Nothing happened at WWDC today.
No, even less than that.
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Can someone translate "1.4x faster?" Is that 240% the speed of Yosemite, or is that 140% the speed of Yosemite?
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Apple Pay: All four major credit card companies and over 1 million locations supporting Apple Pay as of next month.
And we are supposed to get a hard-on here ? C'mon. This is disgusting.
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Looks like paid radio services will have some tough time ahead. Specially for families, the Apple Music will be actually cheaper than Pandora premium. Also, with complete iTune catalog on it, it will be have vastly more content than competitors. And now it works across range of devices, so yet another benefit of using Pandora like services is going away. Not sure what is happening, but this is very very frightening with Apple holding all your eggs.
The apple developer program is now all in one instead of paying a separate license or Mac OSX, iOS and Safari. This is good news and makes sense. It was kinda pointless to have a separate license for all these common features between devices/hardware.
Far be it from me to throw cold water on an idea, but I do have an observation. One of the byproducts of the mobile/social/web 3.0/content dotcom boom is the sheer number of different content providers that offer a library of movies, music and TV shows. Amazon offers Prime Instant Video plus for-purchase titles, Google has the Play Store, Netflix offers streaming, Hulu offers streaming, Spotify offers streaming, Microsoft is offering content, and now Apple offers a mix of both like Amazon does. (Fun fact, you pay a couple more dollars in Apple tax for the same content if you use iTunes rather than Amazon to buy some movies.)
The question is -- when will the Great Consolidation happen? Now that everyone is opting to license their content rather than pay for physical media, will there come a day when all the competing App Stores, Music Stores and Movie Streaming Services start merging, and what will happen to the content when that happens? It just seems to me that having Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Apple, and all the TV providers maintaining their own separate content libraries can't be sustainable. Nor will people want to purchase subscriptions from all of them, or the Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Google TV, etc etc etc
The names comes from horology. Complications are the fancy stuff you get on watches... chronometer, date, moon phase. The more there are the more expensive the watch, but for real watches it actually involves top-notch engineering, not flashing a chip.
Anybody else think that Apple should ditch Metal in favour of Vulkan? If they want the latest games ported to Mac then they should use an open API that is used on other platforms.
But I am starting to think that maybe ports is not Apple's game... Maybe they want there to be almost only Apple-specific titles on Mac so that people wouldn't compare performance on Mac to that on PC or consoles. Now that they are known mostly for laptops and their desktop machines are also having laptop-grade internals then they are not going to be able to compete on graphics performance anyway.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
Didn't see this in my quick scan of the comments here:
Boooooooorrrrrrriiiiiiinnnnnngggggg
AND I used to pretty much exclusively use Apple products...
Faster boot up? Faster application launches? Faster searching? What, exactly, is faster?
Never let a lack of data get in the way of a good rant.
I've experienced literally none of those things on any of the Macs or iOS devices that I come in contact with daily. Are you certain that those aren't particular to your own system?
I've run across most of those issues at one time or another on Mavericks, on both my work macair and my wife's powerbook (the display port drop-outs are particularly annoying). It isn't helpful to simply dismiss issues people raise ... frankly, it makes you sound like a systemd developer. Better for all of us if these issues are raised and fixed (even if the corporate master in question will never officially admit such issues exist). Then we all win.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
I've been beta testing this feature and you are right about it being useful with the News and Stockmarket app. It seems buggy though because I can get it to turn past the 2016 NASA news release about an unseen asteroid suddenly passing by the moon heading for earth. The only apps that continues further into the future is the weather app which reports blackout skies, and 2700K surface temperatures with rains of ash and nitric acid. And The health app shows my pulse rapidly rising then flat lining about that time. Facebook shows I was unfriended by the whole world and all the you tubes are of a fireball in the sky, but nothing past that date.
The watch actually allows you to travel into the future as well. It's a beta version so the rate of travel is really slow right now, but you can feel youself travel about 1/sec into the future every 1/sec if you watch mickey mouse's hands. If you put it in developer mode there's also a timetravel stop watch. It freezes the whole world except you. I was using it to rob a bank one day and I dropped it. So I traveled back in time to post this on slashdot to warn everyone about this.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
As someone once said "Lame."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I understand that Siri only gets paid 76.5% of what Clippy gets. That hardly seems fair.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I was surprised to hear about the human curated playlists. (They're not talking swarm intelligence, but an editorial office at Apple.)
They will have 30 million songs. Musical tastes are more diverse than ever. To me, it seems pretty much infeasible to have a sufficient number of playlists created by Apple's editorial staff. Is this a marketing gimmick? It seems that Spotify's approach to playlists (a "music intelligence platform" called Echo Nest) seems much better suited to handle a collection consisting of 10+ millions tracks.
Someone on the design team has obviously watched people try to find the pointer.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
iPhone 5S - Does it have the resources to upgrade to IOS9? Will it run faster or slower? Will the batteries last longer for somebody who mainly does phone calls and texts?
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"First three months free, $9.99 a month or $14.99 a month for family plan for up to six."
Bwahaahaha.... they think people are going to pay for music!
Its called Pirate Bay.
Apart from too many Androids in this sentence, what kind of fool would invest money into a music library to be used "with Windows and Android versions" in an Apple-controlled proprietary format with DRM? After a few years, the future of the Windows and Android versions will quite slowly look more and more dire, first by rumors, then update speed and quality, with an increasing feature gap, with long-standing compatibility problems and so on and so on. Not wanting to lose your investment in music, you'll be coaxed, threatened and finally forced into buying Apple devices for continued "ownership" of music you "bought".
Certainly not as sexy as the Swift announcements, but has anyone else noticed that the Xcode 7 developer beta release notes state that 7 will add generics to Objective-C? Looks like a major language update.
Music will support Android and Windoze... hats off to Apple for this...
Swift for Linux piques my interest...
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Just more layers of busy-tech complexity added to life.
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Apple's missed opportunity.
1) Swift open source is kind of big. 2) Re Apple Watch 'complications', complications is the traditional term for the inner working of a pocket watch.
iOS 9: New Siri UI. There’s an API for search. Siri and Spotlight are getting more integrated. Siri getting better at prediction with a far lower word error rate.
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"Besides, uBlock is using 33MB of RAM" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Inefficient: Hosts @ 6mb here only w/ CURRENT data vs. threats + ads (& things a bloated browser addon can't do by a longshot & you RAN FROM IT http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... )
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"1) Will it run on my iPad (and no, I'm not jailbreaking)?" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Sure hosts can: jailbreak it (like on ANDROID via ADB use).
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"2) Can I use it to block annoying "toolbars" that sites cover 20% of their content with (e.g. Wikia)?" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Sure - don't load toolbars dumbass (or use hosts or firewalls to block their content they pull in) OR DON'T USE SHITHOLES LIKE 'EM (I don't - they're blocked due to what you said).
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"3) Can it be used to defeat modal boxes" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Stopping javascript does it - using what you already HAVE natively (for more speed too) - only FOOLS run that crapscript indiscriminately everywhere! Opera allows it via "by site" preferences in 12.17 64-bit for instance.
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"4) How about the auto-playing video" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Easy - block a source if not the same site (ads served on the same site don't pay, admen don't trust webmasters "alleged" hitcounts & I don't blame 'em) or use better sites.
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"I can even use it to block the stupid "videos" feature on the Slashdot" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Again - Stall javascript (or cut video sources via hosts).
APK
P.S.=> You fail - You do STUPID THINGS "bolting on 'MOAR'" increasing overheads & doing LESS off a slower mode of ops vs. using what you NATIVELY HAVE THAT'S MORE EFFICIENT & DOES MORE TOO...apk
"Besides, uBlock is using 33MB of RAM" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Inefficient: Hosts @ 6mb here only w/ CURRENT data vs. threats + ads (& things a bloated browser addon can't do by a longshot & you RAN FROM IT http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... )
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"1) Will it run on my iPad (and no, I'm not jailbreaking)?" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Sure hosts can: jailbreak it (like on ANDROID via ADB use).
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"2) Can I use it to block annoying "toolbars" that sites cover 20% of their content with (e.g. Wikia)?" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Sure - don't load toolbars dumbass (or use hosts or firewalls to block their content they pull in) OR DON'T USE SHITHOLES LIKE 'EM (I don't - they're blocked due to what you said).
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"3) Can it be used to defeat modal boxes" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Stopping javascript does it - using what you already HAVE natively (for more speed too) - only FOOLS run that crapscript indiscriminately everywhere! Opera allows it via "by site" preferences in 12.17 64-bit for instance.
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"4) How about the auto-playing video" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Easy - block a source if not the same site (ads served on the same site don't pay, admen don't trust webmasters "alleged" hitcounts & I don't blame 'em) or use better sites.
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"I can even use it to block the stupid "videos" feature on the Slashdot" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Again - Stall javascript (or cut video sources via hosts).
APK
P.S.=> You fail - You do STUPID THINGS "bolting on 'MOAR'" increasing overheads & doing LESS off a slower mode of ops vs. using what you NATIVELY HAVE THAT'S MORE EFFICIENT & DOES MORE TOO...apk
"Besides, uBlock is using 33MB of RAM" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Inefficient: Hosts @ 6mb here only w/ CURRENT data vs. threats + ads (& things a bloated browser addon can't do by a longshot & you RAN FROM IT http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... )
APK
P.S.=> You fail - You do STUPID THINGS "bolting on 'MOAR'" increasing overheads & doing LESS off a slower mode of ops vs. using what you NATIVELY HAVE THAT'S MORE EFFICIENT & DOES MORE TOO...apk
"uBlock is using 33MB of RAM" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Inefficient: Hosts @ 6mb only w/ CURRENT data vs. threats + ads (& things a bloated browser addon can't do by a longshot & you RAN FROM IT http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... )
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"my question is, which blocks more ads? Answer: uBlock/Adblock" by andymadigan (792996) on Sunday June 14, 2015 @12:04AM (#49907001)
WRONG - "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" is PAID OFF to NOT block all ads by default, dumbo -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
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ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
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"your system blocks fewer ads" by andymadigan (792996) on Sunday June 14, 2015 @12:04AM (#49907001)
See above & a 'shitty idea' does MORE BY FAR with less & you RAN from it bitch - see 1st link above!
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"I'm more than happy to spend an extra 1% of my computer's power to block far more ads than your shitty idea does." by andymadigan (792996) on Sunday June 14, 2015 @12:04AM (#49907001)
Ah, so you're 'happy' being illogical & stupid? LOL, ok!
AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...
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ClarityRay defeats it - it can't do that to hosts (since clarityray dumps what browser addons you use so addons are EASILY DETECTED via native browser methods & YOU'RE BLOCKED STUPID).
AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
APK
P.S.=> You've GOT to be the MOST STUPIDLY illogical moron I've *ever* met on /. ...
... apk
UBlock consume 63++ MB http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SPECIFICALLY IN THIS SCREENSHOT THERE -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
* Man, you're a DAMNED LIAR!
APK'
P.S.=> I personally have a 4 million line hosts file (took me 15++ yrs as an experiment for HOW FAR I CAN PUSH IT) - however:
Folks using my program will only have a 3-6mb one with CURRENT DATA ONLY in it!
(They can 'build it up' IF they like though, as I have but NOT TO THAT EXTENT, if they're smart... I am only doing mine as an experiment LONG TERM... you can & should ''purge" it once in a bit to be more accurate - my app provides means for it too via pings OR remove lists from my sources for hosts data).
In the end Andy?
YOU will ALWAYS LOSE to me!
Heck:
YOUR LIES SHOWN ABOVE do the job for me, along with your MASSIVE FUCKUPS LIST vs. myself, SHOWN HERE -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... do the rest... apkSPECIFICALLY IN THIS SCREENSHOT
UBlock consume 63++ MB http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SPECIFICALLY IN THIS SCREENSHOT THERE -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
* Man, you're a DAMNED LIAR!
APK'
P.S.=> I personally have a 4 million line hosts file (took me 15++ yrs as an experiment for HOW FAR I CAN PUSH IT) - however:
Folks using my program will only have a 3-6mb one with CURRENT DATA ONLY in it!
(They can 'build it up' IF they like though, as I have but NOT TO THAT EXTENT, if they're smart... I am only doing mine as an experiment LONG TERM... you can & should ''purge" it once in a bit to be more accurate - my app provides means for it too via pings OR remove lists from my sources for hosts data).
In the end Andy?
YOU will ALWAYS LOSE to me!
Heck:
YOUR LIES SHOWN ABOVE do the job for me, along with your MASSIVE FUCKUPS LIST vs. myself, SHOWN HERE -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... do the rest... apk