Official WWDC app gains dark UI, Apple TV support ahead of June 13 keynote kickoff

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• Reply 1 of 19

  staticx57 Posts: 405member

  June 3, 2016 6:35PM

  Now that Apple has a dark theme AMOLED is now acceptable.

  
• Reply 2 of 19

  antonpablo Posts: 90member

  June 3, 2016 6:53PM

  Well..you know what they say.."Once you go black, you'll never go back."
• Reply 3 of 19

  rogifan_new Posts: 4,297member

  June 3, 2016 6:53PM

  I get the feeling dark mode will be introduced with iOS 10. And next year we'll see OLED phones.
• Reply 4 of 19

  macxpress Posts: 5,808member

  June 3, 2016 7:00PM

  I wish iOS and Mac OS would have true Dark Mode. I don't care if we have OLED phones or not. It sucks using something with a white UI in the middle of the night.

  
• Reply 5 of 19

  zimmermann Posts: 324member

  June 3, 2016 7:02PM

  The screen on my temporary Nokia Lumia 930 phone, that I gladly dumped for a iPhone 6s last week (phew!) was Oled and was one thing I really liked on this phone. Off topic, the pictures it took where also very good. 
• Reply 6 of 19

  cpsro Posts: 3,198member

  June 3, 2016 7:11PM

  rogifan_new said:

  I get the feeling dark mode will be introduced with iOS 10. And next year we'll see OLED phones.

  IMHO the dark theme suggests OLED this year. It otherwise makes no sense for people to deplete their batteries faster with a dark UI on LCD so early in the iPhone product cycle.
• Reply 7 of 19

  cpsro Posts: 3,198member

  June 3, 2016 7:14PM

  Even without OLED, the dark UI looks quite nice on the smaller iPad Pro with its low-reflectance display.

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• Reply 8 of 19

  ireland Posts: 17,798member

  June 3, 2016 7:25PM

  staticx57 said:

  Now that Apple has a dark theme AMOLED is now acceptable.

  You have that backward. And we know 2017 is the year also.

  edited June 2016
• Reply 9 of 19

  ireland Posts: 17,798member

  June 3, 2016 7:28PM

  rogifan_new said:

  I get the feeling dark mode will be introduced with iOS 10. And next year we'll see OLED phones.

  The best predictor of future behaviour is recent past behaviour. Wouldn't surprise me if they wait for 2017 to introduce both and keep dark theme exclusive to OLED models.

  
• Reply 10 of 19

  cpsro Posts: 3,198member

  June 3, 2016 7:28PM

  OT feature request: I'd like to be able to view and control my Apple TV on my iPad, while in another room or even away from home. No need to turn on the TV.
• Reply 11 of 19

  ireland Posts: 17,798member

  June 3, 2016 7:29PM

  cpsro said:

  Even without OLED, the dark UI looks quite nice on the small iPad Pro with its low-reflectance display.

  Oh you certainly don't need OLED for a dark theme, but in all honesty, and I get stick for pointing this out, the black levels (forget about specs; I'm talking purely from visual) on Apple's current various models of iPhones for example are not up to scratch for a dark them IMO. I'm not saying they won't or shouldn't add it to iOS 10, but I can easily see if they do not why they didn't.

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• Reply 12 of 19

  cpsro Posts: 3,198member

  June 3, 2016 9:09PM

  ireland said:
  Oh you certainly don't need OLED for a dark theme

  The point which some here already know but which you seem unaware of is that (perhaps counterintuitively) dark imagery consumes more energy than light imagery when displayed on an LCD. Darkened pixels require active transistors in an LCD, and active transistors consume more energy. Inactive transistors yield white pixels with LCDs.

  edited June 2016
• Reply 13 of 19

  ireland Posts: 17,798member

  June 3, 2016 9:42PM

  cpsro said:

  ireland said:
  Oh you certainly don't need OLED for a dark theme

  The point which some here already know but which you seem unaware of is that (perhaps counterintuitively) dark imagery consumes more energy than light imagery when displayed on an LCD.

  I don't believe that's true: http://www.blackle.com/about
  
  But like I say, I wouldn't be surprised if a dark theme feature is for OLED iOS devices only.

  edited June 2016
• Reply 14 of 19

  cpsro Posts: 3,198member

  June 3, 2016 9:55PM

  ireland said:

  cpsro said:

  The point which some here already know but which you seem unaware of is that (perhaps counterintuitively) dark imagery consumes more energy than light imagery when displayed on an LCD.

  I don't believe that's true: http://www.blackle.com/about

  That ca. 2002 webpage--and the ca. 2001 research it cites--originates from the days when CRTs were prevalent and applies to CRTs. The cited research also states CRT energy use is affected more by the imagery displayed than the energy used by LCDs.
• Reply 15 of 19

  cpsro Posts: 3,198member

  June 3, 2016 9:57PM

  I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate that we're going to see the introduction next week of an iPhone Pro with OLED panel and low-reflectance optical coating (and other updated specs), and that the 6s/6s+ may be unchanged for another year.

  edited June 2016
• Reply 16 of 19

  rogifan_new Posts: 4,297member

  June 4, 2016 12:48AM

  cpsro said:

  I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate that we're going to see the introduction next week of an iPhone Pro with OLED panel and low-reflectance optical coating (and other updated specs), and that the 6s/6s+ may be unchanged for another year.

  Good god I hope you're wrong. We don't need another iPhone model. Anyway Rene Ritchie tweeted something cryptic about expect WWDC to be software focused. I get the feeling a little birdie from Apple leaked that to him so as to temper expectations that we'll see all this new hardware at WWDC.
• Reply 17 of 19

  mattinoz Posts: 2,315member

  June 4, 2016 7:35AM

  rogifan_new said:

  cpsro said:

  I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate that we're going to see the introduction next week of an iPhone Pro with OLED panel and low-reflectance optical coating (and other updated specs), and that the 6s/6s+ may be unchanged for another year.

  Good god I hope you're wrong. We don't need another iPhone model. Anyway Rene Ritchie tweeted something cryptic about expect WWDC to be software focused. I get the feeling a little birdie from Apple leaked that to him so as to temper expectations that we'll see all this new hardware at WWDC.

  If there is no hardware  at WWDC I'd expect a Frontpage hardware release this week to build anticipation.
• Reply 18 of 19

  smalm Posts: 677member

  June 4, 2016 4:04PM

  Dark UI is so pre Lisa.
  
  

  
• Reply 19 of 19

  mattinoz Posts: 2,315member

  June 6, 2016 1:53AM

  smalm said:

  Dark UI is so pre Lisa.
  
  

  Only if the text is Green?
  
  What strikes me as odd is the background colour isn't black but space grey (circa iPad Mini and iPhone4).
  It's a nice balance of dark but not black.