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Apple is good at making stuff. I admire their restraint and focus. I wished they made more stuff. Specifically, I want Tim Cook to come on stage and announce the iWash. A washer and dryer completely reimagined by Apple. Ideally this would gather, wash, dry, fold and properly file my kids close.
 
I'll probably have to settle for a redesigned operating system for my iMac.
 
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Trautwein's Degree said:
Apple is good at making stuff. I admire their restraint and focus. I wished they made more stuff. Specifically, I want Tim Cook to come on stage and announce the iWash. A washer and dryer completely reimagined by Apple. Ideally this would gather, wash, dry, fold and properly file my kids close.
 
I'll probably have to settle for a redesigned operating system for my iMac.
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Maybe they should try to get speech recognition right first?
 
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I don't expect any iPhone 6 news and really doubt we get any iPad news either. WWDC is usually very light on hardware news.
 
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I'm guessing they'll bring that addition of widgets to the today view in Notification Center to iOS 8 as well.
 
I don't generally find widgets to be very useful personally, but I know that's something people have complained iOS lacks.
 
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This MailDrop thing sounds really cool. Being able to send email attachments of any size is really a convenient feature.
 
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Thank god. Airdrop working between mac and iOS. 
 
This continuity feature is really something pretty incredible.
 
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Nice to see a lot of OSX incremental upgrades, and nice to see that there is *nothing* in OSX Yosemite so far that speaks to use of a touchscreen.
 
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This is just an amazing amount of integration between an iPhone and a mac. 
 
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MailDrop is interesting - I wonder what the file limit will be and how it'll work if mailing to another client like Outlook.
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They said the limit is 5 GB.
 
I would guess it embeds as weblink for non-Apple mail clients?
 
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Yosemite release set for fall and will be FREE.
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Public beta program this summer too apparently. That's an interesting development.
 
Cook talking about iOS 8 now.
 
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Great points in that most Windows Desktop and Android users are not on the latest release - whereas most iOS and OSX users upgrade
 
...which makes development time focused on new features of Apple OS's a lot easier to decide on than on Windows or Android...
 
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The quick type thing isn't groundbreaking or anything, but it looks like a good implementation of an obvious feature. The predicted responses to the text question seem like a pretty good application they showed off.
 
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The quick type and the responding to texts via the notification are similar to things I loved about Blackberry 10 - nice to see them here
 
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showing theri SnapChat competitors stuff now, which given their history of mimicking will likely completely suck ass.
 
"If you hold it up to your ear it will autoplay" (65% of the time)   :eek:hlord:
 
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This family shared thing for iTunes account/content looks really well done.
 
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So they're talking about iCloud holding all of your photos now instead of just the most recent ones like it does now. Is that going to use up the limited amount of space that currently goes to email/backups/documents or will it just be an infinite sized photo library?
 
edit: just answered. Uses the iCloud space.
 
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iOS 8 has very little I actually care about, minus direct reply from a locked screen via notifications center. I didn't expect much thankfully.
 
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derekson said:
I'm guessing they'll bring that addition of widgets to the today view in Notification Center to iOS 8 as well.
 
I don't generally find widgets to be very useful personally, but I know that's something people have complained iOS lacks.
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Yep. Looks like apps will be able to add a widget to the iOS notification center in the new iOS SDK.
 
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Funny he showed the Honeywell thermostat. No Nest? 
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I noticed that too. Not really surprising with Google acquiring Nest.
 
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canderson said:
iOS 8 has very little I actually care about, minus direct reply from a locked screen via notifications center. I didn't expect much thankfully.
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So I posted this before the "dev talk". Things got a bit real now.
 
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