WWDC 2015 Roundup 415
Here's an overview of the main announcements and new products unveiled at WWDC today.
- The latest OS X will be named OS X El Capitan. Features include: Natural language searches and auto-arrange windows. You can make the cursor bigger by shaking the mouse and pin sites in Safari now. 1.4x faster than Yosemite. Available to developers today, public beta in July, out for free in the fall.
- Metal, the graphics API is coming to Mac. "Metal combines the compute power of OpenCL and the graphics power of OpenGL in a high-performance API that does both." Up to 40% greater rendering efficiency.
- iOS 9: New Siri UI. There’s an API for search. Siri and Spotlight are getting more integrated. Siri getting better at prediction with a far lower word error rate. You can make checklists, draw and sketch inside of Notes. Maps gets some love. New app called News "We think this offers the best mobile reading experience ever." Like Flipboard it pulls in news articles from your favorite sites. HomeKit now supports window shades, motion sensors, security systems, and remote access via iCloud. Public Beta for iOS 9.
- Apple Pay: All four major credit card companies and over 1 million locations supporting Apple Pay as of next month. Apple Pay reader developed by Square, for peer-to-peer transactions. Apple Pay coming to the UK next month support in 250,000 locations including the London transportation system. Passbook is being renamed "Wallet."
- iPad: Shortcuts for app-switching, split-screen multitasking and QuickType. Put two fingers down on the keyboard and it becomes a trackpad. Side by side apps. Picture in picture available on iPad Air and up, Mini 2 and up.
- CarPlay: Now works wirelessly and supports apps by the automaker.
- Swift 2,the latest version of Apple’s programing language . Swift will be open source.
- The App Store: Over 100 billion app downloads, and $30 billion paid to developers.
- Apple Watch: watchOS 2 with new watch faces. Developers can build their own "complications" (widgets with a terrible name that show updates and gauges on the watch face). A new feature called Time Travel lets you rotate the digital crown to zoom into the future and see what’s coming up. More new features: reply to email, bedside alarm clock, send scribbled messages in multiple colors. You can now play video on the watch. Developer beta of watchOS 2 available today, wide release in the fall for free.
- Apple Music: “The next chapter in music. It will change the way you experience music forever,” says Cook. Live DJs broadcasting and hosting live radio streams you can listen to in 150 countries. Handpicked suggestions. 24/7 live global radio. Beats Connect lets unsigned artists connect with fans. Beats Music has all of iTunes’ music, to buy or stream. With curated recommendations. Launching June 30th in 100 countries with Android this fall, with Windows and Android versions. First three months free, $9.99 a month or $14.99 a month for family plan for up to six.
24/7 Live Global Radio (Score:2, Insightful)
"Live DJs broadcasting and hosting live radio streams you can listen to in 150 countries" -- So in other words, Apple re-invented shoutcast?
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Yeah, but with APPS!
I have no interest in being connected 24/7, I always own an older model of iPhone (free hand-me-down) which can never run the latest version of iOS, I don't want a smart watch let alone at the price Apple are asking, Metal on OS X is great news but I finally built myself a low-end Windows gaming PC and my music tastes are so far from mainstream that Apple music will probably be 99% useless (I'll check out the three free months to confirm that).
This is the first time in a decade that I f
Re:24/7 Live Global Radio (Score:4, Funny)
Don't worry, I just wasted time reading your comment, so we're even.
-- Tim Cook.
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I know -- from Quad Core down to Dual Core. :-(
Guess the profit margins are just high enough ...
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And on-board, soldered RAM with no upgrade possible after you buy it. Since you can't delay upgrades, that makes the Mac mini too expensive at purchase time. And the entry-level model just plain sucks. Only 4GB of RAM, a slow 1.4GHz CPU and still using a 5400RPMs HDD in a 600$CAD computer in 2015, really?
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I know -- from Quad Core down to Dual Core. :-(
Guess the profit margins are just high enough ...
Intel didn't have any quad CPUs that would fit at the time of the update, so they were all dual core.
Assuming it gets updated again (it's been a while) then the CPU selection will be down to whatever Intel has shipping at that time.
This is the same issue that has affected the 15" MBP refresh - the CPU was not updated since there were no quad broadwell CPUs with a suitable TDP, while the 13" was updated with the dual core broadwell chips that were available earlier this year.
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Dear Tim,
the last Mac mini update was incredibly lame. Seriously, what was that?
Dear AC.
Ask Intel.
Regards,
Tim
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Anonymous Coward,
We would rather you buy our garbage can shaped Mac Pro.
--Tim Cook.
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Which doubles as a juicer as well. Just push the carrots through the fan and a revitalizing and nutritious drink is server right on your desktop. Turn that minty green nerd complexion into a sexy carotine tan. This is why all the apple execs look so tan.
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And why do the macbook pro laptops come out every year but the mac mini every two years or so? Maybe Apple should outsource low-profit products like mac mini to outside OEM's.
This was already tried in the days of the Mac clones. The clone makers had no interest in the low profit zone and instead tried to poach the high end customers instead. This was why the first thing Jobs did when he came back was to end the clone experiment.
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Not only that, but the clone makers got to just build out hardware and ship it - they didn't have the R&D overhead to actually design the system in the first place, much less develop and maintain the operating system.
Many of the clones were just Apple boards that were licensed and reconfigured. There were many PowerComputing boxes that were essentially a PowerMac 7300 for 20% off the price. I bought one instead of a "real" Apple back in the day. It's no wonder that Jobs put a stake through the heard
Re:Can/Should I Upgrade to iOS 9, or not? (Score:4, Funny)
Will the batteries last longer for somebody who mainly does phone calls and texts?
... Why do you own an iPhone.
I'm loving the future thing !!! (Score:3)
Future Shock (Score:5, Funny)
I've been beta testing this feature and you are right about it being useful with the News and Stockmarket app. It seems buggy though because I can get it to turn past the 2016 NASA news release about an unseen asteroid suddenly passing by the moon heading for earth. The only apps that continues further into the future is the weather app which reports blackout skies, and 2700K surface temperatures with rains of ash and nitric acid. And The health app shows my pulse rapidly rising then flat lining about that time. Facebook shows I was unfriended by the whole world and all the you tubes are of a fireball in the sky, but nothing past that date.
The watch actually allows you to travel into the future as well. It's a beta version so the rate of travel is really slow right now, but you can feel youself travel about 1/sec into the future every 1/sec if you watch mickey mouse's hands. If you put it in developer mode there's also a timetravel stop watch. It freezes the whole world except you. I was using it to rob a bank one day and I dropped it. So I traveled back in time to post this on slashdot to warn everyone about this.
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See what next week's stock market will look like or.
They actually joked about that in the presentation: "We're having a bit of trouble getting the stock ticker to work..."
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I thought they made a really compelling argument for Apple Radio. They are pushing on the idea of a distinction between radio and algorithmically-driven playlists. Of the role of a djay in curating music and placing it in a cultural context. On the very notion of pop music not as a pejorative term but as a dimension of our shared experience.
Ok sure, I'll bite, at least for the trial period. $10/mo sounds expensive, tho.
Re:24/7 Live Global Radio (Score:5, Interesting)
I thought they made a really compelling argument for Apple Radio. They are pushing on the idea of a distinction between radio and algorithmically-driven playlists. Of the role of a djay in curating music and placing it in a cultural context. On the very notion of pop music not as a pejorative term but as a dimension of our shared experience.
Ok sure, I'll bite, at least for the trial period. $10/mo sounds expensive, tho.
$10/mo is cheap compared to SiriusXM. SiriusXM is a terrible company, their customer service is awful and their marketing machine makes the people selling fake viagra blush. Advertisements on some channels (Comedy in particular) are some of the sleaziest late-night ads I have ever heard. But I have struggled to find something better. The barrier to entry into online services is a bit high- every online service there is requires some tweaking, customizing, or "learning your tastes" period, whereas I can just turn on Sirius and go to a genre channel and get exactly what the channel says it is.
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...whereas I can just turn on Sirius and go to a genre channel and get exactly what the channel says it is.
Which is its weakness, for me. I don't want to stick to a genre. I'd like things mixed up, genre-wise and era-wise. I suppose I'm in a very small minority that way.
yeah less features, smaller storage. (Score:2)
As someone once said "Lame."
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extremely popular with the mainstream....And highly profitable.
Wish everything I did was that lame.
Complications (Score:5, Insightful)
If you knew anything about watches, you would know that "complication" is the horological term for an additional feature on a watch.
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The name of the technology makes no difference to how complicated the UIs are.
"Widgets" is less use as it's not specific to watch face enhancements. "Complications" are.
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"So who cares what you call a phase of the moon indicator on a mechanical watch when deciding what it should be called on a smartwatch?"
If you haven't noticed, Apple has been bending-over-backwards to get the horological community to consider the Apple Watch a "Real" watch. So far, they've actually had some success [hodinkee.com] in that endeavor, which is quite surprising for a fanbase that should, by all rights-and-privileges, despise them. For a contrast, I'd really like to see what the Horologists think of the Samsung Watch(es).
Using Horological Terms-of-Art such as "Crown" and "Complication" are consistent with that vocabulary and marketing goal.
WWDC Means... (Score:5, Informative)
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I did not know, and it is interesting how the brain works hard to fill in the blanks - and after reading only the title, there is really no context at all except there is some kind of 2015 event, so the brain does not have much to work with. The first association was "World War something something". The next one was something related to wrestling or martial arts. Then there is World Wildlife something. All options are immediately discarded because this is Slashdot. Then you start skimming the article and re
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Funny...I thought it was a rock station in Washington, DC. [dc101.com]
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We know, it was posted on here to great acclaim when it was first announced.
"Complication" (Score:5, Informative)
The phrase "complication" is borrowed from watch horology, meaning some function that's unrelated to the basic three functions of the watch, telling the hour, minute, and second. So things like stopwatches, day/date/month displays, moon phase displays, mainspring reserve power, spelling out the time with a series of chimes, that kind of thing. For a mechanical watch, you're cramming in more and more functions into an increasingly small case, so more is more difficult and considered by some to be more admirable.
If you want to see the ultimate example of pre-computer watch design, the Graves Supercomplication is worth reading up on, with 22 functions on both the front and back of the watch.
Re:"Complication" (Score:5, Funny)
you're cramming in more and more functions into an increasingly small case, so more is more difficult and considered by some to be more admirable.
I know a number of software developers who think along these same lines... ;)
Must be getting old. (Score:2, Interesting)
Latest OS X: Expected, while interesting features nothing huge.
Metal: New Graphic engine... Again! means developers will need to rewrite their apps so they look right with the OS.
iOS 9: Kinda neat. When I get it I will update and play with it.
Apple Pay: Nothing new to me.
iPAD: Sounds like stuff android had for a while.
Car Play: So I have to buy a new car to get this? Sorry I like a car that is good on fuel, dependable, and affordable, if it comes with Car Play great if not no big deal.
Swift 2: Get me a vers
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Refinements. Not every version, every year can be stunning. After all a lot of what can be done with current mobile technology has already been done.
What will revive mobile devices is external enhancements like the watch, glasses... Not to suggest that the watch is revolutionary (although some believe so).
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It's a good point. Maybe the changes are too incremental so nothing appears stunning. LOL!!
Lets be honest. Other than new H/W support and GUI improvements what really changed in client OS tech in the last 10 years? I'd say very little.
Re:Must be getting old. (Score:4, Informative)
here's a refinement: they finally fixed the shift key in ios9. by default, all the keyboard letters are lower case. when the shift key is engaged, all the keyboard letters are upper case. makes sense! this was sorely needed.
My fear is that they keep adding complexity of different offscreen features and gestures. A big point for ios was that it didn't come with a user's manual because it was so simple and intuitive you didn't need one, but I feel like we're a stone's throw away from the dummy's guide for ios.
Re:Must be getting old. (Score:5, Informative)
Swift 2: Get me a version where I can make apps in Windows or Linux too... Otherwise OK that is fine, but staying to one
Swift 2 CAN make apps for Linux. Apple's releasing the compiler and the standard libraries for Linux.
And as its open source, someone can do the same for Windows. Given Microsoft's recent moves I wouldn't be surprised it Microsoft themselves port it.
This is the big news for Slashdotters from this years WWDC.
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And if someone can port Swift to Android, we'll finally have peace on Earth and the IPU will win the holy war against the infidels of the FSM.
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Of course for app portability you'd need to write the equivalent of Cocoa Touch for Android. And the equivalent of all the other frameworks too.
Re:Must be getting old. (Score:4, Informative)
I'd really like Apple to put Swift and Metal out there as open source - it will only increase the adoption rate. But past performance leads me to doubt...
What, do you mean like with WebKit or CUPS [cups.org]?
Sorry, but past performance shows you are wrong. FWIW, Apple never promised to make FaceTime Open Source; what they said was that they were going to openly publish the protocol. I'm rather cheesed that never happened as well, but they never promised to open their source code to FaceTime.
On the other hand, Webkit is a huge OSS project, which is used by a variety of products and companies, and which has a lot of non-Apple/non-Webkit contributors. Indeed, if not for WebKit, there wouldn't be Google Chrome. CUPS is, of course, the print subsystem used by virtually every Linux distro.
Those are the projects you need to judge Apple's OSS track record on.
Yaz
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Your comment on metal is total bs. Regular apps benefit because the underlying libraries (cores rapids and core animation) have been re written to use metal for better performance. Want to use it for your graphics or rendering engine? Then you will need to write code but your app will look just as native as always either way.
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Metal: Not a new Graphics Engine. It's been on iOS for two years.
iPad:"Android" hasn't had split screen. "for a while" Samsung has had split screen for a while but with little third party support. The iPad split screen implementation should work for all apps that were updated to support iOS 8's screen size classes.
CarPlay: You have to buy a new radio if you don't already have a car that supports it. It's been out for a year.
"Being that this cost more than Netflix or Hulu and you get less data traffic, it
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there's aftermarket carplay head units. Crutchfield has a few, starting with this Pioneer [crutchfield.com] for 500. I've been considering getting one for my old Civic (or whatever replaces it, if it continues to act like it wants to be retired).
Does El Capitan Fix Major Problems? (Score:5, Interesting)
-Can you access the file dialog with out waiting forever with just the spinning disk showing?
-Does the filesystem update when things like screenshots are taken with out having to force a reload of the filesystem cache?
-Can you lock the dock to a certain position on one screen?
-Can we have it so the HDMI Port stops cutting out?
-Can the screen properly update without black boxes sometimes covering content / UI elements?
-Can we have an OS that doesn't feel like it is from the early 90s?
-Can we have more graphical setup options instead of having to do things through the command prompt?
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You can blame the "journalists" for that one.
Basically the big reason why iOS made the change to flatness and why flatness is the new hotness is because some very big loudmouths started saying they hated the way everything looked the same as it did before.
I believe the term bandied about was "stale". As in "iOS6 - the same old iOS that looks the same as it did since 2007. Stale, compared to the flashy updates to the UI Android makes, or the
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Personally, I was thrilled to get rid of the glossy bullshit.
A "lickable" OS was great to differentiate OS X and show off new technologies, but after a while it just looked tacky.
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So it's not just me then. Core 2 Duo with nVidia 320m, 8GB RAM and 5400RPM HDD here, what about you?
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The file dialog needs some love, or a setting that says "do not poll all disks" - I have an SSD as the boot drive, but I do have connected external and internal storage on spinning drives that is accessed infrequently.
It's a pain in the ass when you open a file dialog box and the system pauses to wait for all the drives to spin up. I would prefer it to only spin the drive up if I click on a folder or volume that is on that drive.
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I've experienced literally none of those things on any of the Macs or iOS devices that I come in contact with daily. Are you certain that those aren't particular to your own system?
Not implying that those are bug-free OSes, I say typing on "ComputerName (23)".
Those issues are real enough (Score:2)
I've experienced literally none of those things on any of the Macs or iOS devices that I come in contact with daily. Are you certain that those aren't particular to your own system?
I've run across most of those issues at one time or another on Mavericks, on both my work macair and my wife's powerbook (the display port drop-outs are particularly annoying). It isn't helpful to simply dismiss issues people raise ... frankly, it makes you sound like a systemd developer. Better for all of us if these issues ar
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It isn't helpful to simply dismiss issues people raise
Agreed, and I'd never do that. I asked it OP was sure that they weren't hardware problems on his own computer and not something more widespread. I did that because I haven't seen any of those problems myself and hadn't heard of them before now.
Better for all of us if these issues are raised and fixed
Also agreed. I've filed plenty of bugs to Apple's tracker over the years so that they know someone's affected by them.
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-Can you access the file dialog with out waiting forever with just the spinning disk showing?
Sure, that's easy. Never use a network share. Not ever.
This just in (Score:2)
Nothing happened at WWDC today.
No, even less than that.
Can someone translate "1.4x faster?" (Score:2, Insightful)
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It translates to "it will look faster than Yosemite, but only after a fresh install. After you installed your beloved programs, it will be slower".
Fun fact : If you multiply all the supposedly "X times faster" since 1984 and take into account the faster CPUs, you'd probably have startup times of a few nanoseconds.
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Depends, what's the speed of Yosemite relative to Snow Leopard?
And faster...how? (Score:2)
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Apple sheep here(I own 3 daring fireball shirts, so I think that should establish my sheep cred here).
It's marketing pablum. It's not slower, and really, that's more than what I can say for other OS upgrades.
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Actually, I understood it the other way. 2x faster means twice as fast, 100% faster, or 200% of the baseline. 1.4x faster is the same as 40% faster, 140% of the baseline.
what will happen to paid radio? (Score:2)
Looks like paid radio services will have some tough time ahead. Specially for families, the Apple Music will be actually cheaper than Pandora premium. Also, with complete iTune catalog on it, it will be have vastly more content than competitors. And now it works across range of devices, so yet another benefit of using Pandora like services is going away. Not sure what is happening, but this is very very frightening with Apple holding all your eggs.
Apple Developer Program now all inclusive (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive (Score:5, Interesting)
Additionally, you no longer need to be in the developer program to build and run code on an iOS device. The $99 / year membership is now only needed for selling things in the App Store. Anyone with an Apple account can download the Xcode 7 Beta and deploy a compiled app to their own physical iOS device.
Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive (Score:5, Informative)
Wait, you guys (Apple developers) have to pay *licenses* to Apple to write programs and apps on their platforms?
No, of course not, Xcode is a free download and you can write programs and apps for any iDevice for free. (Ignoring the cost of the Mac you need to buy in the first place, of course.)
You just can't let other people use them without forking over $100/year. (At all for iOS or without making users disable scary security dialogs for OS X.)
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Wait, you guys (Apple developers) have to pay *licenses* to Apple to write programs and apps on their platforms?
Of course not. Apple makes Xcode available for free and you can use it to your heart's content. The paid license is for distributing apps through Apple's store. That's almost a requirement for iOS development (although you can install home-written software on your own stuff, I think), but not at all needed for Mac development. Lots of software is available via the Mac app store; lots more is available through developers' own websites.
How are you guys OK with this?
They wouldn't be. Fortunately, they don't have to be.
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That's almost a requirement for iOS development (although you can install home-written software on your own stuff, I think),
Nope! You need to pay them to do that, and there's a limit to how many devices your organization can install apps to. I'm not sure what the limit is for the base plan since I only have ever used the Apple developer program through my employer. But there's a whole process to get a device "provisioned" to be able to run apps you're developing and there's a limit based on your plan with Apple.
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The "Process" for a development device (one that gets the app automatically when you hit compile in XCOde.
1 - Add the device ID to your developer profile.
2 - Ensure that your app set to the "auto" profile. As it will be anyway for new apps.
That's it.
For beta testers, you can have 1000 of them, and you don't need their device IDs or Apple IDs. Just their email address.
Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive (Score:5, Informative)
You also get two technical support incidents with actual apple engineers that will go through your code, look at bugs with you, offer suggestions/help.feedback/ and help you fix your problem. Obviously this would be something worthwhile in case you've exhausted all avenues of technical support from the web or from other colleagues.
It also includes the ability to sell your apps on the apple store. Sure, you could do it but how are you going to get the visibility you need to get your app noticed if it is not in the app store? How are you going to set up the payment system/networking/server maintenance/etc/etc so that you accept all major credit cards and get all that secure for people to buy your app? (assuming you have enough traffic to even warrant such as set up)
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Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive (Score:4, Insightful)
Wait, you guys (Apple developers) have to pay *licenses* to Apple to write programs and apps on their platforms?
No.
You can get Xcode and all the SDKs for free either through the app store or by registering as a developer (free). You pay $100 for the ability to sign your compiled applications. On OS X this means people who download your compiled binaries won't get a warning that the code is unsigned.
On iOS you can't put unsigned code on any device, not even your own, without the signing cert so to do serious development, you need to pay $100 (your code will run in the simulator without signing, but the simulator runs x86 binaries so it's not a proper test of the code's behaviour on a real device). This isn't really a big deal because to develop for iOS you must have a Mac and some sort of iOS device so you can probably afford $100.
The $100 also gives you early access to all betas, so I could install El Cap now, if I wanted (I don't), however, over the last year or so, for me it's been most useful for access to Swift betas. The early versions of the Swift development environment were tragically unstable and produced code that was quite slow. You had to be on the bleeding edge to get all the bug fixes.
Re:Apple Developer Program now all inclusive (Score:5, Informative)
Back in 2008... [roughlydrafted.com]
Symbian code signing was like 200 bucks every six months(So 400 a year!) back in the Symbian days and you got little to no support.
BlackBerry signing was a little complicated and had three tiers of API usage, each tier costing $100.
Qualcomm had their own requirements that was something like 100 apps for 400 bucks for use on the Verizon game store.
So in 2008 when Apple announced that it was going to only cost $100 bucks for unlimited apps and all public APIs with a storefront that you could make money on, it was a godsend.
Re: Apple Developer Program now all inclusive (Score:3)
What cognitive dissonance? There is none. Apple have lots of money. I'm comfortably well off. I don't mind paying this money to them to pursue my hobby.
Other bits of my coding hobby cost a lit more, like paying for web hosting of my ad-free resources that I put up. And paying for equipment.
The developer fee is pretty cheap. Last date night out with my wife cost more, once we factor in dinner and gabby sitter.
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What about all the competing content sources? (Score:5, Insightful)
Far be it from me to throw cold water on an idea, but I do have an observation. One of the byproducts of the mobile/social/web 3.0/content dotcom boom is the sheer number of different content providers that offer a library of movies, music and TV shows. Amazon offers Prime Instant Video plus for-purchase titles, Google has the Play Store, Netflix offers streaming, Hulu offers streaming, Spotify offers streaming, Microsoft is offering content, and now Apple offers a mix of both like Amazon does. (Fun fact, you pay a couple more dollars in Apple tax for the same content if you use iTunes rather than Amazon to buy some movies.)
The question is -- when will the Great Consolidation happen? Now that everyone is opting to license their content rather than pay for physical media, will there come a day when all the competing App Stores, Music Stores and Movie Streaming Services start merging, and what will happen to the content when that happens? It just seems to me that having Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Apple, and all the TV providers maintaining their own separate content libraries can't be sustainable. Nor will people want to purchase subscriptions from all of them, or the Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Google TV, etc etc etc
Re:What about all the competing content sources? (Score:5, Funny)
Thank God we've finally cut the cord!
Re:What about all the competing content sources? (Score:4, Informative)
This made my day. What's funny is the lack of understanding that these companies and many stores offer more competition to consumers than ever before, and the average price is still ridiculously low. Even if you were to subscribe to every service and buy digital content from each company on a frequent basis, it would still be cheaper than shelling out $150-200/month for the same/similar level of content from cable providers. Hollywood is the only loser in this game as they're watching their home entertainment profits erode from foreign competition, indie stuff, and these companies just growing a pair and coming up with their own stuff.
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I've wondered the same thing.
I'm getting tired of content provider A providing X, and Y but not Z; content provider B providing X and Z but not Y.
The greed of licensing makes it frustrating for consumers.
Consolidation? Probably never. The pie is too big. i.e. Think Cable, Streaming, Physical order multiplied by Music, Radio, DVD, BluRay.
Complications (Score:2)
Yet another proprietary API... (Score:4, Interesting)
Anybody else think that Apple should ditch Metal in favour of Vulkan? If they want the latest games ported to Mac then they should use an open API that is used on other platforms.
But I am starting to think that maybe ports is not Apple's game... Maybe they want there to be almost only Apple-specific titles on Mac so that people wouldn't compare performance on Mac to that on PC or consoles. Now that they are known mostly for laptops and their desktop machines are also having laptop-grade internals then they are not going to be able to compete on graphics performance anyway.
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Is Vulkan ready yet?
Because Metal has been shipping since iOS 8 and usable now.
Microsoft has their own API but you're not crying foul about DirectX
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Apple hasn't cared about games for a long time.
Yeah, that's why they constantly bring out more games-related APIs - because they just don't care. And looking at how many iOS Apps use them, neither do the developers. [/sarcasm]
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*yawn* who cares.... Thought the apple music presentation was pretty terrible not even remotely excited about it.
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I mean when you have FREE services out there why would you spend 15 bucks a month?
Didnt they learn from Jay-Z???
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Where are the free legal equivalents that don't have adverts?
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An alternative should be comparable. Ad-supported and subscription-based are pretty different types of services catering to different kinds of consumers. It was you who moved to goalposts by stating competitors that were quite different.
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"legally? pandora, spotify and many many others. then there are torrents"
Neither Pandora nor the free tier of Spotify allow you to create your own playlist of songs.
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apple is aware of this place called the internet right????
I mean when you have FREE services out there why would you spend 15 bucks a month?
Didnt they learn from Jay-Z???
Better notify Spotify. To the batphone Robin
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So it's either $10 per person if you're single with only one pay check or $2.50 to $7.50 per person if you're a family with possibly two incomes.
Dear JealousSingleMan, I'll adopt you for $50 a year, so you can qualify for the family plan. Think of the savings!
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For that $50/year do I also get half my mortgage paid, access to a second car when needed, contribution to electricity, gas and water supplies and the cats fed when I'm away for the weekend?
Lets face it, someone else could move into my home and expect me to pay for their life and it'd barely register on my gross monthly outgoings.
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Try having kids.
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This is disgusting.
In what way?
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"In what way?"
Because NFC was cool only when Europeans had it, but nobody else did. A US company supporting it makes it evil and corporate.
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Disgusting? Compared to what? The billion of locations that support credit card payment?
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"Only AMD Macs" would mean they would need to drop support for the Mac mini, most MacBooks and even some iMacs.
But yeah, if there's one thing they didn't say, it was which hardware was going to be left behind with "El Capitan". I'm pretty sure my old Core 2 Duo, nVidia 320m Mac mini isn't going to be on the list of supported hardware.
Re:Yes, but what will you need to run that crap? (Score:5, Informative)
The OS X v10.11 Developer Beta supports the following Macs:
iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
Xserve (Early 2009)
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+1 informative
Also, I'm glad my old Mac mini is still supported! (mid-2010 model)
Re:Yes, but what will you need to run that crap? (Score:4, Informative)
They specifically said that iOS 9 will support all the same hardware as 8
Re:Yes, but what will you need to run that crap? (Score:5, Interesting)
Imagine that, a phone introduced in September 2011, still getting updates....