anonymouse

So, according to this article, there will be nothing to see here, maybe a periscope camera for the Max, otherwise, as others have mentioned, a snoozefest.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict there will be something more than hinted at here, that this won't be the most boring iPhone update ever.

The Ratatouille model of programming, although, in this case, I guess Xcode plays the part of Remy while the "developer" is Linguini.

rob53 said:

Currently just works with malware-providers Chrome and Edge on the Mac. Is W3C "owned" by Google or Microsoft? If it's being pushed by the EU, I can see why Safari isn't included.

The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium: https://www.w3.org

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium

It is not "owned" by Google or Microsoft, but Google, Microsoft and Apple are all members: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

I believe that at least some (most? all?) of these features require ATV 4K Gen2, which I don't think the article mentions (or I missed it).

Actually, I prefer these scripted, pre-recorded presentations to the old live events. I think they are able to present a lot more information more clearly and concisely than doing a live event allows. You also avoid wasting time with glitches that have nothing to do with the product or presentation. (Like Craig Federighi's "failed" Face ID demo, which only "failed" because the feature was working as designed and had been disabled because of stage hands handling it and looking at the screen before the demo.) The demos and presentations are also better and more compelling since they don't have the restriction of doing it on a stage in front of a live audience but can be more creative with it.

If one were attending in person, a live event would be more exciting, but how many of us actually ever have the opportunity to attend in person? And, frankly, even the live events were scripted and rehearsed, and the only person who was ever going to go off-script was Steve Jobs, so we aren't really missing anything in that regard. (I was at the WWDC right after Jobs returned to Apple, and I wouldn't have missed the Q&A session he did there for the world (the one where he talked about taking the Newton out back and putting a bullet in it's head, among other topics) but those days are, sadly, long behind us.)

There is some irony, though, that the Steve Jobs Theater was designed and built to host live events and they stopped doing them almost immediately after it was "opened".