It has just been confirmed. Macs are moving to Apple's ARM chips.<p>Edit 1: They are pushing the performance/Watt angle, as well as all their SoC features already known on other devices. They also say they will bring a "family of SoCs" to Mac.<p>Edit 2: All Apple apps will ship with native code at launch, including Final Cut and Logic Pro. MS and Adobe apps will also get native versions. There are going to be new "Universal (2)" binaries shipping with both x64 and ARM code.<p>Edit 3: Office, Lightroom, and Photoshop were shown working as expected.<p>Edit 4: It sounded like they just said "A12Z" in a Mac. I'm not entirely sure I got that right.<p>Edit 5: Rosetta 2 is announced. It's a translation layer from x64 to ARM. Apparently it does AOT translation, as well as JITting.<p>Edit 6: Working virtualization confirmed, in particular Docker.<p>Edit 7: They are showing Maya running in Rosetta. It seems smooth. Some Tomb Raider game is also running fine translated.<p>Edit 8: iOS apps are coming to Mac.<p>Edit 9: A "Developer Transition Kit" is coming, which will ship new hardware (Mac mini with an A12Z) this week. You have to apply.<p>Edit 10: They expect the transition to take two years. They also said there's still new Intel-based Macs in the pipeline.<p>Edit 11: That's all she wrote. I'm personally sad and slightly surprised that they weren't giving us any hard performance numbers. Be it raw power or battery life improvements or anything really. If they're shipping hardware now we're bound to find out very soon, though.
New iOS features so far look like Android parity catchup. Finally, a way to remove apps from the home screen without uninstalling them, and an "all apps" view so you can still find them. And real home screen widgets. And picture in picture video. New Siri overlay design seems similar in function to the new Google Assistant overlay design. On device voice recognition for keyboard dictation, like GBoard on Pixel. Maps guides, bike directions, like Google Maps. App Clips, like Play Instant Apps. Incoming calls as notifications, like the Google Phone app.
The additional iOS privacy protections (camera & mic use, and Safari tracking sounds great). The developer self-reporting of data use is great, but can we trust self-reporting? What's to dis-incentivize the developers from lying?
The overproduction on this presentation is jarring.<p>Given that so much of Apple's success is based on "simple" and "familiar" things, having Craig Federighi hover of an ominous greenscreen'd floating keynote outside of Steve Jobs theater just feels off.<p>Surely the best way to make virtual events feel familiar is to have actual humans interacting, touching, etc? Instead here you have isolated individuals floating in computer generated environments. Why aren't we just watching memoji's talk to us if that's the case?
At 01:15:47 - "You may have noticed we've also updated the menu bar! It's now translucent and elegantly takes on the color of your desktop picture!"<p>Didn't they already make this mistake in Leopard? They must have gradually rolled it back since then to mostly readable, I guess, if they're now doing it again?<p>I hope there's a working high-contrast mode for those with less than perfect vision. This translucent mess is like Mac OS X 10.0 and the pinstripes all over again.
So, they'd be building their own integrated GPU. That was one of the biggest questions last few days, how they'd gap the graphics, but they are taking control over that as well. Good luck to them! Looking forward to see some comparison charts with Intel integrated graphics...
It astounds me that Apple is still pushing privacy as a big differentiator when most of the iCloud data (such as all of your photos and notes) <i>is not end to end encrypted</i>, and the iCloud Backup provides every single piece of information on your phone to Apple effectively unencrypted, including all of your previously-end-to-end-encrypted iMessages (in the chat history).<p>Until this is fixed, Apple's privacy messaging is just lip service. Do they think people just won't notice or care?<p><a href="https://sneak.berlin/20200604/if-zoom-is-wrong-so-is-apple/" rel="nofollow">https://sneak.berlin/20200604/if-zoom-is-wrong-so-is-apple/</a><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...</a>
Are App Clips Apples “answer” to PWAs?<p>Semi-installed Apps with more privileges than a website, requiring the usual iOS dev workflow with a paid plan of course (seems like App Clips are part of a regular App, so you have to write a regular app anyway). Oh and it supports Apple Pay and Login.<p>I’m convinced that this is another sign that PWAs are never going to be really capable on iOS.
Is it just I or the presentation was somewhat cringy?
The voice tone and body language reminded me of the low-quality and overly loud commercials I saw running in a loop in a store while trying to ignore them.
With widgets, Apple finally enters the decade we've just left behind.<p>Edit: also, mentions could go spectacularly wrong... "John is a real idiot!" -- oops.
This HomeKit presentation is such a Silicon Valley dream. It's almost like a 1%-er thing. Just feels unreal, average people are not like that. Interesting to see who really is the target.
After almost two decades, this is the end of OS 10. Check this out:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE?t=5837" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE?t=5837</a><p>This one goes to 11!
App Clips seem yet another lock-in solution. They want devs to go through the app store so they get full control and revenue access.<p>Instead of downloading a 10mb App Clip you just go to a url that uses some standards to login/access-payments. Done.<p>What more do App Clips do that couldn't be done in a much more interoperable and standardized way?
App Clips seem like they would be very convenient and useful if you're visiting a medium-large city and doing things you didn't know there was an app for.
App clips looks like yet another popup nightmare on websites. After the cookies notice and the notifications request I can be asked to switch to app clips.
From everything I've seen I'm actually most excited about the tvOS updates. They're really turning your TV in your central control system of your house but also make it the central point for entertainment, in-house exercise and gaming.
I think I am going to signup to Apple TV+ for the foundation series.<p>Now I can see why all streaming providers are hemorrhaging on big-budget original shows: they probably did research and find that those are the most effective attractor to potential user users on the platform.
I hope for Apple users this wil not be the disaster that the switch from Motorola to the PowerPC was. Back then, this is what turned me away from the Mac platform I used to love.
There is nothing about AppClips which look like they wouldn't be possible with QR codes.<p>Making these without providing Android support just feels mean, but I assume they are planning on making the Apple specific from the talk.
Does anyone else feel like Apple is pushing China a lot more this year?<p>I know they’re such a big and important country for corporate success, but it honestly feels like they’re pandering to Chinese consumers.
Did Apple actually just invent webpages with App Clips?<p><a href="https://xkcd.com/1367/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/1367/</a>
What is it with every messaging platform/app becoming reddit-style lately? First twitter did it, then a bunch of sites copied that, now Apple's messaging app is shifting to it? Weird! I think it's probably a good thing, but it's still jarring to see.