Quick question: what are you hoping for Apple to reveal at WWDC this year? I’m writing a piece and it’d be useful to get insight into improvements devs and anyone else hopes Apple makes or new things it introduces (and how they are achieved).
AI: Apple needs something huge here, and fast, fortunately for them, their OS'es are perfectly ready for deep AI integration thanks to Siri integration and Shortcuts
iPad improvements: relaxed AppStore policies regarding VMs, shells, IDEs; REAL background operation capabilities; multi-users support; further improvements in Files & Stage Manager
Refocus macOS as "workstation OS" again, which would help further distinguish iPadOS & macOS
@craiggrannell I want to hear more about the improved CarPlay that they trailed last year (or was it the year before?)
It was supposed to be in cars this year, but afaik there’s been no sign.
Will it be backwards compatible with existing cars?
@peteralee@craiggrannell I read somewhere that it was dead. For two reasons: 1. Apple’s focus had shifted from cars to AI, and 2. Car makers did not want to give a tech company so much control and influence over their products.
And who can blame them?
As an aside, the European car safety testing body is downmarking cars without certain physical controls. It’s not an official governmental organisation, but it is influential.
I think a backlash against screens in cars is happening.
@ianRobinson@craiggrannell
That doesn’t surprise me, to be honest. But it is a bit disappointing; the mock-ups looked great.
I know Volvo have adopted Google as their ICE embedded software system, but that doesn’t mean you have to have an Android phone. I’m surprised Apple aren’t interested in that market. (But as a hardware company, I shouldn’t be)
@craiggrannell Be prepared for a barrage of “macOS on iPad” responses.
I’d like to see the ability to run Mac apps on iPad, and with that the ability to install them from any source. But I’m painfully aware that that wouldn’t apply to my 6th gen mini, which will continue to be treated as the runt of the litter.
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