davidmalcolm

People don’t seem to be realizing that Springboard (your home screen) is not iOS, it is part of iOS, but it is part of the iOS UI, which obviously would be different depending on the device. 

Watch and TV’s respective systems are already based on iOS just with some chunks removed and some stuff added that’s specific to their platforms. iOS and macOS are already like this to some degree. The original iOS was based on a stripped down version of Snow Leopard. 

The big big question is, will Apple use the transition to “iOS desktop edition” as an excuse to lock down Macs to only sandboxes apps from the App Store? If so this would largely kill a lot of piracy on the Mac, you’d have no torrent clients, and you would be killing off a lot of bigger apps that have resisted Apple’s direction to bundle themselves into single bundles. 

Im really hoping that Apple leaves the restrictions on what can and can’t run the way they currently are. I don’t want to have to run a Windows or Linux NUC for torrents. 

That said other than that I welcome the shift to ARM. We will also be in a better space for apps than we were when we went PPC to Intel or Classic to X, since Adobe should already know that if they drag their feet Apple can just pump a bit of money into Serif and then eat their lunch. Microsoft already had office on iOS etc. 

I also do think the move to integrate cellular into all Macs would be a smart idea. And I really really hope these new ones ship with Pencil support. Being able to use pencil in graphic apps on a device as capable as a MacBook Pro would be a dream. 

I hope so much that Apple releases new Pros with a a redesigned keyboard that's more fixable/doesn't break. I wanna buy a new one, I've saved the money, but I'm dreading the possibility that I might need to some day use a BT keyboard with my laptop while on the go.

I hope Apple quickly embraces these new 8th gen processors. My 2011 MacBook Pro is. pretty long in the tooth but these chips will be the first ones that will genuinely feel like an upgrade worth making. (Now if only the price for an i7 with. at least a 500 gig SSD would come down.)

I really hope they put out a new small phone that still feels premium the way the SE did when it launched. I want to be able to get a great camera and colour accurate screen (not necessarily OLED because who cares) all in a package I can fit in my pocket without the thing bending or being too hard to type one handed with. Ideally over the next few months I'd like to get a new iPhone with Face ID, an iPad with Face ID, and I'd really love to get a quad core 13 inch MacBook Pro (dare I say with Face ID?) That said right now my MacBook is the only Apple device I own that really feels long in the tooth. I don't feel any desire to get an OLED iPhone since most of the time I already have to turn my brightness down. Just make sure it's a P3 accurate screen and that's good enough for me.

How is buying several HomePods (regardless of price) going to be cheaper than using the preexisting iPhone (and possibly Watch) people already have. Amazon can sell you a speaker that works for one or two rooms in your house. Your iPhone goes everywhere with you. They don't really need to compete with Echo on that front. What they do need to do is work harder to make Siri more extensible depending on which devices you own.