I never know what to make of Apple events. WWDC seemingly is a presentation to their suppliers, and I get the business impetus to try to get them excited about something new to work on. It keeps them refreshed and energized. And naturally, new stuff is something of a consumer interest too. But it isn't the target audience.
I also understand the historical glitz of a Apple presentation. its cool in its own way because it harkens back to Steve's legendary obsession with them. The styles are often amusing too, and you can like or dislike as you feel fits you. I like Tim and Craig, but Angie and Kevin never strike me as likable. YMMV. And there are those legendary WTF moments like Jonny Iovine, or the goofy Jony Ive narrated "this is now we craft the al you min e mum bodies of the apple watch." Oh, and a demo of people playing games. Yawn. Yes, YMMV, fine.
My wish list: fix Siri. Tell me more about the service unit that is driving the stock price and expectations. Can macOS stop being so damned one size fits everything from a simple iMac for gramma to a macpro that makes hollywood movies?
It'd be so cool to hear about something revolutionary. 'We're making a satellite wifi system." Or, "we are gonna be a cell carrier." But...not happening, particularly at an event for suppliers.
Actually you left out the Mac Mini. Im expecying (hopeing) for a new low end desktop that is not completely bungled. Happiness could even come with an AMD processor or even an Apple ARM processor.
In regards to iPad face ID actually has mecwaiting for the next model. So the rumors of a modern iPad better be true. The small iPad and face ID would be ideal as it is the ideal size for in car use. Think navigation along with other trip uses. In any event we need A11 class processors in all of these iPads to get the AI acceleration hardware.
One of the reasons id like to see a Mac based on Apples ARM processors is to get access to that AI acceleration hardware. While i like to think of the current solutions as being 6502 level i do see a big future for such hardware. It will take Apple sometime to rework the OS and apps to completely exploit such tech though. However now is the time to get in on the ground floor.
SE2 is something else im waiting on. I really dont care about advanced features here other than A11 to power AI software.
Or even use variants of the A12, already in mass production, for some Macs and iPads.
iPad Mini spec bump, pleeeeease. I'm still on the Mini 2, iOS 11 absolutely crippled it but there's no point upgrading to the Mini 4 just to go from an A7 to an A8 processor so I've got everything crossed hoping Apple will give it one last refresh before they give up on it, like they did with the iPod Touch a couple of years ago.
All about the tech need, isn't it? I have the original, launch day iPad mini, and it works just fine for what I use it for. To me, it is hardly "absolutely crippled." Works just fine for all I ask of it.
Actually you left out the Mac Mini. Im expecying (hopeing) for a new low end desktop that is not completely bungled. Happiness could even come with an AMD processor or even an Apple ARM processor.
In regards to iPad face ID actually has mecwaiting for the next model. So the rumors of a modern iPad better be true. The small iPad and face ID would be ideal as it is the ideal size for in car use. Think navigation along with other trip uses. In any event we need A11 class processors in all of these iPads to get the AI acceleration hardware.
One of the reasons id like to see a Mac based on Apples ARM processors is to get access to that AI acceleration hardware. While i like to think of the current solutions as being 6502 level i do see a big future for such hardware. It will take Apple sometime to rework the OS and apps to completely exploit such tech though. However now is the time to get in on the ground floor.
SE2 is something else im waiting on. I really dont care about advanced features here other than A11 to power AI software.
Or even use variants of the A12, already in mass production, for some Macs and iPads.
1) Why are are you still on the chip being used for the iPhone in September to be used in a Mac in 2 weeks?
2) Where did you see that the A12 is "already in mass production"? I've only seen articles about TSMC's 7nm process for 2018 and an assumption that they'd being building the A12 sometime this year.
All about the tech need, isn't it? I have the original, launch day iPad mini, and it works just fine for what I use it for. To me, it is hardly "absolutely crippled." Works just fine for all I ask of it.
Fair comment, eightzero, but the Mail client doesn't always download new emails, Spotify stops playing when I open Google search, I can't install any more apps because it's only 16Gb and it's full and I periodically have to close all the apps running in the background because it's frozen. So you're right, 'absolutely crippled' is a little excessive, replace it with, 'noticeably and irritatingly slower than it was when I bought it and with less RAM and storage than I could do with so Apple are welcome to have some more of my money if they would offer me a replacement to spend it on'.
What you are able to do with this is essentially execute python constructs within a Swift Playground.
Chris has a more general [accepted] proposal for Swift interoperability with Dynamic Languages:
Motivation and Context
Swift is well known for being exceptional at interworking with existing C and Objective-C APIs, but its support for calling APIs written in scripting languages like Python, Perl, and Ruby is quite lacking.
C and Objective-C are integrated into Swift by expending a heroic amount of effort into integrating Clang ASTs, remapping existing APIs in an attempt to feel "Swifty", and by providing a large number of attributes and customization points for changing the behavior of this integration when writing an Objective-C header. The end result of this massive investment of effort is that Swift tries to provide an (arguably) better experience when programming against these legacy APIs than Objective-C itself does.
When considering the space of dynamic languages, four things are clear: 1) there are several different languages of interest, and they each have significant communities in different areas: for example, Python is big in data science and machine learning, Ruby is popular for building server side apps, a few people apparently use Javascript, and even Perl is still widely used. 2) These languages have decades of library building behind them, sometimes with significant communities and 3) there are one or two orders of magnitude more users of these libraries than there are people currently using Swift. 4) APIs written in these languages will never feel "Swifty", both because of serious differences between the type systems of Swift and these languages, and because of runtime issues like the Python GIL.
In the extensive discussion and development of this feature (including hundreds of emails to swift-evolution) we considered many different implementation approaches. These include things like Objective-C style bridging support, F# type providers, generated wrappers, foreign class support, and others described in the Alternative Python Interoperability Approaches section.
The conclusion of these many discussions was that it is better to embrace the fact that these languages are inherently dynamic and meet them where they are: F# type providers and generated wrappers require this proposal to work in the first place (because, for example, Javascript does not have classes and Python doesn't have stored property declarations) and providing a good code completion experience for dynamic languages requires incorporation of flow-sensitive analysis into SourceKit (something that is fully compatible with this proposal).
Given that Swift already has an intentionally incredibly syntax-extensible design, we only need two minor enhancements to the language to support these dynamic languages in an ergonomic way: this proposal (which introduces the @dynamicMemberLookup attribute) and a related @dynamicCallable proposal.
Don't expect too much for Mac. Apple is now a portable device company. The desktop is dead.
The Desktop is not dead, but Apple seems to have forgotten it. When you see xCode for iOS that can run on iOS, get the nails out for the Mac.
1) macOS and the Mac have never been better.
2) Do you really think Apple is going to kill an extremely profitable portion of their business so you can code on an iPhone and iPad when they already have an excessive number of developers willing to code for their iOS-based devices? I don't. The Mac is a pillar product for the company and getting all iOS developers to own a Mac is icing on the cake.
Actually you left out the Mac Mini. Im expecying (hopeing) for a new low end desktop that is not completely bungled. Happiness could even come with an AMD processor or even an Apple ARM processor.
In regards to iPad face ID actually has mecwaiting for the next model. So the rumors of a modern iPad better be true. The small iPad and face ID would be ideal as it is the ideal size for in car use. Think navigation along with other trip uses. In any event we need A11 class processors in all of these iPads to get the AI acceleration hardware.
One of the reasons id like to see a Mac based on Apples ARM processors is to get access to that AI acceleration hardware. While i like to think of the current solutions as being 6502 level i do see a big future for such hardware. It will take Apple sometime to rework the OS and apps to completely exploit such tech though. However now is the time to get in on the ground floor.
SE2 is something else im waiting on. I really dont care about advanced features here other than A11 to power AI software.
Or even use variants of the A12, already in mass production, for some Macs and iPads.
1) Why are are you still on the chip being used for the iPhone in September to be used in a Mac in 2 weeks?
2) Where did you see that the A12 is "already in mass production"? I've only seen articles about TSMC's 7nm process for 2018 and an assumption that they'd being building the A12 sometime this year.
Surely some of this hardware list could drop in a Tuesday website update. Especially spec updates with on form factor updates. A week or two before WWDC has been common in the past.
Actually you left out the Mac Mini. Im expecying (hopeing) for a new low end desktop that is not completely bungled. Happiness could even come with an AMD processor or even an Apple ARM processor.
In regards to iPad face ID actually has mecwaiting for the next model. So the rumors of a modern iPad better be true. The small iPad and face ID would be ideal as it is the ideal size for in car use. Think navigation along with other trip uses. In any event we need A11 class processors in all of these iPads to get the AI acceleration hardware.
One of the reasons id like to see a Mac based on Apples ARM processors is to get access to that AI acceleration hardware. While i like to think of the current solutions as being 6502 level i do see a big future for such hardware. It will take Apple sometime to rework the OS and apps to completely exploit such tech though. However now is the time to get in on the ground floor.
SE2 is something else im waiting on. I really dont care about advanced features here other than A11 to power AI software.
Or even use variants of the A12, already in mass production, for some Macs and iPads.
1) Why are are you still on the chip being used for the iPhone in September to be used in a Mac in 2 weeks?
Because a phone doesn’t make sense as the flagship device for new silicon.
Actually you left out the Mac Mini. Im expecying (hopeing) for a new low end desktop that is not completely bungled. Happiness could even come with an AMD processor or even an Apple ARM processor.
In regards to iPad face ID actually has mecwaiting for the next model. So the rumors of a modern iPad better be true. The small iPad and face ID would be ideal as it is the ideal size for in car use. Think navigation along with other trip uses. In any event we need A11 class processors in all of these iPads to get the AI acceleration hardware.
One of the reasons id like to see a Mac based on Apples ARM processors is to get access to that AI acceleration hardware. While i like to think of the current solutions as being 6502 level i do see a big future for such hardware. It will take Apple sometime to rework the OS and apps to completely exploit such tech though. However now is the time to get in on the ground floor.
SE2 is something else im waiting on. I really dont care about advanced features here other than A11 to power AI software.
Exactly the elephant in the room. This is the on upgrade i am waiting for... how old 2014...desperate need of an upgrade!
Actually you left out the Mac Mini. Im expecying (hopeing) for a new low end desktop that is not completely bungled. Happiness could even come with an AMD processor or even an Apple ARM processor.
In regards to iPad face ID actually has mecwaiting for the next model. So the rumors of a modern iPad better be true. The small iPad and face ID would be ideal as it is the ideal size for in car use. Think navigation along with other trip uses. In any event we need A11 class processors in all of these iPads to get the AI acceleration hardware.
One of the reasons id like to see a Mac based on Apples ARM processors is to get access to that AI acceleration hardware. While i like to think of the current solutions as being 6502 level i do see a big future for such hardware. It will take Apple sometime to rework the OS and apps to completely exploit such tech though. However now is the time to get in on the ground floor.
SE2 is something else im waiting on. I really dont care about advanced features here other than A11 to power AI software.
Or even use variants of the A12, already in mass production, for some Macs and iPads.
1) Why are are you still on the chip being used for the iPhone in September to be used in a Mac in 2 weeks?
Because a phone doesn’t make sense as the flagship device for new silicon.
Frustration with siri will continue to undermine anything that Apple tries to do. The most glaring example is homepod, which I basically only use as a homekit input device, and sometimes as an airplay speaker. If all they do is pile on more somewhat useful functions, siri will continue to suck. I just want apple to fix the basic, common sense functionality before it adds on more:
-improve basic dictation
-don't make things even worse by making wild, completely ridiculous guesses if siri doesn't understand what it said
-be able to use the info on our personal devices to inform siri requests (is that too much to ask?)
-have at least a little bit of the context awareness promised at siri's launch
-have a back-up, visual interface for idevices so you don't have to shout at siri for every little thing (e.g. I don't want to pause the music on my homepod when I want to know the details of the song I'm listening to or adjust the volume)
-be able to give more than one command/task at a time
-be at least a tiny bit humanistic (e.g. don't require exact wording for every little task, for example, if I'm trying to play, hypothetically, Dancemix 4, allow the user to say "play Dancemix 4", or "play Dancemix album 4", or "play Dancemix volume 4". It's absurd that siri will only recognize one of those options).
-and ffs, please allow us to shut siri up. I don't need some pseudo-clever reply all the time, just do the thing. I don't need to hear siri tell me over and over "I'll get right on that" "there you go" "home sweet home" "____ enabled", on and on..
I hope the rumors of siri's pending improvement are true, and I hope that it includes the basic functionality I just listed. I don't think any of that is too much to ask after >7 years, esp since it was supposed to do (or should've been able to do) most of what I listed at launch.
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I also understand the historical glitz of a Apple presentation. its cool in its own way because it harkens back to Steve's legendary obsession with them. The styles are often amusing too, and you can like or dislike as you feel fits you. I like Tim and Craig, but Angie and Kevin never strike me as likable. YMMV. And there are those legendary WTF moments like Jonny Iovine, or the goofy Jony Ive narrated "this is now we craft the al you min e mum bodies of the apple watch." Oh, and a demo of people playing games. Yawn. Yes, YMMV, fine.
My wish list: fix Siri. Tell me more about the service unit that is driving the stock price and expectations. Can macOS stop being so damned one size fits everything from a simple iMac for gramma to a macpro that makes hollywood movies?
It'd be so cool to hear about something revolutionary. 'We're making a satellite wifi system." Or, "we are gonna be a cell carrier." But...not happening, particularly at an event for suppliers.
2) Where did you see that the A12 is "already in mass production"? I've only seen articles about TSMC's 7nm process for 2018 and an assumption that they'd being building the A12 sometime this year.
When you see xCode for iOS that can run on iOS, get the nails out for the Mac.
Yeah... Apple has been rather quiet about Swift, lately. Swift 5 with ABI stability will be welcome.
I've been playing with Chris Lattner's Swift Playground that provides interoperability with Python.
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20171204/042029.html
What you are able to do with this is essentially execute python constructs within a Swift Playground.
Chris has a more general [accepted] proposal for Swift interoperability with Dynamic Languages:
I'm guessing that Apple may show us a version of xCode that can run on iOS with an iPad Pro.
2) Do you really think Apple is going to kill an extremely profitable portion of their business so you can code on an iPhone and iPad when they already have an excessive number of developers willing to code for their iOS-based devices? I don't. The Mac is a pillar product for the company and getting all iOS developers to own a Mac is icing on the cake.
Exactly the elephant in the room. This is the on upgrade i am waiting for... how old 2014...desperate need of an upgrade!