A few quick WWDC notes for tomorrow's BubbleSort Show
Just a few quick #WWDC notes for tomorrow’s @BubbleSortShow recording. This should be a good one!
- Intro Video
- Far All Man Kind trailer from Ron Moore
- This looks pretty good actually
- good premise and cast.
- Ron Moore is a Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica veteran
- tv+ update
- tvOS
- multi user support for tv app and music
- It’s about damned time!!!!
- New music display with lyrics
- Apple Arcade.
- Screensavers
- Under the sea looks good
- I can hear Sebastian singing now😂
- watchOS 6
- Kevin Lynch
- new faces
- Gradient
- Large Numerals
- Modern Digital
- California Dial
- Analog Solar
- Taptic Chimes on the hour
Captured Recorded in Park 😂
- New Apps
- Audio Books
- Voice Memos
- Calculator
- Why wasn’t this there from the beginning???
- I mean calculator watches have been a thing since the 80s right?
- New Developer Features
- Independent Apps
- No iOS companion app needed.
- Extended time and sensor access
- PT sessions
- Teeth Brushing timer
- Meditation
- Streaming audio api support
- Podcast app developers and users of the world rejoice!!
- App Store on the watch
- This actually looks nicely done
- Support for browsing searching and purchase/downloading all right on the watch
- New Health & Fitness Capabilities
- Dr Sumble Desai - no idea how that’s really spelled
- Activity App updates
- Activity Trends
- Good progress tracking of some key metrics
- Looks like this is only in the iOS app
- Hearing Health
- Noise app
- Constant sampling for db rating with alerts for high ratings
- no recording, saving or uploading of data
- Menstrual Cycle Tracking
- looks pretty good actually
- Notifications for cycle and fertility window
- Also in health on iOS with no watch
- Kevin’s back
- Health App Updates & Redesign - iOS
- New Summary View
- Notifications
- Favorites
- Highlights
- Demo by watchOS program lead Haley Allen
- faces
- Modular Compact
- Infograph Modular update
- Now Playing Screen is more specific to the app playing
- Gradient face
- The App Store
- Browse reviews & screenshots.
- Direct downloads
- MLB app to demo live streaming.
- Kevin’s Back again
- Shazam built in
- That acquisition finally pays off
- automatic software updates
- New pride edition band
- Tim’s Back for customer sat report on iOS.
- Slamming the Android adoption rates hard
- iOS 13
- Craig Federighi
- Performance
- Faster Face ID by 30%
- Smaller app downloads
- Twice as fast app launch speeds
- Dark Mode
- nice jelly fish😂
- system wide
- Apps demonstrated
- News
- Calendar
- Notes
- Messages
- Keyboard looks nice and has swipe built in
- Photos
- The dark mode team photos were funny.
- New share sheet
- Music
- I like the dark mode app
- Time sync lyrics
- System apps
- Safari
- quick setting changes like font size
- Per website preferences
- Mail
- Rich fonts and desktop class text formatting
- Notes
- Gallery View
- Shared Folders
- Reminders
- Natural language reminder creation
- Quick Type Bar
- Tasks
- Organize to do items with a top level reminder
- Smart Lists
- tag people with message integration
- Maps
- impressive rebuild with more detail
- Us roll out this year - Sorry Chidgey
- Meg Frost director of product design
- New launch screen
- Favorites
- Collections - lists of faves and related locations
- look around window ala street view
- Craig’s Back
- Junction View
- ETA Sharing
- Privacy pitch
- location services
- New 1 time allowance
- Background tracking alerts
- Wifi and Bluetooth protections
- Login
- Screw you FB & Google
- Sign In With
- Simple api for devs
- Uses a dummy account with no personal info
- Choose to share your email or use a dummy email that forwards to your real one.
- A different dummy email for each app
- HomeKit
- HomeKit secure video
- Handled on local devices no unencrypted data sent
- Data saved for 10 days without impacting your storage quota
- HomeKit enabled routers
- Firewalls smart devices for protection
- Messages
- Share photo and name with people you message
- Improvements to Memoji demo
- Cool demo but seriously does anyone use Memoji?
- Memoji stickers
- Nice system keyboard integration
- A9 chip or later
- Camera
- Portrait Lightening Enhancements
- Photos
- New photo editor
- Much better video edits with rotation, filters and effects
- Browsing improvement
- Deduping and clutter removal
- Intelligent organizing
- New photos tab
- Demo Justin TT - Leader of Photos Team
- fast fluid change from years, months or days
- Nice dynamic display of section covers
- Craig’s Back
- Stacy Lysic senior director of OS product management
- Airpods
- Siri reads messages and lets you reply
- Audio Sharing
- HomePod
- Handoff to and from other devices by proximity
- Live radio via iHeart, TuneIn and Radio.com
- Personalized responses based on who’s talking
- Personalized music, messages, notes, reminders phone and calendar
- OMFG this is truly the year they figured out we have families
- CarPlay
- Improved dashboard
- Redesigned apps
- Siri support for 3rd party apps.
- Siri
- Shortcuts
- Now built in and more powerful
- the gateway for all shortcuts
- more natural cadence and emphasis during speech
- Nueral text to speech
- Entirely software generated speech via machine learning.
- Craig’s back with other miscellaneous iOS 13 improvements
- Send the dreaded “Unknown Caller” directly to voice mail
- Should’ve been a tent pole feature in my book
- Low data mode
- Multiple iCloud accounts for work & home
- Enterprise Single Sign On
- iPadOS
- Demo video
- Today widgets pinned on home screen
- Multi tasking
- Slide over
- Slid over multi tasks just like iPhone
- Split View
- Multi window app support
- app exposè
- better composing
- Files
- Column View with preview and actions inspector
- iCloud Drive folder sharing
- SMB file Sharing
- External storage and better camera support
- Safari
- Desktop class browsing
- Download Manager
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Custom Fonts downloadable from the App Store
- text editing
- Grab and scroll from indicator
- Improved cursor relocation
- Improved dragging for text selection
- 3 finger copy/paste/undo
- Pencil Improvements
- reduced latency by over 50%
- redesigned tool pallet
- PencilKit dev API
- Demo Toby Patterson senior director of iPad system experience
- that shrinking keyboard is nice
- Movable pencil tool pallet
- great corner pencil drag to get to markup
- Tim’s Back
- Mac Pro
- Demo Video
- that thing looks more like a cheese grater than the original
- John Turnis
- Stainless steel frame and handles allow easy customization
- 28 core 300 watt intel Xeon processor
- 12 ram slots over 6 channels
- 2933MHz ECC ram
- 1.5TB of ram supported
- Expansion
- 8 PCI slots
- 4 double wide
- 3 single wide
- 1 ½ length slot with io card
- 2 thunderbolt 3 ports with 2 additional ports on the top of the case
- 2 usb a ports
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- 2 gigabit Ethernet ports
- MPX Expansion Module
- Standard PCI connector reverse compatibility
- Extended for thunderbolt, display port and power
- That’s a heat sink
- the worlds most powerful graphics card
- Infinity Fabric Link
- Supports two cards per module
- Two modules supported
- Afterburner
- Hardware accelerated card for video editing in native formats
- 3 8K streams
- 12 4K streams
- 1.4 kW power supply
- 300 CFPM airflow via 3 fans
- Optional wheels
- worked with many industry software and content creators
- Demo David Earl pro apps marketing team
- new version of logic
- 1000 tracks 🤯
- 56 threads across 28 cores
- final cut
- 8K pro res raw
- Real time effects rendering
- 3 8K streams one hundred million pixels
- Back to John
- Colleen Ovielli - Mac Product Marketing team
- Pro Display XDR
- 32 inch 6K Retina display
- 6016 x 3384
- 218 PPI
- P3 wife color
- 10 bit color
- Reference mode
- Super wide viewing angle
- Anti reflective coating
- Matte option
- Extreme HDR
- rear lattice Heat sink
- 1000 nits sustained
- 1600 nits peak
- 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio
- 4 of these supported on the Mac Pro
- Pricing - all available in fall
- Mac Pro starting config
- 8 core Xeon
- 32GB ram
- Radeon Pro 580X
- 256GB SSD
- From $5,999
- Available in rack mount
- Pro Display XDR - $4,999
- Nano Texture version $5,999
- pro stand $999
- vesa mount $199
- macOS
- Craig is back
- Catalina
iTunes - Pour one out for a fallen homie
- Music
- There had better be catalog and meta data management options as well as smart playlists.
- Podcasts
- Search powered by ML indexing of content
- tv
- Finally! No more browser viewing
- 4K playback
- Dolby Atmos
- iOS devices sync directly from Finder Sidebar
- Sidecar
- iPad as secondary display
- Pencil support
- 3rd party dev support
- Accessability
- Find My
iPhone/Friends
- Now available on Mac
- Can locate devices that are offline
- Activation Lock
- System Apps
- Photos
- Safari start page
- Notes gallery view
- Screen Time
- Catalyst (AKA Marzipan)
- UIKit apps on the Mac
- Devs add a new target to existing iOS projects in Xcode and get a lot for free out of the box
- Twitter is coming back 🤦🏻♂️
- Atlassian senior iOS engineer Rob Chatfield
- AR
- RealityKit
- Reality Composer
- Build AR models and experiences in Xcode or iOS
- ARKit 3
- People Occlusion
- MineCraft Demo
- SwiftUI
- New declarative UI framework
- significantly much less code
- Interactive dev experiment Xcode
- SwiftUI demo - Josh Schaffer head of iOS UI frameworks
- this is pretty mind blowing
- Available on all platforms including watchOS and macOS
- Provides bindings to controls.