Apple's 2015 WWDC - Playing catchup, I vote I like the idea for Mac OS Ten Eleven and iOS9

[sekker]

Was traveling, just got caught up with details.

No new hardware, but I think it was a good announcement. A music service my family will probably subscribe as a family, and potentially the most stable releases of iOS (including split screen options for my iPads) and Mac OS X. If these are SL redeux, then we will be VERY happy.

I could see Apple settling on these as reference releases; maybe require new hardware for OS Ten Twelve.

I know - no sticky, etc.

Did I miss something here? Is the issue that there was no flash and only substance?

[silvarios]

There was the ridiculous puff piece about how Apple is doing things as amazing as the entirety of the Industrial Revolution, but otherwise lot of content, and a whole factor less marketing glitz.

I, as well, like the idea of making the updated OSes work really well, and polishing all those features added the last eight years. I don't know why anyone would subscribe to a music service that only works on one brand of product, so completely no interest for me personally. Another positive point, Apple seems to have dropped the requirement of paying for a developer license just to develop and test apps, while simultaneously combining all the app deployment licenses to a single license (Mac, iOS, and watch), costing a mere $99 annually. That's actually pretty darn cool.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

silvarios wrote:
There was the ridiculous puff piece about how Apple is doing things as amazing as the entirety of the Industrial Revolution

While I also scoff at the overall hyperbole inherent in that claim, Apple Pay is in fact going to fundamentally change how the world conducts credit- and debit-card transactions. It's already happening.

[GGD]

silvarios wrote:
I don't know why anyone would subscribe to a music service that only works on one brand of product, so completely no interest for me personally.

You might have missed that they will be supporting Android too.

As a member, you get the entire Apple Music experience on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. Apple Music is coming to Apple TV and Android this fall.

http://www.apple.com/music/membership/

[silvarios]

GGD wrote:
You might have missed that they will be supporting Android too.

As a member, you get the entire Apple Music experience on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. Apple Music is coming to Apple TV and Android this fall.

http://www.apple.com/music/membership/

I did! Thanks. That's more interesting. No iTunes, just the streaming part? I really wish Apple would open up as much as possible. I use iWork online stuff for creating simple documents, but syncing isn't directly supported on Android (nor any other mobile OS, I don't think).

[GGD]

Are the cell phone companies the real winners in all of these streaming music services, getting to sell more GBs of data each month?

[RAMd®d]

I enjoyed it too.

Lots of good stuff, nothing bad.

I watched the Apple stream and the MacBreak Weekly stream. It's fun to see Andy Ihantko correct Leo Laporte on just about everything.

Unfortunately, Rene Ritchie was at the Keynote and not the MBW broadcast so he couldn't help Andy explain to Leo what was going on.

I'm looking forward to iOS9 and El Capitan. The latter name is pretty telling.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I like to tell the story of how I beat out Andy Ihantko at a Mac trivia contest at Macworld 2003. True story - dmann was there and can back me up.

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silvarios wrote:
There was the ridiculous puff piece about how Apple is doing things as amazing as the entirety of the Industrial Revolution

I was similarly scoffing at Gutenberg. Yes, I am that old.

I don't know why anyone would subscribe to a music service that only works on one brand of product

Nope. Mac, iOS, PC, Android. What else are you looking for?

[silvarios]

Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=silvarios]
There was the ridiculous puff piece about how Apple is doing things as amazing as the entirety of the Industrial Revolution

I was similarly scoffing at Gutenberg. Yes, I am that old.
What?

Article Accelerator wrote:

I don't know why anyone would subscribe to a music service that only works on one brand of product

Nope. Mac, iOS, PC, Android. What else are you looking for?

And by PC, you mean via iTunes right? The big deal here is Android, and the point was already covered. That's a pretty big deal because Apple does not usually support Android.