Apple's Global Developer Conference (WWDC) will start next week – but if I tell myself the truth, I'm working hard to take care of it. I used to be eager to watch these shows that new good things will appear on my Mac next year. But in recent years, many features have emphasized either falling into a bucket marked “Wait, you can't do it?” or a bucket marked “OK, that's it no One thing I am To use. ”
This doesn't help the rumored announcement this year, and it's mostly because I know I don't need to interact with it. The biggest rumor is a vision-inspired UI overhaul to align iPhone, iPad, and Mac with their youngest siblings. Consistency is a good thing, but Apple reportedly makes the change justified by saying that the situation of switching between platforms. I can't say I've ever had a problem, and what I'm worried about is that Apple will forget that these devices are different and operate differently from the stable ones.
If the promise is made frequently, you no longer believe it will be fulfilled. With nothing, Apple will make the iPad more useful as a productivity tool. Rumors suggest that Slate will get better multitasking and application window management to make it even more grand. But, unless iPados gets fundamental changes that make it work more like MacOS, nothing will change. And I doubt Apple will bring the iPad's true multitasking to Mac sales, not to mention the limitations of its form factor.
As someone who is indifferent to generating AI and voice assistants, tweaking Apple Intelligence, Siri makes me equally cold. I'm not sure if I would want a pattern recognition algorithm that writes messages and emails in my voice. I also don't like the idea of creating images using Generate AI. I would rather stay in the real world. Of course, I'm a young man yelling on the clouds and I don't care.
According to Apple, I'm obviously a minority because the only time I interacted with Siri was accidental. All I can think of is that typing and operating my phone is much faster, and I shouted, “Hey Siri, my living room lights are 50% lower”, so the jog of the speech annoyed me. Of course, I love a virtual assistant who is as skilled and imaginative as a flesh and blood who can use all my data elements, organize and keep my pace. But I don't believe we are close to this, and Apple has failed to deliver on its promise in this area.
The only rumored feature that got me excited was the “AI-driven” battery management mode for iOS 19 (as rumored). I say “AI Driver” because I'm not sure how much of the sold algorithm we need to track your usage patterns for power saving tuning. But if it can make meaningful improvements to the lifespan of the iPhone, then this may make sense.
After all, as a relatively heavier iPhone user, I rarely find my device lasting until the end of the day without charging. This is not a new problem either, as the iPhone battery has been boring since its first launch in 2007. In this world, most Android phones boast about multi-day battery life, so the iPhone's battery life is still embarrassing. Yes, you can think of it as a rumored thin iPhone air not too subtle digging, and to me it's like the most shocking waste of development resources imaginable.
Maybe it's a sign of my subconscious frustration with Apple that I had to push forward instead of sorting out behind it. Last year, I was very concerned about the company's features in GarageBand, which is very concerned about the addition of voice notes. I just hope Apple does things with Snow Leopard in 2009 and with High Sierra in 2017. In both cases, the company chose to focus on sorting out existing code to make it smaller and run faster, rather than overscaling itself with new features. To me, this seems to make better use of Apple's time than repainting the home screen with Snazzier Icons.
