Apple at WWDC
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Apple has made dramatic changes to the look of the iPhone and the rest of its products in a set of sweeping software updates.
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iPad looking a lot like a Mac.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/the-ipad-just-got-a-lot-more-like-a-mac/
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@wtg are you an Apple fan?
For work, I use Windows, but my devices are iPhone and iPad. We got our current iPhones (Pro Max model) in 2021, they work fine (although my battery life isn't great). I really don't want to replace them any time soon -_-
@ShiroKuro said in Apple at WWDC:
@wtg are you an Apple fan?
Not particularly. I actually don’t like the Mac OS but that may just be lack of familiarity. I use Windows for heavy lifting, a low end iPad for browsing and some posting here, and a minimal cheap Android phone on which I make phone calls and send texts.
I’m actually a pretty low tech person compared to most.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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@ShiroKuro said in Apple at WWDC:
@wtg are you an Apple fan?
Not particularly. I actually don’t like the Mac OS but that may just be lack of familiarity. I use Windows for heavy lifting, a low end iPad for browsing and some posting here, and a minimal cheap Android phone on which I make phone calls and send texts.
I’m actually a pretty low tech person compared to most.
@wtg said in Apple at WWDC:
I actually don’t like the Mac OS but that may just be lack of familiarity.
This is what I suspect about myself.
I use Windows for heavy lifting
Same. I actually used a Mac around 1995, worked in a digital cartography lab and did a lot of stuff that you couldn’t do back then on the windows platform. But I switched to PC not long after I went to Japan, probably around 1996-97. And have used it ever since. Now I’ve used the Windows OS for so long, I know how to do what I need, I use it for all my work stuff, data analysis, teaching prep… If I wanted to change, it would be a frustrating experience of re-learning a lot of that.
But I love my iPhone and iPad. I got my first iPad in 2011, and very quickly shifted all my sheet music onto the iPad. Then in 2021, I got the larger sized iPad Pro (with an Apple Pencil). I love it for music and don’t do that much else on it, besides browsing and forum-izing.
I’m also really happy with my iPhone (larger sized one) and will probably be cranky about having to switch when it’s time to update, and because I’ve had this model for so long, the jump will feel pretty significant. Also, they’re too damned expensive. My< my husband and my mother (I bought hers) all got these phones at the same time, and they’re all paid off right now. (Another motivation not to upgrade). The next time we get new phones, I want us not to get them all at once!
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Front eh article @wtg posted:
reacts dynamically to movement using real-time rendering
Hmm, I wonder what that means. If it’s similar to what the iPad does when you’re on FaceTime or Zoom, where it tracks your movement, it will be really annoying.
The new design will be implemented in buttons, sliders, media controls and larger elements such as tab bars and sidebars, along with matching redesigned toolbars and navigation.
This is interesting, I wonder if it’s because as the flat design UI has progressed, things sometimes have gotten harder to find.
