I’ve been traveling so I missed most of #WWDC and now I’m catching up. So here are my belated hot takes.
Liquid glass looks like a usability disaster. Everyone has commented this already, I’ll spare you.
Feels like Stage Manager is dead. Did anyone actually use it?
iPad improvements look great. Files, multitasking, Preview, audio source selection. It’s almost like a basic Mac. Where’s the terminal and where is multiuser support?
Preview on iPad hopefully means that someone will actually fix the bugs Preview has been accumulating over the years of being abandoned on macOS.
visionOS changes don’t make a dent in the viability of the product. PS controllers are great for the games that don’t exist.
Access to local AI models is huge for developers. The cost of doing inference drops to zero, meaning everyone can do it at scale. This was obvious and expected, but still a very big deal.
Container framework and app is awesome. Great to see investment in this kind of tech. Is that a custom launchd, er, systemd clone in swift?
Another try at game center. I’m sure this time it will work out.