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  • TikTok ban enforcement delayed another 90 days to September 17

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    But the CCP spying. 
    williamlondonlordjohnwhorfin

  • Apple TV+ is about art more than iPhone sales says Tim Cook

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    randominternetperson said:
    eightzero said:
    The intro piece with tim and craig was funny. I'm not a F1 fan (not even exactly sure what "F1" is other than a car race) but was actually the best part of the whole keynote. YMMV. (!)

    I do sort of chuckle a bit when people try to allocate gains and losses to specific things. Best example is how people claim "the USPS loses money." Government services aren't a business to show profit. Just how much money did the DoD make last year? So too with tim's explanation here. ATV doesn't "lose a billion a year." It is part of a bigger thing.

    F1 is also a key at the top of your keyboard.

    Personally, I thought the song at the end was the best part, but I did like the F1 bit as well.

    I liked it a whole lot less when I realized it was just a tie-in to a profit-center.
    williamlondon

  • Liquid Glass is more than skin deep on macOS Tahoe

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    Look at the Maps app window.   You say form follows function?   The traffic-light window control has always been attached to the window bar.  Look where it’s attached now.  How do you drag that Maps window around now?  I’m asking. Because I don’t know.  I don’t have macOS 26 installed yet.   Can I drag from anywhere across the top?  Do I have to grab from within the title area of the left area?  Can it also be from the next similarly tinted area next to it?   I don’t know.  

    There’s first order confusion about window dragging.  On a Mac.  41 years after its introduction. 
    williamlondon

  • If you were underwhelmed by WWDC 2025, you're not alone

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    nubus said:
    randominternetperson said:
    No offense, but are you a developer?  It's a developer conference where developers are introduced to new capabilities introduced in the new OSes.

    You can't judge a conference by its keynote.
    The WWDC Keynote isn't for developers. It started with a TV+ show and had fitness sessions. It also had an absurd number of "product people" showing their diversity by all being "thrilled" to stand in a virtual wasteland speaking the same marketing lingo. None of them would survive 2 minutes in a Standup with developers.

    As for the developer part... Xcode to include ChatGPT. Apple is at least 5 years behind MS and CoPilot. There simply is no Apple AI in Xcode for 2025/26. Somehow there are clients and more clients but no cloud or servers or partnership with cloud providers to tie things together. Cook is the king of iterations but the world is moving at pace.


    It STARTED with an ad for their upcoming theatrical release. They couldn’t even be bothered to do that much for developers.   And FYI, their diversity had nothing to do with anything you were talking about. They were product and engineering and design people, as appropriate to the topic. 
    williamlondontrainMan83muthuk_vanalingam

  • If you were underwhelmed by WWDC 2025, you're not alone

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    randominternetperson said:
    No offense, but are you a developer?  It's a developer conference where developers are introduced to new capabilities introduced in the new OSes.

    You can't judge a conference by its keynote.

    It's possible that the conference is ultimately "underwhelming," but its the conference attendees who will decide that.

    And it's day 2 of a 5-day conference!

    I’m a developer.  Apple said “over a hundred” sessions this year. Just a few years ago…2021, I think, they had put out over 200.  It’s been a significant decline for a while now.  This was particularly bad though.  So much so, when they made all the sessions available right after the Keynote, I was convinced they weren’t ALL the sessions for the whole week.  
    williamlondontrainMan83