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vundercind · a year ago
I like how fast they turned “ha ha, at least they have a sense of humor about how stupid it is that it’s taken this long to get Calculator on iPad” into “…oh my” when Pencil entered the picture.

Good that it delivers something really nice and isn’t just finally getting the damn thing on iPad.

cgearhart · a year ago
Seems like they waited until they could do what Craig said of an iPad calculator app in 2020, “There’s some things that we have not done because we would want to do something really distinctly great in that space,” the Apple VP explained. “We want to do it when we can do it really, really well. And we honestly just haven’t gotten around to doing it great.”

https://apple.news/Avb5yX1lORG2uYmyWAB8VsA

markatkinson · a year ago
Yea I was tempted to make a joke that it took them 14 years (still ridiculous), but the new calculator app actually looks really impressive, and potentially will make learning math a lot more fun.
BXlnt2EachOther · a year ago
I'm not an iPhone user and not aware of any anti-spam features the Mail app already has, but I wonder how many marketing managers recoiled in their chairs when Apple introduced a GMail-style "promotions" folder away from the inbox, and say it's easy to group-digest and delete all mails from a single business.

edit for typo and clarity

doctorpangloss · a year ago
The Promotions tab could be much better in a stroke of a pen. Google just doesn’t want it to be.
markatkinson · a year ago
This feels like a parody of itself at times. I really wish they'd make these less cringeworthy so I could actually sit through the whole thing.
cube2222 · a year ago
I'm quite sure (and hope) that in many cases - at least in this year's WWDC keynote - it was in fact intentionally a parody of itself.

A bunch of these were really on the nose.

dmix · a year ago
Yeah it seems kinda meta and extra chippy than I remember it
moscoe · a year ago
Remember when WWDC was actually cool/fun? The dad jokes and over the top marketing BS is truly insufferable at this point.

Apple is definitely in its Balmer era. Give us something to get excited about, the presenters aren’t even excited about what they’re presenting.

menacingly · a year ago
it feels like microsoft showing off apple software
isoprophlex · a year ago
If you'd play a drinking game where you take a sip everyone assumes that awkward power stance, you'd be completely wasted 20 minutes in
dev_daftly · a year ago
So far, everything should have just been a blog post
jadbox · a year ago
I'm also feel Apple announced a bunch of feature that doesn't make the platform more useful in any general way. Like, I don't NEED iOS to pick my watch background photo or recolor my icons.
doctorpangloss · a year ago
On the contrary these aesthetic things are what like 99% of people actually want.
Apocryphon · a year ago
I have to wonder what Jobs would have thought about contemporary Apple using AI to mindlessly generate imitation Pixar images.
verticalscaler · a year ago
He would call them a bunch of tasteless bozos.
menacingly · a year ago
this is the video form of "bug fixes and performance improvements", and about as charismatic

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