Watch the Apple WWDC21 event livestream here
The next annual WWDC event is here and you can watch the announcements as they happen right here on Shacknews.
As the middle of the year approaches, developers, publishers and tech giants all around the globe are preparing to make their announcements and Apple is no different. This year, Apple’s WWDC event is expected to be a banger and to ensure you don’t miss a moment of the action, make sure you tune in and watch the WWDC21 event livestream right here.
Apple WWDC21 special event livestream
The Apple WWDC 2021 event livestream will begin on June 7 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET. While this is when the livestream kicks off, the entire event is scheduled to last a few days, ending on Friday, June 11.
As for what we can expect from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference for 2021, well our very own Chris Jarrard has put together a helpful guide that sets expectations. Jarrard points out that many individuals are anticipating Apple shedding more light on iOS 15. This is despite the fact Apple released iOS 14.5 in April.
Apple Insider points out consumers are also anticipating more word on Apple Silicon. As Apple Insider puts it, Apple Silicon “lets the company focus on performance and vertical integration across platforms rather than needing to optimize software to work with another company's hardware.” More information on this, which has been long-term transition, would make a lot of sense, especially given this is a developer conference.
Beyond this, there are always rumors and wishes floating around the internet that swing between outlandish and conservative guesses. Regardless of what’s announced at WWDC21, you’ll find it all covered right here. Be sure to stop by the Shacknews Apple page so you don’t miss a thing.
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Anxious to see what SwiftUI 3.0 is all about.
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It’s in worse shape than Swift 1.0 when it came out. I wouldn’t really recommend it for anything but a very basic app. Evening Reading is pushing it and I’ve had to hack around a lot of quirks in the framework. I still have to rely on UIKit quite a bit.
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They did this before apparently. Look at Jony Ive lol.
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Shit, leakers are saying no hardware announcements today :/
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/07/no-hardware-at-wwdc-suggests-leaker/-
Doesn’t hardware usually get announced in September?
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Yeah but as the article states they've shown off hardware at 65% of WWDCs, and everyone is expecting the new Macbook Pros.
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Here lately they've been unveiling new hardware at WWDC aimed at devs and pros, frequently just confirmations of things everyone knows is coming (like the Mac Pro they soft announced years prior)
I think at WWDC 2008 they unveiled the iPhone 3G and at 2017 they unveiled the HomePod but things like AirPods and newer iPhones and much more consumer friendly fare they usually do later.
Big thing this year is there's been these rumors of a new 16" Apple Silicon MacBook Pro that returns things like the function keys and MagSafe and HDMI and stuff. Could be they unveil that today, could be that something delayed it and they won't announce it today.
But yeah overall the whole point of WWDC is developer-focused software announcements and, for the last decade or so, the new n+1 versions of their operating systems.
Also it didn't hit me until just now that prior to Big Sur their point releases were the major annual releases (10.5, 10.6, etc.) and the patches and so forth were the minor numbers (10.5.1, 10.5.2, etc) but they've been using the point releases throughout the year (currently at 11.4) so it'll be macOS 12.0 announced today. Crazy that it took them so long to count to 11.
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They very rarely anymore.
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I turned it on and have no idea wtf was happening at the beginning there
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Facetime meeting links, fucking finally.
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Please do this.
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Deep dish is not best pizza...
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It summarizes your notifications in the morning and groups them together into work, personal, news, etc. I think.
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All this tech and yet Text() can’t be selected in SwiftUI :(
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Hah, they added text selection but only on macOS as best I can tell.
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it's the Levy look
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All this FaceTime stuff is the classic example of how Apple’s tying of software releases to hardware is not optimal. So much of this stuff is just catch-up to features of Zoom, Teams, etc that were shipped ages ago and didn’t require new hardware. Obviously welcome changes that people will use but once yearly feature updates are just very anachronistic
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The maps features are quite nice.
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I made the switch recently, it’s not 100% there, but it’s a more pleasant app to use, and similarly I’m happy to use as little google products as possible.
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Too bad size classes don’t do more to help make apps that work well when multitasking.
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Agreed. It's so much nicer to digest.
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Yeah this all sounds awesome.
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Can't wait to find new stuff to block with my Pihole!
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Who had apple VPN on their bingo card
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At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right.
Do we though?
According to a slew of documents reviewed by the The New York Times, Apple has "ceded control" of its data centers in Guiyang — which is reportedly due to be completed next month — and in the Inner Mongolia region to the Chinese government.
The compromises reportedly occurred in the aftermath of a law passed in 2016 that required all “personal information and important data” collected in China to remain in the country. Subsequently, Apple allegedly moved the iCloud data of its Chinese customers from servers located outside the country to the network of a Chinese state-owned company, known as Guizhou-Cloud Big Data (GCBD). It did this on the advice of its China team, according to the Times, as part of a project known internally as “Golden Gate.” This also allegedly allowed Apple to protect itself from American laws, which forbid US companies from handing over data to Chinese law enforcement.
Apple reportedly butted heads with the Chinese government over encryption, but eventually moved the digital keys that unlock customers' private information from the US to China. Alarmed Apple execs told the Times that the move could "jeopardize customers’ data."
https://www.engadget.com/apple-chinese-government-control-data-131343119.html
America continues to largely have a privacy discussion centered around whether Facebook and Google can send you targeted ads rather than whether governments can get access to your data (something Google and FB tend to fight governments on while Verizon and AT&T just hand it over).-
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well yes that's correct. china is a sovereign entity and privacy is not a thing. that's how you do things in china, is adhere to their wishes.
china doesn't give a fuck. it's a surveillance state, and there's nothing apple or anyone else can do about it. ever. there is no sense to compare china to anything else or razz ANY entity about how they have to do business in china.
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Apple can choose whether to do business in China for lots of profit or they can choose whether privacy is a fundamental human right. They chose the former but want to pretend they chose the latter.
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I don’t know what point you think you’re making. Apple is not obligated to do business in China if doing so violates what they believe is a fundamental human right. It’s a choice they’ve made. The reality is the profit they extract from China is more than enough to overlook these violations which drives a truck through their claim that privacy is a fundamental human right.
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There are some points of view you cannot coherently hold simultaneously. What actually happens is your points of view form a principle stack and at some point you have to provide an explicit ordering of those principles where one takes precedence over the other.
In this case, the principle of maximize corporate profits has been prioritized over the fundamental human right of privacy. I have no doubt some individuals in the company do not agree with this ordering but the company as a whole does. Given that Apple is interested in maximizing corporate profits across the globe it means you can assume privacy is only useful to them up to a very specific point. Right now you can measure how much they value privacy by the yearly profit they make in China as a payment to give up on that principle. You could also think about how much they value privacy and anti tracking as a fundamental human right while taking $10bn+/year from Google to ensure the maximum number of people are pulled into Google’s surveillance network instead of a search engine that prioritizes privacy more.-
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right I just don't think you can actually believe it's a fundamental human right and then give it up if paid enough to.
For comparison, consider that Google has kept trying at various points to consider if/how to launch a version in China that would satisfy the censorship demands of the Chinese government. So far they still have not, seemingly in part because every time news of it leaks employees start a shitstorm (https://theintercept.com/2019/03/04/google-ongoing-project-dragonfly/) since Google long ago cultivated a corporate culture of responsibility ('don't be evil') and giving employees a voice.
Now Apple will of course lambast Google's lack of privacy protections because Google is serving you targeted advertising. Meanwhile Google is the one who actually has yet to build a version of their core product for China because they are uncomfortable with the government's authoritarian demands that infringe on fundamental human rights (in this case speech rather than privacy). Likewise for Facebook. Which is actually worse? Google and Facebook collecting more than they should to serve me ads? Or giving authoritarian governments more control of their populace's speech and easy access to all their personal information? I hate much of what Google and Facebook are doing in a lot of cases but the conversation about privacy is not really oriented correctly and is lumped in with a bunch of other things instead (ex disinformation that FB/Google spreads unchecked)-
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yeah I mean I use all Apple devices instead of Google for the same reason. They provide roughly equal protection from the US government while Apple provides better protection from legal but scummy stuff.
I just think it's important to recognize when we're being played. Apple claims privacy is a fundamental human right, but they don't actually act in that way. We should assume they might make the same set of tradeoffs towards profits when the money in the US is enough to incentivize it. It was easy for them to go hard on privacy because they didn't have an ad business it would impact and they could wage an asymmetric war on a primary competitor who can't easily claim privacy as a priority. But what happens in a few years when Apple's ad network is built out even further?
Everyone is going to laud a new feature like emails can't track you in iOS now with invisible tracking pixels because yeah that shit is out of control. But email newsletters legitimately need to track how many subscribers they have vs how many people are actually opening the mail vs reading to the end, etc. It's not scummy surveillance, it's critical business analytics to understand which customers are getting value and where (the kind of stuff Apple tracks about iOS usage all the time). We'll get good news that now there's a new special Apple SDK for tracking emails safely on Apple's ad network which conveniently lets them start getting a cut of all those email newsletters being opened on iPhones. And oh look yet another search slot in the app store selling targeted ads against my behavior, but I thought that was bad? Etc.-
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This has been the fundamental question in international free trade for a long time. Many companies and economists thought better to trade with China than not. In fact if we trade in a limited fashion with China it will actually make them more liberal over time! Turned out we were wrong. But profits are up.
If you want to make the tradeoff then go ahead, just don't pretend it's a fundamental human right when it's actually contingent on how much money you can be paid to ignore that right.-
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Given Apple's frequently successful moralizing in marketing I actually think they could make a pretty good marketing pitch saying they've moved all their manufacturing out of China and increased wages and improved worker treatment across their supply chain but it will necessitate a price increase but that's ok because it's 'the right thing to do'.
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yeah I assume they don't even have the option right now. It's not like there's sufficient capacity/expertise just sitting around to do iPhone scale in the US and Europe.
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Don't apologize for them. They can choose to hold their "values" that they profess but do not currently demonstrate by not doing business with china. Actions speak louder than words: for Apple money trumps values every time. FB and Google both backed out of China and held at least this value.
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Unindoctrinated people participate in societies that do not match their ideas about fundamental rights all the time. It is typical.
Privacy is a spectrum. They could reasonably believe they're offering Chinese citizens the most privacy they can. Maybe even more privacy than they can get elsewhere. I don't know.
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Everything has tradeoffs. I think most people believe the government needs some ability to solve crimes that will periodically involve searching through private information. In the US we create a bunch of apparatus around this ostensibly governed by laws written by people elected democratically. The government has to get a warrant, a judge has to determine if the request is legal, etc. So when you provide end to end encryption you make this more difficult. Sometimes that's a net good, sometimes it may not be. Facebook has proposed improving their privacy by making all their messaging end to end encrypted and hidden from the government. This obviously creates an opportunity for criminals if there's no way for the government to get access to these communications. Our society has to decide if that's the right set of tradeoffs.
US society has largely decided the set of tradeoffs the Chinese government has made on these subjects are wrong morally and are not the result of democratic choices by the citizenry.
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"At Apple, we really hate Facebook. Fuck Mark Zuckerberg, amirite!?!!"
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⌚ WatchOS summary https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1401965897544200192
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🤸♀️🤸♂️ Apple Health summary https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1401964120002338818
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It's just Apple doing what it said it would never do: become 1990s Microsoft.
Embrace Extend Extinguish: yep. Sometimes they even skip the embrace extend part and just go straight to marketing-based extinguishing.
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i don't agree that this is reprehensible at all.
millions of people who never knew about or had access to this type of feature suddenly have it, and have (what is apparently) a MUCH more polished and useful version than pretty much anyone has ever had before.
TONS of features that used to be 3rd party add-ons are now considered table-stakes for core OS functionality on basically every platform.
if your gonna-get-rich! idea was a virtual KVM program that people were going to pay money for... uhhhh, sorry?
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I don't understand how it's better than automator. Just different UI?
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Speaking as a designer and illustrator who creates work on an iPad Pro and shares it with his Mac, back and forth dozens of time a day, this feature will totally transform my workflow.
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Wait, it didn't?! That's nuts. I am using AirServer right now to play a pod to my PC via AirPlay. This app has apparently existed for a few years.
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Nope. You had to buy an app for MacOS devices too.
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Do a lot of people use Safari? I am just so happy with FF but those tab groups are pretty cool.
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Yeah I do, I switched from chrome to safari for day to day use. Still use chrome for dev work tho. Using the same browser across all my platforms is really neat.
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Yeah, I wouldn't mind trying it out but I already have bookmarks for Safari from my iPhone, but all the rest are on FF. Not sure how to combine them.
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Ok, i'll check it out.
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This is me as well - I really want to use safari but eventually some weirdass thing pushes me back to chrome.
Ironically Safari might be better off if they used Blink/Chromium (ironic since those are based off of WebKit originally before forking) but it might destroy whatever performance/memory benefit they’d have. Plus they’d have to kiss and make up with Google. They’d probably use Firefox’s engine before they’d do that.
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I don't on macos mostly because extensions aren't the same. I do on ios though.
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Well it’s the only browser engine on iOS sooo
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Yea, it works fine with a proper adblock.
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Yes, the performance and low power consumption and ability to transfer all of my tabs, history, etc between devices. Can’t be beat.
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100% of home browsing is in Safari. It's generally faster and has much better battery life than chrome, and the integration between devices (and with autofilling even from text messages on my phone getting a two-factor text showing up instantly in safari on my mac) really can't be beat.
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I always have at least 20 tabs open :(
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the xcode cloud presentation says that it will build, and run tests on every kind of apple computer - so it's more than just the github thing. this time, they are offering you different kinds of hardware, etc -
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Damn theyre adding a lot of stuff. The screen sharing is probably the coolest thing they finally added. Tech helpdesks across the world rejoice.
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Woohoo, native pull to refresh in SwiftUI 3.0!!!
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Also search, badges, control of focus, good stuff.
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I wonder why someone would choose to stay on 14?
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Will the auth keys be transferrable between devices?
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They kinda sorta do that when devices get cut off - my iPad Air 1 that got cut off at iOS 12 (so, no iPadOS 13 for me) still gets minor updates for bad security flaws.
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Interesting for #1. Microsoft’s is just too handy I don’t see myself moving
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It sure as heck looks like it so I assume so.
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| Apple Zoom
| Apple Android notifications
| Apple Google Lens
| Apple Google Photos
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Apple really should decouple apps from OS so that they can iterate more aggressively.
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I think that's how they maintain quality because their test burden is greatly reduced.
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Missed this. Did they make the sleep tracking any better?
Current version is embarrassingly bad. It has to be triggered in advance and gives almost no data. Fitbit does laps around them in that front—has sleep auto detect, gives detailed reports and scores.
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They added more features but I don’t think they improved what you’re talking about.
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