I want to like Apple. I've been a Mac user since 1993. I've had an iPhone since the iPhone 4S. I had an iPod, albeit an HP version because it was on clearance for a good price with maximum storage. They're doing good things with ARM-based System on a Chip designs.
I didn't watch the WWDC keynote. I looked at MacRumors here and there for relevant information. Since Apple doesn't announce hardware at WWDC, it is interesting, but just.
They're introducing Liquid Glass to all operating systems. It's what they've been using in VisionOS. It reminds me of what they did with Aqua when Mac OS X was being created. Every progress bar and button had a rhythm and they had depth. The eye candy was tough on systems so they kept smashing it until they stopped using it.
Now, there are Apple Silicon SoCs that have enough power. woohoo. However, you can disable it in the beta test release.
For the record, I'd really appreciate if they took care of all the !@#$ bugs first. The Adobe way of software development isn't critical. Then again, the thin-is-everything design isn't either. Adding new functionality before you get the previous functionality to a stable point is risky because there is a good chance that you'll never find the problems.
They've introduced Foundation Models Framework, a set of APIs to allow access to Apple Intelligence (whatever that may comprise at the time) for integration into applications. They're still not ready with Personalized Siri, but whatever.
I remember posting on MacRumors that I would wait for iOS 20.7.1 (I was running 16.7.1 at the time) for Apple Intelligence to be ready and working. Now that they've flipped the numbers up to 26, I guess I can't get that. What I thought would be three major releases later to be a safe, working release with AI. We'll see if 28.7.1 will be safe.
Oh, macOS Tahoe is the last release for Intel-based hardware. Maybe, they can clear out some of the crap and code more effectively for the next release.
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