Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by jedberg on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:30PM
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> No More iTunes
For those of you excited by this, don’t be. All they did was split one app into four. It still works the same way.
Yes you can see your device in the finder. But you can’t do anything with it other than upgrade the OS and back it up.
Want to put a movie on your iPhone? You’d think you could just drag it from finder. But no, you have to load the AppleTV app, which is just the movies and tv part of iTunes, import it, and then go back to finder to hit sync.
Honestly, the experience was better with iTunes, which was awful.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by GeekyBear on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:23PM
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If you intend to stick with the first party software, then you seem to have gotten some bad information on what synch settings can be controlled from the Finder.
You wouldn't need to open the TV app to control or trigger synch for video content.
Catalina handles both from the sidebar of the Finder.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by GeekyBear on Monday June 17, 2019 @03:41PM
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Ahhh… You are talking about adding new content to your library and not about synching content between your library and a device.
However, the requirement that you add content to your library before you can synch it to your devices is not a change from the way things worked in iTunes at all.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by jedberg on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:45PM
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I know it’s not a change. That’s my complaint. I would expect to be able to drag files from my hard drive to the device. The fact that I can’t makes the experience worse than iTunes.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by eugeniub on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:33PM
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Who still uses the stock iOS app to watch videos? There are a thousand other ways to put video files on your iPhone or iPad and tons of great apps like VLC for iOS, Infuse, etc. that offer many ways of adding video files. I don't fault Apple for not adding new features to the legacy iTunes-iOS media sync system.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by GeekyBear on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:52PM
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VLC has really offered outstanding support for transferring content onto the device.
SMB, FTP, Plex servers, all the well known cloud services, even a built in web server so you can connect any web browser to your device's IP address and drag and drop files onto the device.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by jedberg on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:01PM
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VLC is great and I use it personally. But it's too complicated for my kids and doesn't integrate with the parental control system. And also, millions of people use Apple's apps to consume content and my objection was that they made that process worse.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by cmsj on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:46PM
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I think a better question would have been "who uses a computer to sync iTunes videos to an iOS device?", but even that falls down when you start factoring in Internet caps and suchlike.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by jedberg on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:00PM
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An app like VLC for iOs isn't appropriate for my two year old because it's too complicated and doesn't follow all the parental controls, but that's really not the point anyway. The point is that millions of people still use Apple's apps to watch video, and they made that process worse.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by tomglynch on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:55AM
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I dislike how much focus Apple and other companies put on Memoji's, Emoji's, Bitmoji's, Animoji's and all other shitty, cartoon representations of their users.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by azhenley on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:13PM
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I've never thought of this, but wow it seems so true. Whenever a new batch of emojis come out, my friends start sending them which entices me to go update immediately.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by stcredzero on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:44PM
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Perhaps they're onto something here. Clickbait in the service of security? The black hats are already using the darker side of mass Internet behavior. "Secure your computer with this one weird trick!"
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by oarsinsync on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:15PM
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This is the only way I'm able to convince my family to upgrade sooner rather than later. Nothing quite like square-box-triggered FOMO to force an upgrade.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by TimTheTinker on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:23PM
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Excellent insight.
One wonders - how long can updated emojis continue to motivate people to upgrade? Diminishing returns will have to kick in at some point. But there is still more room for innovation in the Messages app.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by Angostura on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:00PM
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I suspect you and I are not the target demographics. My daughter was extremely chuffed that she will be able to design animojis now on her old iPhone SE.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by dwaite on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:44PM
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My understanding is they had requirements that the screen could be moved from environments and rotated while mounted, so they came up with a custom quick-release magnetic + mechanical connector.
I'd think normal VESA mount holes would have worked fine as an option, especially since there has to be suitable depth with the power socket. However, I'd assume lack of extra holes to be an apple design decision sooner than assume a money grab.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by vardhanagwal on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:40AM
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This article will give you a quick rundown of the major releases in this year’s WWDC conference, and help you get a sense of what happened — even if you didn’t have the time to watch the keynote.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by umeshunni on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:26PM
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Thanks for the article. I really like how it was categorized and had a ToC so that I could read only the sections I am interested in (iPadOS and MacOS in my case).
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by ekianjo on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:22PM
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> The Apple Watch has become a staple for many, allowing them to be more active throughout the day, and saving many from life-threatening situations throughout the years of its existence
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by steveklabnik on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:46PM
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I recently got an apple watch, it has absolutely become an essential part of my life. I didn't expect it to. The activity thing rings absolutely true. I actually went to the gym this morning for the first time in years, and the watch is actually a major part of that.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by wil421 on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:29PM
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I will try to do some additional walking if my watch tells me I’m close to meeting my goal. I should still exercise more but a small improvement is good as long as I have a sedentary desk job.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by ekianjo on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:35PM
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How is that "allowing them to be more active throughout the day" ? You were already in a position to be more active if you wanted to. It's not like the watch increased your productivity 10 fold and suddenly freed up an additional 3 hours of your day to go exercise. The wording is questionable.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by crooked-v on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:39PM
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There are various anecdotes around about Apple Watches exposing undiagnosed heart conditions, though I don't know of any available statistics on the subject.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by skygazer on Monday June 17, 2019 @03:54PM
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I recently gave my two year old, series 2 Apple Watch to an Apple-Skeptical friend that begrudgingly owned an iPhone, though still exclusively uses Google services over built-in apps. After just a week, she raved about how she loved the watch and that it motivated her to exercise with greater regularity. She abandoned her Garmin watch. For some people, it apparently scratches an itch.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by zamalek on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:35PM
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The watches have suggested people go to hospital due to arrhythmia, with life-saving results more than once. The new Apple heart beat sensor supposedly allows this (so you won't find the same functionality on Fitbit etc.).
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by zamalek on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:22PM
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Yeah, Apple aren't known for being entirely honest about the scope of their innovations. Suffice the say, that's Apple parlance for "a handful of times the past year."
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by brlewis on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:03AM
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It's likely they saved lives with previous models too. I work at Fitbit (don't speak for Fitbit) and we often see stories of people who say their Fitbit saved their life because it helped them notice some heart condition or other.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by saagarjha on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:46PM
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No, but it restates a lot of the marketing that Apple uses. Note that Apple Watch has saved lives through its detection of heart conditions and Emergency SOS.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by davnicwil on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:16PM
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I missed 'Sidecar' - the thing that'll let you use an ipad as a second screen for a mac.
But I don't understand if it's true second screen, i.e. a native replacement for what the Duet app does, or more like a second screen 'portal' for specific apps that implement that functionality.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by AgentME on Monday June 17, 2019 @02:28PM
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The ipad shows up just like another monitor to the Mac. You can move your mouse into it and drag windows to and from it. The ipad seems to just be a dumb display (and touch input) when connected. I believe it requires a USB-C connection.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by davnicwil on Monday June 17, 2019 @03:10PM
(#20206334)
Ah, that's great! I use Duet (paid app) for this at the moment but it's disappointingly flaky - it seems to only work sometimes and when it does, you'd better not touch anything unless it resets and stops working again. Worth the setup effort for longer sessions but hardly practical for shorter ones on the go (which let's face it, is the main usecase). Having this native so it 'just works' out the box would be amazing.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by ChristianGeek on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:56PM
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So many things missing from this (multi-user support in tvOS, Apple Arcade, new text editing features and mouse support in iPadOS , etc.) and what’s there reads like a PR piece.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by GeekyBear on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:41PM
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Also new, updating Apple TV and HomePod to support multiple users.
I was kind of expecting to see multiuser support be made available for home iPad users in addition to the existing support for schools, but that still hasn't happened.
Another nice accessibility feature was support for a new vocal user interface on iOS and Mac.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by mikecsh on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:30PM
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I’ve never understood why people ever feel the need to point out whether a pun is intended or not. I never see (rhyme intended) for example, so why puns? To me it tends to disrupt the flow of the prose
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by stcredzero on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:45PM
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It really means, "I didn't originally intend the pun, but now I'm running with it and proudly announcing it to the world." That phrase would be even more disruptive.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by libria on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:00PM
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It's joke explaining to a broader audience. Tell a joke that's too subtle, only a few find it funny. Call attention to it and more will understand, but those who found it funny as subtle, no longer will.
I think it's bad style. You don't lose anything by people missing your joke. But you risk being viewed as vain and unfunny by cueing people to laugh whenever you think you're clever.
Re:What Went Down at WWDC 2019
by noonespecial on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:15PM
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I actually had to read it twice to get the meaning. I read "use the best GPU on the planet (not by Nvidia)" first as "well we couldn't get Nvidia so we used the next best thing we could find that wasn't"
For those of you excited by this, don’t be. All they did was split one app into four. It still works the same way.
Yes you can see your device in the finder. But you can’t do anything with it other than upgrade the OS and back it up.
Want to put a movie on your iPhone? You’d think you could just drag it from finder. But no, you have to load the AppleTV app, which is just the movies and tv part of iTunes, import it, and then go back to finder to hit sync.
Honestly, the experience was better with iTunes, which was awful.
You wouldn't need to open the TV app to control or trigger synch for video content.
Catalina handles both from the sidebar of the Finder.
Here is a link to the correct information on how synch works in the Finder of Mac OS Catalina.
https://www.imore.com/how-sync-your-iphone-and-ipad-your-mac...
However, the requirement that you add content to your library before you can synch it to your devices is not a change from the way things worked in iTunes at all.
Literally everybody I know, including myself.
SMB, FTP, Plex servers, all the well known cloud services, even a built in web server so you can connect any web browser to your device's IP address and drag and drop files onto the device.
One wonders - how long can updated emojis continue to motivate people to upgrade? Diminishing returns will have to kick in at some point. But there is still more room for innovation in the Messages app.
Non-auto-updating software is the problem
No: you have to pay $200 (!) for a VESA mount adapter to use your existing VESA mount.
I'd think normal VESA mount holes would have worked fine as an option, especially since there has to be suitable depth with the power socket. However, I'd assume lack of extra holes to be an apple design decision sooner than assume a money grab.
Is this a PR piece?
Here is a good place to start: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/03/apple-heart-s...
Pity you require an iPhone to even turn them on.
But I don't understand if it's true second screen, i.e. a native replacement for what the Duet app does, or more like a second screen 'portal' for specific apps that implement that functionality.
I was kind of expecting to see multiuser support be made available for home iPad users in addition to the existing support for schools, but that still hasn't happened.
Another nice accessibility feature was support for a new vocal user interface on iOS and Mac.
I think it's bad style. You don't lose anything by people missing your joke. But you risk being viewed as vain and unfunny by cueing people to laugh whenever you think you're clever.
Note that iPod Touch exists.
Gave me a chuckle at least.