Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

oh shit, gamechanger

actually interested in this wwdc keynote for once

I'm vaguely interested because it seems like a moment where something interesting *has* to happen?

although right now they're telling developers about how great their original streaming video content is going to be so we're not off to a good start

multiuser TvOS is good. Goodbye Horrid Henry, Goodbye Gardener's World

this is really starting at trundle pace for something that was meant to pack in a whole lot of shit

I get that these talks are widely viewed outside of the developer community but ranting on about first-party app features on existing hardware without mentioning new APIs they're using seems like a complete waste of developer time

I will never enable dark mode on anything and you can't make me

love how close to parody these presentations skew

why stet? I'm exactly the opposite I will never disable it.

not me! I'm a dark mode stan myself

oh sorry meant silby!

dark mode is essential it saves my eyes

ok, the email masking stuff is good but more of a cloud service offering. nice to have it built in

I just don't care for it, seems silly

I also have the system text size slider all the way to the left tho so apparently I don't care about my eyes in general

imo the best not caring about eyes would be using dark mode 24/7, even outdoors

dark mode is good, it makes it like you are in a secret cave

If I'm gonna be in a secret cave I want muted warm light and like a comic book

iPad OS is fixing a whole lotta shit for me

I also have the system text size slider all the way to the left tho so apparently I don't care about my eyes in general

multiple docs side-by-side is huge for me. And direct Lightroom import

i don't like dark mode because it doesn't feel like an apple os. feels like windows or some shit like linux that i don't understand

Yeah DM meshes all my open windows into a black mass which looks great but makes it a little hard to distinguish them visually

NEW MAC PRO klaxon

it's full of holes

RIP my iPhone 6.

some not-fuckin-around max specifications on this thing

anyway someone post it on the trypophobia thread

Do we have to wait til fall for these iOS update goodies?

Oh it’s my old G5 tower!

I like this new screen. I like wheels!

well, they did it, they delivered a fuck-off video and audio editing machine

Mac Pro starts at $6k

$4999 for the screen, fucking hell, $5999 for the matte. And the stand is another grand FUCK

how much for the Mac Pro wheels? HOW MUCH FOR WHEELS?

curious to hear what the maxed out price is, i'm guessing 8999

maxed out is going to be way north of that. the Xeon 28-core alone is $8k

$23,999.

“Apple said that when a device is offline and sleeping, it sends out a secure Bluetooth beacon that can be detected by other Apple devices nearby, even the ones owned by other people. This results in a network that works to find lost Apple devices through a secure, encrypted, and anonymous signal relay.”
This is weird...widescale mainstream mesh

Looks like they finally have a solution in place of the online store saying “we’ll be back soon”

curious to hear what the maxed out price is, i'm guessing 8999

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, June 3, 2019 1:57 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haven't done it for a few years but a friend and I would jokingly max out the top-end system on the website back when Mac Pros were a running thing with regular updates and, even without RAID you could hit $10k reliably

That Minecraft VR demo though ...

yeeks

SwiftUI will be such an improvement to my average, daily quality of life that I almost broke down.

page updated: https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

so the weird expansion thing (MPX) is basically a way to throw the power connection for the video card along with more connection points to the bus on to the motherboard in a straight line instead of dropping more wires through the case and the card they're sourcing from AMD is using their specialty chip-to-chip bus, which isn't an apple-specific thing necessarily

no idea wtf Afterburner is, because "programmable ASIC" is general enough to mean it could do lots of things depending on what kind of basic instructions it allows. looks like their first-party video editing will be using some sort of API to interact with it, and it'll be interesting to see if they open it up

xp I did shed some tears of sympathy for the iOS developers watching that. hope it makes life less bad, Elvis!

Can you explain SwiftUI in terms a dyed-in-the-wool Objective-C/IB-before-storyboards relic can understand?

from one screenshot it looks like declarative nested frames as code, ie the only way I can imagine actually ever learning to program a GUI

Gonna need to watch Platforms SoTU in a minute.

Meanwhile pls excuse stroughton smith tweet but MOUSE ON IPAD

Hello mouse support on iOS 13! It’s an AssistiveTouch feature, and works with USB mice. @viticci nailed this pic.twitter.com/nj6xGAKSg0

— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) June 3, 2019

I’m getting this now I think; it’s really nice. Like having bindings back again, for one thing.