Zeyphersan
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I really wish Sonos supported airplay instead of its own app. As far as I am aware there's no reliable way to send say Overcast to it
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WWDC 2017 |OT| iOS 11, macOS 10.13, watchOS 4 & tvOS 11
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I really wish Sonos supported airplay instead of its own app. As far as I am aware there's no reliable way to send say Overcast to it
Technosteve
Banned
there's a hack for that... it's just not very reliable. Also private password protected podcasts are not supported.
https://github.com/josh/overcast-sonos
They do all FCPX updates at NAB in April, not WWDC.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Eh.... honestly, one idea I toyed with was buying a Play 5 and a refurb AirPort Extreme and line in the AirPort, just to have it as an AirPlay target
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
My hopes for the new 15" MBP aren't too crazy.
Kaby Lake - pretty much a guarantee
Better battery tech - if rumors were true, this is likely
A marginally faster BTO GPU - I'd love a 1060 or 1050Ti, but I guarantee that won't happen - I'd be happy with a 10-15% performance boost of an AMD 560 or something
32GB RAM - seems this straight-up isn't happening with the current chipset
Give me 3 out of 4, Apple. Please.
Kaby Lake - pretty much a guarantee
Better battery tech - if rumors were true, this is likely
A marginally faster BTO GPU - I'd love a 1060 or 1050Ti, but I guarantee that won't happen - I'd be happy with a 10-15% performance boost of an AMD 560 or something
32GB RAM - seems this straight-up isn't happening with the current chipset
Give me 3 out of 4, Apple. Please.
Zeyphersan
Banned
32GB of RAM is happening is Apple uses (and people are okay with) desktop RAM instead of LPDDR4
opticalmace
Member
About the new laptop stuff...
I'm on a late 2013 retina MBP. I don't know how but it feels just as fast as it did when I first bought it, and I think the battery lasts almost as long still (haven't checked it, but I can pretty much go all day with it).
I'd expect it to start to feel old/sluggish or something.... but yeah, I'm kinda shocked at how well it's held up. Is this a fluke or typical of modern macs? I'm not a huge fan of OS X but how good the hardware has been for me makes me inclined to get another MBP to replace this when the time comes.
I'm on a late 2013 retina MBP. I don't know how but it feels just as fast as it did when I first bought it, and I think the battery lasts almost as long still (haven't checked it, but I can pretty much go all day with it).
I'd expect it to start to feel old/sluggish or something.... but yeah, I'm kinda shocked at how well it's held up. Is this a fluke or typical of modern macs? I'm not a huge fan of OS X but how good the hardware has been for me makes me inclined to get another MBP to replace this when the time comes.
I have been using a mid-2012 Air and it is just starting to show its age a bit. I plan on getting a Pro soon and the Air will go to the wife.
LumpOfCole
Member
I'm really curious as to how Apple is working on making Siri better, especially if they're planning a Siri Box. "Here's what I found on the web for 'What is cove fluffy'" isn't going to cut it with what Amazon and Google offer.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Stolen from Reddit. Feedback app spilled the beans?
Not on a beta so I can't confirm at all
I need my digital assistant to deliver the memes. It's required.
Not on a beta so I can't confirm at all
I need my digital assistant to deliver the memes. It's required.
I don't think they could even fit regular DDR4 in the casing that the MBP uses. It would have to be made thicker or they'd have to sacrifice battery capacity (so a double whammy to battery life if using normal DDR4)
I'm assuming it's an 8+2 bit panel. As to why... I'd say it's probably hard to manufacture a display that's both high DPI and thin enough for what Apple prefers. The 15" does support 10-bit output over the dGPU, at least.
Oh and the battery thing isn't terraced batteries ala MacBook IIRC, it's non-rectangular batteries that would go in the corners to add a small-ish amount of capacity. You can see the space for it in the teardowns. I agree with you though, I don't think it really needs much of a boost. I'm very happy with my 15" in this respect. It would really only be welcome for situations where you're unplugged and driving the dGPU hard.
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
biosnake20
Member
Yeah it's in mine too.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Well well well. Tomorrow is going to be good!
Rodney McKay
Member
So do we know for sure if iOS 11 is going to make the 64bit switch for apps?
And this will mean that anything that hasn't been updated just wont work on devices with iOS 11, right?
There's only 2 apps (both games) I have that don't seem likely to be updated (Peggle Classic and XCOM), but it would suck to just lose them if I ever update my iPad Mini 2 again.
And this will mean that anything that hasn't been updated just wont work on devices with iOS 11, right?
There's only 2 apps (both games) I have that don't seem likely to be updated (Peggle Classic and XCOM), but it would suck to just lose them if I ever update my iPad Mini 2 again.
badcrumble
Member
I sure hope this year running the public beta of iOS 11 doesn't also mean your Apple Watch will cease to work with your phone; or, rather, I hope there's also an equally-easy public beta of watchOS 4 that comes along with the iOS beta by default.
(Good lord though, installing software updates on the Series 0 Watch takes so fucking long that it might still deter me).
(Good lord though, installing software updates on the Series 0 Watch takes so fucking long that it might still deter me).
Zeyphersan
Banned
No confirmation but it's looking really likely
Until people can restore their watch without having to mail it in, I don't think they'll ever do a public beta. That being said I don't remember the Watch on watchOS2 not working with the public beta of iOS10. I swear I did just that last summer, since I didn't get into the dev beta of watchOS3 until way later in the summer
Drag and drop, which currently isn't possible between split view apps.
Oh ok, sounds good
There's silence about almost everything this year. This is the least-leaked WWDC in ages, it feels like. Even most of the rumors we do have seem kind of bullshit.
Zeyphersan
Banned
In the case of some of them, amazingly transparent bullshit that people are eating up. Cough foxconn leak cough
Zeyphersan
Banned
Zeyphersan
Banned
Huh.
Does this indicate it will not be part of the OS but rather an optional app on the app store?
That would seem the best way. If the people want that level of complexity and granularity, they will seek out this app. The people who don't never have to see it.
Freestyler
Member
Majine said:
Nah, they just always add the stock/system apps to the App Store if they can be deleted (else you wouldn't be able to get them back without doing a factory restore).
John Caboose
Member
I'm actually excited for the first time ever over an Apple event. Maybe me currently having an iPad Pro, iPhone 6 and Apple Watch S2 has something to do with it. I'm most interested in seeing what changes they'll be making for the Watch.
99% certain. Yep.
A lot of stuff leak in the hours leading up to WWDC though, be it stuff Apple inadvertently put up early (see: Files app), or things leaked to the media as more people learn about stuff ahead of the keynote. So keep your eyes peeled over the next ten hours!
I suspect it'll be the existing iCloud Drive app renamed and extended with the ability to view the Documents folders within individual app containers. At least for those apps you can drag and drop files into in iTunes.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Didn't all those apps that previously used iTunes for syncing gain iCloud ability? I mean the amount of people that use iTunes documents syncing must be minuscule absolutely minuscule
Nah, apps can allow files to be dropped in via iTunes without supporting iCloud Drive, and probably vice versa.
For example, VLC let's you add files via iTunes but doesn't do iCloud Drive.
LumpOfCole
Member
I really always thought Apple was going to continuously double down on iCloud Drive for transferring files.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Ah, interesting. And I didn't mean like the apps automatically got upgraded, just that one feature set superseded the last. Didn't know about VLC, though
I do wonder why they didn't call it "Finder" however. Even if it didn't actually work like the Mac version, the name is familiar and I like it.
Prediction: they rename Finder to Files.
Zeyphersan
Banned
I thought about that. I don't think anyone would be happy...
That's actually pretty likely, though if they get rid of the Finder smiley face icon, it's gonna be really weird having a app in the dock that just looks like a folder.
Also, as someone has already mentioned, it wouldn't be surprising if they allow you to browse all your cloud storage services from the Files app. The current API to integrate them into other apps pretty much already allows browsing, reading and writing to them.
Beta for developers on the same day, public beta typically in July, final iOS release just before a new iPhone release, macOS release probably October.
LyleLanley
Banned
Dev betas will be out tomorrow, I think the public beta usually comes a little bit later.
Zeyphersan
Banned
I plan on waiting for the public beta but I fully anticipate being so excited by the new update that I hop on the developer track anyway
Frustrated_me
Member
I can already hear the thunderous applause from the Apple employees.
If the Iphone 8 is a 5.8" screen but most of the increase comes from a taller display, should we expect something like
2160x1080 (keep the 7 plus horizontal resolution and expand the vertical to 18:9)
Or of it isn't much wider than the 7, then could it still be 750 wide (so something like 1500x750)
I'm guessing they'd keep to one of the current sizes to avoid too much fragmentation and could mean no new icons giving thing away in the new iOS builds
2160x1080 (keep the 7 plus horizontal resolution and expand the vertical to 18:9)
Or of it isn't much wider than the 7, then could it still be 750 wide (so something like 1500x750)
I'm guessing they'd keep to one of the current sizes to avoid too much fragmentation and could mean no new icons giving thing away in the new iOS builds
jts
...hate me...
No way they will go back in pixel density from the Plus models.
But keep your expectations for today's event in check, they will not show the new iPhone
And everyone else.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Man I just REALLY want a landscape mode for all stock apps, it's unbelievable this still hasn't happened.
It's been almost three years since the introduction of landscape mobile apps!
It's been almost three years since the introduction of landscape mobile apps!