Apple WWDC 2024

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Summary

Apple’s WWDC was mostly bad. The new UI looks like a bad jailbreak from years ago. They had some good iPad stuff like the calculator, but Apple Intelligence worries me because you don’t know where your information goes. Overall lackluster.

Raw

So Apple had their WWDC conference where they come up with new software that OS is and so on. And one thing that struck me is how bad it was.

Now, I know I complain a lot, but I complained for the sake of the community. I don’t complain because I just like to complain. But their UI that they’re changing, there’s like a dark mode. It just makes no sense. It actually looks silly. It looks so childish.

It looks like the gel-broken iPhones of yesteryear. Remember when you used to, not a lot of people know, but you used to be able to download a gel break for your phone where you could install different apps and customise it. Actually looks like a bad version of that.

Now, it’s not all doom and gloom, because they did have some really good stuff, some stuff for the iPad, for instance, like the calculator on the iPad at last, but you could write and do lots of things with. There’s lots of UI tweaks. There’s this Apple Intelligence, which I’m not a fan of AI. I like to do things myself. We’re kind of forced into AI doing certain things for us.

If you can turn it off, that will definitely be something I’ll be doing. But it really depends on what’s happening on the back end, because I don’t want everyone touching my information. Adobe caused havoc late last week when they said that everything that you do with an Adobe product, they will keep and they can use and they own. It’s just crazy. I think they’ve backpedaled it.

But the problem with AI is that you don’t know who’s got your information, who’s actually using your information. Someone made a video saying, if something’s in my closet, it’s in my filing cabinet, you, the software companies, shouldn’t have any reason to go anywhere near it. The problem with AI is software and tech companies that use AI is that you don’t know where that software is, that information is going.

So it would be interesting to see what’s actually happening in the back end of this Apple intelligence thing. Let me know what you think of the conference if you watched it. It was lackluster. They’re all starting to look stale now.

Anyway, that’s my take of it. I’m going to go and walk with Woof!. Can you see him? Yeah, he’s there. And I see you tomorrow. Ciao. Bye. Thank you.