It still needs a bit of refinement, and I’d dearly love a slightly more logical way of dividing your time between the main Home Screen and the ‘Up Next’ section, but it has come on leaps and bounds in recent years. TvOS itself isn’t a bad operating system. Regular readers will know that I’ve recently dived wholeheartedly into the world of the Apple TV, and I’m very much enjoying the experience. They can’t let us down again, can they? tvOS 16 Final Cut Pro will do for starters, but glimpses at what might be on the horizon with the likes of Logic Pro and Xcode will give us all hope that the iPad isn’t simply the Mac’s cool-but-inexperienced younger sibling. Redesign the Home Screen to give us the ‘it’s not a computer’ experience you keep teasing. Make it possible for more than one person to share the same iPad with their own preferences and app access. Let us decide how many apps we want to have open at once and where we want to place them. It is, I’m afraid, still just a slightly bigger version of iOS. I want iPadOS to ‘grow a pair’ and remove itself from the ties of iOS. More importantly, iPadOS fails to make use of the copious amounts of power contained within every iPad you can buy today. The Home Screen makes laughably poor use of the screen estate on offer. Multitasking remains inherently undiscoverable and teeth-itchingly fiddly when you accidentally bump into it. If Apple ditched every other announcement and focused the entirety of the WWDC keynote on iPadOS, I’d be a very happy man.Įnough is enough. I just can’t think what that might look like, or what’s currently broken that needs fixing. Some more interesting wallpaper wouldn’t go amiss, either.Īpple might surprise us, of course this could be the year of a huge iOS update. I’d love to have some form of useful newsfeed when swiping right from the Home Screen (as Android does so brilliantly). I’d love ‘jiggle mode’ to be made 100% less irritating. This is fine – I have no problem with Apple simply fettling their mobile operating system every year we’ve reached a point where smartphones are such capable devices that it’s hard to think of any seismic leaps forward that would make a difference to everyday life. This year, iOS 16 will probably be granted the usual visual refresh, minor tweaks, and improvements to widget functionality. It’ll never be as customisable as Android, nor will the Home Screen ever receive any significant updates. I’m going to stir a few feathers and suggest that iOS isn’t in a particularly bad place at the moment. But boy is it going to be a popcorn moment. We’ll hear about teraflops, biblical core counts, and more power-per-watt efficiency than you can shake a tin of thermal paste at.įor most of us, it’ll be a Mac whose power we’ll never have the budget, need, or expertise to experience. It will be a numbers porn fest, with Apple mercilessly throwing shade at the PC competition. What I’m pretty sure we will see during the WWDC keynote is the first glimpse of the refreshed, Apple Silicon-powered Mac Pro. And if you’re still holding out hope for a big M1 iMac, I think you’ll be sorely disappointed. Any updates to the MacBook Pro are also likely to wait until later this year. I don’t think we’ll see a new MacBook Air or a revised Mac mini. But we’re living in rather different times, and with 2022 being the year of the full transition to Apple silicon across the entire Mac product line, I’m confident we’ll see something on June 6th. When I say “steer clear of as many rumours as possible”, there’s one rumour mill which is nigh-on impossible to avoid: potential new Apple hardware.Īpple’s World Wide Developer Conference is primarily geared towards operating system and software announcements.
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