I wasn’t available for about a week due to emigrating from The Netherlands to Sweden, so I’ve clearly got some catching up to do when it comes to Apple’s WWDC keynote. Apple detailed iOS 13 for the iPhone, the renamed iPadOS for the iPad, macOS Catalina for the Mac, updates for watchOS and tvOS, and so much more.
I’m not going into great detail on everything here, since you’ve most likely already delved deep into these new releases if you’re interested. I do wish to mention that I’m insanely happy with mouse and multiwindow support for the iPad – it turns my iPad Pro into a very useful and powerful device, and I can’t wait for the first keyboards with built-in trackpad to come onto the scene.
I’ll keep the other big announcement – the new Mac Pro – for a separate item and discussion thread.
So we will mention the $1000 screen stand in another thread.
Went down like a bad smell even amongst the congregation of acolytes. Bad timing, imagine.
Not according to zealots though, the logo itself is worth a pretty penny.
And people think paying 1k for a VR setup like the Valve Index is too much….
So the Dashboard feature (with the calculator and weather app widgets among other things) is being dropped in Catalina and I noticed some comments under the MacRumors article asking if there would be a third-party replacement.
It actually was a replacement for a successful and popular third-party app, Konfabulator. Apple basically copied it, resulting in the original developers having to port it to Windows and eventually sell up to Yahoo. They discontinued it in 2012. I wonder if they’ll bring it back now.
If they do bring it back, maybe Apple will rip it off again?
Embrace, extend and extinguish?
Maybe this time they could make the konfabulator fast? it was always a good 10 second load time for me. Anything useful that were in widgets, I had a faster way of accessing.
Welcome to Sweden, Thom!
I got what I wanted out of it most of all: USB mass storage support! About damn time. I’d worked around that with a Kingston mobile lite g3, but it’ll be nice to have one less device to carry. This was my final complaint when using my iPad as my portable powerhouse for work, not that it stopped me. To have native smb support thrown in on top is just icing on the cake. I guess some top brass at Apple are waking up to what the iPad really could become. It took them bloody long enough, but they finally see what some of us have been able to see for the past several years.
I posted a salient comment on the Mac Pro thread. In short I discussed the move to zsh and removal of Python.