Apple is done...
WWDC keynote... I am too lazy to change my default home page on Safari and boom, here goes: Apple's WWDC keynote. Why did I decide to spend time to watch it? I dunno, but here is my takeaway:
- iOS 11: it took sooooo loooong for Apple to introduce proper multitasking that I could not believe my eyes/ears when I saw their split-screen capability on... iPad (well, technically on iOS11 but is it avail. on your iPhone?). Copycat of Samsung's? NO! They blow me away with their features and gesture recognition... Apple my not be done yet... there.
- Files: ah, finally they have "files" access. Well well, you mean like on Android? NO! They nailed it (with the demo actually): all, *all*, your files: from iCloud (of course) to box, dropbox, Google drive, etc. Cool! Easy to predict that soon they will be close to "spotlight" on multi-devices... Cool, and cool!
- HomePod: okay when they started to show "music" I thought "yada yada yada" all over again... Then "HomePod": ah! well dude, Sonos did it a while back, then Amazon... so been there done that, nothing new here. Hey, what? what? What? You mean it has a "musicologist"?! What do you mean? Not sure though how deep they went with that concept but this remembers me the early days of Pandora with the music genome project which was very promising... but they kinda abandoned it. Not sure here but HomePod has all the bells and whistles (if not more) of Sonos, etc. as a smart speaker (or iSpaker?) but they did couple it with Siri and I - as an eternal optimist - I hope for the best: maybe finally a music player that will understand music (and not just NL - as in natural language - meta data) and my (MY) music taste!
- Notes: notes, the pen, image recognition/OCR ... Apple guys seem to have nailed it! Now I don't have to scan my signature and somehow figure out how to copy and paste it in PDF documents and hoping for the best. Now I can scan receipts and they will be well presented in my expense report... now I can easily draw in my notes.
I am sold :-) Apple is not done (that's my view... despite the fact that I find them fairly behind on AR: still gimmicky and a feel of the 2010s not the 2020s). I had Apple devices and must confess that... I will still have Apple devices!
App and XR Developer at Zoikal Ltd
7 年But it's all catch-up never-the-less - where were the gasps (not induced by groupies). The iMac Pro is stonking of course but it's a late nod to the Mac Pro's missing update and not actually innovative (Hopefully they'll make it available without the reflective monitor!). *If* their SLAM-based (or -like?) AR technology actually can determine and track planes and objects accurately in real time then that may indeed be a game-changer. The Homepod just provides another gadget to disable Siri on... sound quality could make a competitive edge - I wire my Echo via Bluetooth through an Arcam mini-DAC into an Arcam Solo Mini for even more superb sound (the DAC in the Echo is awful).