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WWDC 2015 Roundup

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

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.

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  1. 24/7 Live Global Radio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Live DJs broadcasting and hosting live radio streams you can listen to in 150 countries" -- So in other words, Apple re-invented shoutcast?

    1. Re:24/7 Live Global Radio by ArcadeMan · · Score: 2

      Yeah, but with APPS!

      I have no interest in being connected 24/7, I always own an older model of iPhone (free hand-me-down) which can never run the latest version of iOS, I don't want a smart watch let alone at the price Apple are asking, Metal on OS X is great news but I finally built myself a low-end Windows gaming PC and my music tastes are so far from mainstream that Apple music will probably be 99% useless (I'll check out the three free months to confirm that).

      This is the first time in a decade that I feel like I wasted time watching a Keynote.

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    2. Re:24/7 Live Global Radio by Noah+Haders · · Score: 2

      I thought they made a really compelling argument for Apple Radio. They are pushing on the idea of a distinction between radio and algorithmically-driven playlists. Of the role of a djay in curating music and placing it in a cultural context. On the very notion of pop music not as a pejorative term but as a dimension of our shared experience.

      Ok sure, I'll bite, at least for the trial period. $10/mo sounds expensive, tho.

    3. Re:24/7 Live Global Radio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't worry, I just wasted time reading your comment, so we're even.

      -- Tim Cook.

    4. Re:24/7 Live Global Radio by dj245 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I thought they made a really compelling argument for Apple Radio. They are pushing on the idea of a distinction between radio and algorithmically-driven playlists. Of the role of a djay in curating music and placing it in a cultural context. On the very notion of pop music not as a pejorative term but as a dimension of our shared experience.

      Ok sure, I'll bite, at least for the trial period. $10/mo sounds expensive, tho.

      $10/mo is cheap compared to SiriusXM. SiriusXM is a terrible company, their customer service is awful and their marketing machine makes the people selling fake viagra blush. Advertisements on some channels (Comedy in particular) are some of the sleaziest late-night ads I have ever heard. But I have struggled to find something better. The barrier to entry into online services is a bit high- every online service there is requires some tweaking, customizing, or "learning your tastes" period, whereas I can just turn on Sirius and go to a genre channel and get exactly what the channel says it is.

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    5. Re:24/7 Live Global Radio by goombah99 · · Score: 2

      Which doubles as a juicer as well. Just push the carrots through the fan and a revitalizing and nutritious drink is server right on your desktop. Turn that minty green nerd complexion into a sexy carotine tan. This is why all the apple execs look so tan.

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    6. Re:24/7 Live Global Radio by Shadowmist · · Score: 2

      And why do the macbook pro laptops come out every year but the mac mini every two years or so? Maybe Apple should outsource low-profit products like mac mini to outside OEM's.

      This was already tried in the days of the Mac clones. The clone makers had no interest in the low profit zone and instead tried to poach the high end customers instead. This was why the first thing Jobs did when he came back was to end the clone experiment.

    7. Re:24/7 Live Global Radio by MachineShedFred · · Score: 2

      Not only that, but the clone makers got to just build out hardware and ship it - they didn't have the R&D overhead to actually design the system in the first place, much less develop and maintain the operating system.

      Many of the clones were just Apple boards that were licensed and reconfigured. There were many PowerComputing boxes that were essentially a PowerMac 7300 for 20% off the price. I bought one instead of a "real" Apple back in the day. It's no wonder that Jobs put a stake through the heard of Mac cloners.

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  2. Complications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you knew anything about watches, you would know that "complication" is the horological term for an additional feature on a watch.

    1. Re:Complications by pollarda · · Score: 2

      He made a good point. It is still a terrible name. Don't complicate things.

    2. Re:Complications by macs4all · · Score: 2

      "So who cares what you call a phase of the moon indicator on a mechanical watch when deciding what it should be called on a smartwatch?"

      If you haven't noticed, Apple has been bending-over-backwards to get the horological community to consider the Apple Watch a "Real" watch. So far, they've actually had some success in that endeavor, which is quite surprising for a fanbase that should, by all rights-and-privileges, despise them. For a contrast, I'd really like to see what the Horologists think of the Samsung Watch(es).

      Using Horological Terms-of-Art such as "Crown" and "Complication" are consistent with that vocabulary and marketing goal.

  3. WWDC Means... by eepok · · Score: 5, Informative

    (Apple) Worldwide Developers Conference. I had to look it up for myself, so I thought I would post it.

    1. Re:WWDC Means... by CptJeanLuc · · Score: 2

      I did not know, and it is interesting how the brain works hard to fill in the blanks - and after reading only the title, there is really no context at all except there is some kind of 2015 event, so the brain does not have much to work with. The first association was "World War something something". The next one was something related to wrestling or martial arts. Then there is World Wildlife something. All options are immediately discarded because this is Slashdot. Then you start skimming the article and realize it is an Apple event, and you wonder why on earth is there not an A somewhere in the acronym - or why could they not have added an "Apple" in the article headline.

  4. "Complication" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:"Complication" by Jeremi · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

      I know a number of software developers who think along these same lines... ;)

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  5. I'm loving the future thing !!! by pollarda · · Score: 2

    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.

    1. Re:I'm loving the future thing !!! by ErikTheRed · · Score: 2

      See what next week's stock market will look like or.

      They actually joked about that in the presentation: "We're having a bit of trouble getting the stock ticker to work..."

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  6. Must be getting old. by jellomizer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

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    1. Re:Must be getting old. by BasilBrush · · Score: 5, Informative

      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

      Swift 2 CAN make apps for Linux. Apple's releasing the compiler and the standard libraries for Linux.

      And as its open source, someone can do the same for Windows. Given Microsoft's recent moves I wouldn't be surprised it Microsoft themselves port it.

      This is the big news for Slashdotters from this years WWDC.

    2. Re:Must be getting old. by Altus · · Score: 2

      Your comment on metal is total bs. Regular apps benefit because the underlying libraries (cores rapids and core animation) have been re written to use metal for better performance. Want to use it for your graphics or rendering engine? Then you will need to write code but your app will look just as native as always either way.

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    3. Re:Must be getting old. by Ravaldy · · Score: 2

      It's a good point. Maybe the changes are too incremental so nothing appears stunning. LOL!!

      Lets be honest. Other than new H/W support and GUI improvements what really changed in client OS tech in the last 10 years? I'd say very little.

    4. Re:Must be getting old. by Noah+Haders · · Score: 3, Informative

      here's a refinement: they finally fixed the shift key in ios9. by default, all the keyboard letters are lower case. when the shift key is engaged, all the keyboard letters are upper case. makes sense! this was sorely needed.

      My fear is that they keep adding complexity of different offscreen features and gestures. A big point for ios was that it didn't come with a user's manual because it was so simple and intuitive you didn't need one, but I feel like we're a stone's throw away from the dummy's guide for ios.

    5. Re:Must be getting old. by Yaztromo · · Score: 3, Informative

      I'd really like Apple to put Swift and Metal out there as open source - it will only increase the adoption rate. But past performance leads me to doubt...

      What, do you mean like with WebKit or CUPS?

      Sorry, but past performance shows you are wrong. FWIW, Apple never promised to make FaceTime Open Source; what they said was that they were going to openly publish the protocol. I'm rather cheesed that never happened as well, but they never promised to open their source code to FaceTime.

      On the other hand, Webkit is a huge OSS project, which is used by a variety of products and companies, and which has a lot of non-Apple/non-Webkit contributors. Indeed, if not for WebKit, there wouldn't be Google Chrome. CUPS is, of course, the print subsystem used by virtually every Linux distro.

      Those are the projects you need to judge Apple's OSS track record on.

      Yaz

  7. Does El Capitan Fix Major Problems? by HannethCom · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

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    1. Re:Does El Capitan Fix Major Problems? by tlhIngan · · Score: 2, Insightful

      -Can we have an OS that doesn't feel like it is from the early 90s?

      You can blame the "journalists" for that one.

      Basically the big reason why iOS made the change to flatness and why flatness is the new hotness is because some very big loudmouths started saying they hated the way everything looked the same as it did before.

      I believe the term bandied about was "stale". As in "iOS6 - the same old iOS that looks the same as it did since 2007. Stale, compared to the flashy updates to the UI Android makes, or the radical flatness of Windows phone". Ditto OS X.

      Of course, everyone who's ever worked in UI knows people like UIs to, well, not change - that some menu option will always be located in the same place, that things generally look the same. If there's a change, there had better be a damn good reason for the change.

      TL; DR: Some loudmouth bloggers, journalists, etc., hated the way things looked the same and called it stale and needed refreshing. Apple obliged and the "new UI" was adored by said loudmouths. And hated by everyone else didn't think it was stale, but functional.

    2. Re:Does El Capitan Fix Major Problems? by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 2, Interesting

      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?

      Not implying that those are bug-free OSes, I say typing on "ComputerName (23)".

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    3. Re:Does El Capitan Fix Major Problems? by jo_ham · · Score: 2

      The file dialog needs some love, or a setting that says "do not poll all disks" - I have an SSD as the boot drive, but I do have connected external and internal storage on spinning drives that is accessed infrequently.

      It's a pain in the ass when you open a file dialog box and the system pauses to wait for all the drives to spin up. I would prefer it to only spin the drive up if I click on a folder or volume that is on that drive.

    4. Re:Does El Capitan Fix Major Problems? by sribe · · Score: 2

      -Can you access the file dialog with out waiting forever with just the spinning disk showing?

      Sure, that's easy. Never use a network share. Not ever.

    5. Re:Does El Capitan Fix Major Problems? by Kenshin · · Score: 2

      Personally, I was thrilled to get rid of the glossy bullshit.

      A "lickable" OS was great to differentiate OS X and show off new technologies, but after a while it just looked tacky.

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  8. This just in by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 2

    Nothing happened at WWDC today.

    No, even less than that.

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  9. Apple Developer Program now all inclusive by Cutting_Crew · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive by _xeno_ · · Score: 4, Informative

      Wait, you guys (Apple developers) have to pay *licenses* to Apple to write programs and apps on their platforms?

      No, of course not, Xcode is a free download and you can write programs and apps for any iDevice for free. (Ignoring the cost of the Mac you need to buy in the first place, of course.)

      You just can't let other people use them without forking over $100/year. (At all for iOS or without making users disable scary security dialogs for OS X.)

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    2. Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 2

      Wait, you guys (Apple developers) have to pay *licenses* to Apple to write programs and apps on their platforms?

      Of course not. Apple makes Xcode available for free and you can use it to your heart's content. The paid license is for distributing apps through Apple's store. That's almost a requirement for iOS development (although you can install home-written software on your own stuff, I think), but not at all needed for Mac development. Lots of software is available via the Mac app store; lots more is available through developers' own websites.

      How are you guys OK with this?

      They wouldn't be. Fortunately, they don't have to be.

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    3. Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive by Cutting_Crew · · Score: 4, Informative

      uhh. the license provides you with pre-releases of the updates (like as of now) for mac osx and ios before the public release so your apps will work with any updates changes to any of the devices mentioned in the keynote. it also allows you to have access to all of the sessions if you werent able to make it to WWDC. If you are able to make it (you cant go unless you arent a developer, unless you get a special invite) you get one on one time with developers in the session labs to look over your code, help with bugs and in other technical help you might have. You also get the developer videos as well as access to the apple developer forums.

      You also get two technical support incidents with actual apple engineers that will go through your code, look at bugs with you, offer suggestions/help.feedback/ and help you fix your problem. Obviously this would be something worthwhile in case you've exhausted all avenues of technical support from the web or from other colleagues.

      It also includes the ability to sell your apps on the apple store. Sure, you could do it but how are you going to get the visibility you need to get your app noticed if it is not in the app store? How are you going to set up the payment system/networking/server maintenance/etc/etc so that you accept all major credit cards and get all that secure for people to buy your app? (assuming you have enough traffic to even warrant such as set up)

    4. Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive by irrational_design · · Score: 2

      Easy. "Me: Hey Boss, I'm expensing $100. Boss: Sure, whatever." Though, in reality I don't actually run things by my boss before expensing them. But, if I did, this is the response I would get.

    5. Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive by jeremyp · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Wait, you guys (Apple developers) have to pay *licenses* to Apple to write programs and apps on their platforms?

      No.

      You can get Xcode and all the SDKs for free either through the app store or by registering as a developer (free). You pay $100 for the ability to sign your compiled applications. On OS X this means people who download your compiled binaries won't get a warning that the code is unsigned.

      On iOS you can't put unsigned code on any device, not even your own, without the signing cert so to do serious development, you need to pay $100 (your code will run in the simulator without signing, but the simulator runs x86 binaries so it's not a proper test of the code's behaviour on a real device). This isn't really a big deal because to develop for iOS you must have a Mac and some sort of iOS device so you can probably afford $100.

      The $100 also gives you early access to all betas, so I could install El Cap now, if I wanted (I don't), however, over the last year or so, for me it's been most useful for access to Swift betas. The early versions of the Swift development environment were tragically unstable and produced code that was quite slow. You had to be on the bleeding edge to get all the bug fixes.

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    6. Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 5, Informative

      Back in 2008...

      Symbian code signing was like 200 bucks every six months(So 400 a year!) back in the Symbian days and you got little to no support.

      BlackBerry signing was a little complicated and had three tiers of API usage, each tier costing $100.

      Qualcomm had their own requirements that was something like 100 apps for 400 bucks for use on the Verizon game store.

      So in 2008 when Apple announced that it was going to only cost $100 bucks for unlimited apps and all public APIs with a storefront that you could make money on, it was a godsend.

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    7. Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive by santiago · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Additionally, you no longer need to be in the developer program to build and run code on an iOS device. The $99 / year membership is now only needed for selling things in the App Store. Anyone with an Apple account can download the Xcode 7 Beta and deploy a compiled app to their own physical iOS device.

    8. Re: Apple Developer Program now all inclusive by ljw1004 · · Score: 2

      What cognitive dissonance? There is none. Apple have lots of money. I'm comfortably well off. I don't mind paying this money to them to pursue my hobby.

      Other bits of my coding hobby cost a lit more, like paying for web hosting of my ad-free resources that I put up. And paying for equipment.

      The developer fee is pretty cheap. Last date night out with my wife cost more, once we factor in dinner and gabby sitter.

    9. Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive by djbckr · · Score: 2

      Think of it like the MSDN membership, which gives you a *lot* of free, advanced releases of Microsoft software, plus lots of educational tools. You pay for that too. In fact, I think you pay a lot more for that than Apple's fees.

  10. What about all the competing content sources? by ErichTheRed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

    1. Re:What about all the competing content sources? by Mantrid42 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, maybe we could consolidate them all into some sort of bundle. Perhaps with differently priced tiers; cheaper tiers get access to less content than more expensive tiers. Why, with this model, you could even have some less popular services subsidized by the purchase of more popular services.


      Thank God we've finally cut the cord!

    2. Re:What about all the competing content sources? by yeshuawatso · · Score: 3, Informative

      This made my day. What's funny is the lack of understanding that these companies and many stores offer more competition to consumers than ever before, and the average price is still ridiculously low. Even if you were to subscribe to every service and buy digital content from each company on a frequent basis, it would still be cheaper than shelling out $150-200/month for the same/similar level of content from cable providers. Hollywood is the only loser in this game as they're watching their home entertainment profits erode from foreign competition, indie stuff, and these companies just growing a pair and coming up with their own stuff.

  11. Re:Yes, but what will you need to run that crap? by Altus · · Score: 3, Informative

    They specifically said that iOS 9 will support all the same hardware as 8

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  12. Yet another proprietary API... by Misagon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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    1. Re:Yet another proprietary API... by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 2

      Is Vulkan ready yet?

      Because Metal has been shipping since iOS 8 and usable now.

      Microsoft has their own API but you're not crying foul about DirectX

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    2. Re:Yet another proprietary API... by Plumpaquatsch · · Score: 2

      Apple hasn't cared about games for a long time.

      Yeah, that's why they constantly bring out more games-related APIs - because they just don't care. And looking at how many iOS Apps use them, neither do the developers. [/sarcasm]

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  13. Re:Yes, but what will you need to run that crap? by BasilBrush · · Score: 4, Informative

    The OS X v10.11 Developer Beta supports the following Macs:

    iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)

    MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)

    MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)

    Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)

    MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)

    Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)

    Xserve (Early 2009)

  14. Future Shock by goombah99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  15. Re:Yes, but what will you need to run that crap? by Karlt1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Imagine that, a phone introduced in September 2011, still getting updates....

  16. Re:Apple Music - too expensive by ganjadude · · Score: 2

    moving the goalposts???

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  17. Re:Apple Music - too expensive by praxis · · Score: 2

    An alternative should be comparable. Ad-supported and subscription-based are pretty different types of services catering to different kinds of consumers. It was you who moved to goalposts by stating competitors that were quite different.

  18. Re:yeah less features, smaller storage. by brantondaveperson · · Score: 2

    extremely popular with the mainstream....And highly profitable.

    Wish everything I did was that lame.

  19. Re:Can/Should I Upgrade to iOS 9, or not? by tomxor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will the batteries last longer for somebody who mainly does phone calls and texts?

    ... Why do you own an iPhone.