#wwdc25

[michaelthegeek]

WWDC25

[stripeboy0621]

“Apple Event”, seems to be.

[loislane-ana]

TECHNOLOGY, UKRAINE, ZELENSKYY, wwdc25, jumping drones, 1970 plymouth barracuda

[iwallpaper4k]

iOS 26 Wallpaper #iPhone #Wallpaper

[jon]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[forgottenfuturist]

We Don't Need a New Thing Every Year

Remember Steve Jobs' big product announcements? It seemed like every year he was on stage announcing some big new product you just had to have. But lately, Apple's product announcements have just been slightly-new iterations of existing things and an occasional weird, wild swing like the Vision Pro, a $3000 wearable face computer that's so dorky-looking it makes Google Glass look like high fashion. So what's wrong?

Nothing, actually.

Ok, the whole Apple Intelligence thing is definitely a dumpster fire. The last time Apple made a demo video for an entirely fictional product, it was that Knowledge Navigator thing back in 1987 and it was understood not to be real. They 100% deserve all the derision and criticism they've gotten for doing a fake demo for a product that didn't exist.

And like many people, I much prefer the live onstage announcements/demos to the current overproduced "events" that are so robotic they look like they were generated with AI. (Not Apple AI, I mean something that's actually advanced.)

But I'm not talking about either of those things. I'm talking about the expectation that Apple will introduce some big new game-changing device or technology at every annual event, or else it's a big failure, and if only Steve Jobs was here we'd have iPhones that could soothe all your worries and teleport you to Mars. This reasoning is wrong and silly, for reasons I will now explain.

Steve Jobs' second tenure at Apple overlapped with a period of rapid technological change in the industry. He first returned to the company in 1997. At the end of the 1990s, the Internet entered the mainstream. And during the first decade of the 2000s, advances in microprocessor, wireless communication, and capacitive touch technology (along with steep drops in the price of LCD displays) made devices like the iPod, the modern smartphone, the tablet, and the modern laptop computer possible.

Sadly, Steve died in 2011. But even if he'd lived, it wouldn't have changed the fact that most of the advancement we've seen in the tech industry since then has mainly been about making those existing devices better, smaller, and less-expensive. The only sorta-new device we've gotten is the smart watch, which a lot of people deride as a "phone bracelet" that mainly exists because the smartphone makers need something else to sell now that everybody has a smartphone.

Some people imagine that Apple's blunders (the "trash can" Mac Pro, Touch Bar MacBooks with bad keyboards, no ports, and thermal issues, etc) wouldn't have happened with Steve in charge. But his tenure wasn't problem-free, either. He oversaw some flops, like the Power Mac G4 Cube and MobileMe. The iMac G3 line became hopelessly convoluted and confusing before the G4 arrived. And there was the whole "antennagate" issue with the iPhone 4 where he publicly insisted that the device was only dropping calls because everyone but him was holding it wrong.

Yes, Apple is a much bigger and unwieldy company than they were 15 years ago. They're starting to fall into the trap that Steve talked about in an interview during his NeXT days in the 1990s, where the company is taken over by marketing and finance people who focus on short-term quarterly gains at the expense of making good products.

BUT . . .

When their overproduced, slick, soulless, and robotic annual commercial starts about an hour-and-a-half from the time I'm writing this, it will not be a failure if the biggest announcement is a new skin and naming scheme for their OSes. Sometimes it's better to announce a slight improvement of an existing thing rather than try to push out a brand new thing that isn't ready yet. Because that's how you get stuff like the Newton, or the Humane AI Pin.

Or Apple Intelligence.

[supersunsetnova]

iPadOS 26

[gl3nblu3z2]

iOS 26

Now that I’ve looked at the new betas for iOS 26 I would say as a long time android user I see this as how I’ve always seen Apple looking from the outside in, a very rich looking operating system especially with how they are going to do the Lock Screen I think that will be my favourite part about it just having that dynamic background that has depth to it.

Makes me feel like I’m actually holding an expensive device in my hand which I am but it makes the iPhone feel pretty fresh and I like that. It has been stale for the years I’ve seen it so I’m glad I got an iPhone in the past year where I get to enjoy these redesigns.

[netscapenavigator-official]

Apple really has Craig Federighi do the most random, overly-athletic bits during their keynotes. They’ll be like,

“And now back to Craig.”

*cut to Craig dead sprinting through a haunted forest as he’s being chased by an unknown, blood thirsty creature*

[meekgeek]

WWDC 2025 Thoughts

Liquid Glass: Shiny things always look great at the store, and this looks like it was designed to look sexy at the Apple Store. It's an obvious artifact of the Alan Dye UI design factory, with an obsession for how things look (in UI mockups) rather than how they work (in the real world).

A small positive of this design change is that buttons, toolbars and other clickable elements are more prominent than in the flat and border-less iOS 7 design language.

The superfluous animations and reflective glass effects seem ok, even if they’re slightly overdone at first glance. I’m more concerned about recent Apple’s tendency to make animations too slow, such that users have to sit through them, which is especially bad with commonly performed actions. Also, wouldn’t this consume too much resources and battery?

What’s terrible is the legibility. It really needs to be looked at and the opacity dialed back a few notches, especially for the whiter near-translucent elements, Control Center and notifications. Or at least give us a slider to control this aspect.

We’re already at a low bar when it comes to the HIG, so I don’t think Tim Apple has the capacity to fix this significantly before release. What I fear about this design change is that Apple customers would be shoved into at least a decade of low key illegibility and unproductiveness, with content behind bleeding through UI elements and affecting how quickly they can grok the interface.

After some time, users would be desensitized to its terrible-ness. Once this gets out, it would be nice to see objective studies that measure task completion rates across a broad demographic.

Finder: Nice feature updates, but for the love of god don’t mess with the Finder icon, which is literally iconic. The dark blue side of the smiley should be on the left. Fix it!

Spotlight: Finally given some attention. Nice to see new features, the App Library integrated, and wow, a clipboard manager! However, the caveat with this feature has always been that it has been a buggy and flaky mess (suddenly stops working, prolonged reindexing), so it remains to be seen how well this whole thing works in the real world, especially after Apple shoved more stuff in it.

System Settings: Still an unfixed train wreck since macOS Ventura in 2022. My condolences to Xcode, which got hit with the ugly stick too.

iPadOS Multitasking: This got tons of “finally”. Just adopt what’s great about the Mac, duh! But still, it took way too many years of multitasking stagnation, hand-wringing and media shaming to get here.

How well this works remains to be seen in actual use. At first glance, it does seem less restrictive than Stage Manager with freeform window sizing and positioning. An actual mouse pointer instead of a stupid round nubbin. Permitting background processing of long running tasks. I sure hope Apple did not forget to remove the single-tasking relic of allowing only a single app to play audio or video.

Came across some people who installed the first build mention that Stage Manager is also available on all iPads, not only recent iPad Pros. So much for Federighi pretending back in 2022 that this feature required a M1 and 8GB RAM, when it was merely Apple’s greed calling the shots, especially when this new multitasking can handle tons of windows open at the same time on all iPads that support iPadOS 26.

iOS Camera: Nice to see the camera app get a clean and more straightforward redesign, after years of new iPhone camera functionality cluttering up the UI. This is one area that lacks fundamental UI design thinking, so expect this to get copied by Android manufacturers pronto. Oh, and the app icon looks kinda… skeuomorphic?

Stability: Given the huge redesign across all platforms and early feedback, expect a shit show on the stability front, with rendering glitches taken up another notch, as if the current notch isn’t bad enough. Remember the iOS 7 glitches? Apple’s track record is not great.

Continuity: A little disappointed that there’s no big splash here to further tighten the ecosystem lock-in. Given the buzz about iPadOS 26 turning iPads into "real computers", it would be nice to see the iPhone-to-Mac Continuity features (mirroring, notifications, widgets) appear on iPad.

AirPods: These products are some of the best executed ones in the Cook era, and after featuring them prominently in the WWDC 2023 (Adaptive Audio) and WWDC 2024 (Voice Isolation, gestures) keynotes, it was disappointing that this was left out.

[dannielricciardo]

welcome back apple vista we've missed you

[iphoneislam]

ملخص مؤتمر أبل للمطورين WWDC 2025

انتهى منذ قليل مؤتمر آبل للمطورين WWDC 2025 المرتقب بشدة، خاصة بعد الحديث عن تغيير تسمية أنظمة التشغيل وعلى رأسها iOS 26 بدلاً من iOS 19 بالإضافة إلى التصميم الزجاجي الجديد، والشائعات التي أثيرت حول جعل سيري منافسة لنماذج الذكاء الاصطناعي المختلفة. وكشفت آبل أيضاً في هذا المؤتمر عن أحدث أنظمة التشغيل لديها لكافة الأجهزة، بالإضافة إلى التقنيات البرمجية المختلفة والذكاء الاصطناعي. تعرف على  أبرز ما…

[bufffurrylover]

Macos Tahoe is so ugly

[yoyoyoav]

זההההה פה ! #Apple #WWDC

[zoesdeathwish]

i can't believe we got apple aero in 2025