Jason Snell (@jsnell) on why Catalyst apps might be good for…
”Basically, the better the iPad app, the better the Mac app. This has some fun ramifications, because it implies that Catalyst may actually prompt developers to put more work into the iPad versions of their apps, too. iPad and Mac users can all benefit from that.”
Here’s what excited me about the WWDC keynote today. The iPad Pro lifestyle just got more feasible.
Thank you, micro.blog folks. I enjoyed sharing the keynote with you!
My favourite sort of Apple keynote: I have no strong desire to buy anything new as a result of it, but I know all my devices will get better in the autumn. Result.
All in all, that feels like Apple worked its way through a big old list of things people have been complaining about for years, and got pretty much all of it done.
iOS13 supported devices:
“New software features will be available this fall as a free software update for iPhone 6s and later, and will be available with iPadOS for iPad Air 2 and later, all iPad Pro models, iPad 5th generation and later, and iPad mini 4 and later.”
I love it when they do these developer-specific sections in the WWDC keynotes. I mean, they mean nothing to journalists like me, but there’s something cool about making consumer tech journos sit through this…
I knew nothing about Minecraft before this demo. And I know nothing about it after this demo.
Twitter for Mac is coming back…
Marzipan is now officially Project Catalyst.
Well, that Pro pricing did NOT go down well…
Nice to see the iMac G4’s best feature back in the new Pro Display XDR.
Uh. The demo fail on the new iPad selection gestures is not encouraging… The guy’s clearly nervous as heck, but still.
And there we have it - both external drive support on iPad, and the ability to import files traight into a particular app.
iPadOS!!! FINALLY!
Snoopy happy dance
Oh, fabulous. Multi-user support for HomePods is great news. Our living room HomePods get a huge amount of use - and it’ll be great to have my Apple Music profile with fewer My Little Pony tracks on it…
Those elongated ovals from the new version of the TV app seem to be a major design trend in iOS13.
Oh, wow. That’s a big upgrade on iOS photo editing. But that video editing is even more exciting. That’ll make the #mojo people very happy.
Beauty influencers. From the internet. Ah-ha.
Wow. Sign-in with Apple. It makes perfect sense as an extension of Apple’s privacy policy. It’ll be interesting to see who adopts it… and even more interesting to see who doesn’t. And that email cloaking feature is just genius.
I do enjoy Craig’s dad jokes, but then, I am very much a Dad.
Focus on iOS speed two years running? Nice.
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And my eldest is just going to love that lyrics feature.
OK, Tim Cook just won in our household. Multi-user support in tvOS will be so handy for the Tinworth clan.