s.metcalf

Foldable phones are notoriously fragile.  No chance in hell it could be as durable as a regular model.

Apple seems hell bent on pushing products that few people want of late.

There is zero reason why they can’t do multiple user accounts.  The don’t do it because they don’t want you to share iPads.  They want you to buy one for each member of the family.  It’s shameful.

tiredskills said:

The UI screenshots going round look terrible.  A lot of work needed to tone this mess down.

Why would I want to be able to see through my controls?!  The entire idea is stupid.  There had better be a system wide "turn off transparency" option.

Christ in hell that’s bad!

Looks like we’re in for a whole year of Apple developing this throughout iOS 26’s lifetime.  Maybe by iOS 27 it’ll be polished.  Maybe.

I don’t want a more computationally demanding (battery draining) UI either.

charlesn said:

Is it just me (always possible!) or does this roundup make this year's WWDC seem more like "housekeeping" as opposed to some real reno work or getting new furniture? Not that any of the above is bad, not at all, lots of little welcome changes, but it all feels like nibbling at the edges. I mean, when the "big" headline (thus far) is that Apple will use the design language it developed for VisionOS and apply it more broadly across devices, it seems like excitement is in very short supply. 

Been like that for years.  I stopped watching Apple presentations 3 or 4 years ago when they became at least 50% insufferable filler from annoying presenters (including “good moaning” Tim) about existing products, most of which don’t interest me.  Better to wait til it’s over and skip all the boring bits, I.e. most of it.

Or watch a Samtime recap on YouTube.

tht said:

Hoping this iPadOS multitasking rumor means unlimited background multitasking has finally made its way to iPadOS.

The problem is, the vast majority of iPads in circulation have 8 GB of RAM or less.  There’s only so much multitasking you can do with that.  We saw the effect of low RAM inhibiting performance on the MacBook Airs before Apple finally (and stubbornly) increased it to 16.  You have to buy a super expensive iPad Pro with 1 TB or more storage to even get 16 GB, and considering graphics have to use it as well, 8 GB will fall over fast.  Fine for a phone, but not a supposedly Pro “what’s a computer” device.

Apple are always so miserly with their RAM and storage offerings, they wait until it’s beyond embarrassing to do anything about it.  It’s why I didn’t buy an iPad Pro which I otherwise would have.  They lost hundreds of dollars profit from me over something that would’ve cost a few dollars or a dozen or two at most to increase.