“It’s become a truly distinct experience. It’s not an iPhone experience. It’s not a Mac experience. The name is a recognition of that.”
Music to iPad fans’ ears…
Jason Snell (@jsnell) on why Catalyst apps might be good for…
”Basically, the better the iPad app, the better the Mac app. This has some fun ramifications, because it implies that Catalyst may actually prompt developers to put more work into the iPad versions of their apps, too. iPad and Mac users can all benefit from that.”
Here’s what excited me about the WWDC keynote today. The iPad Pro lifestyle just got more feasible.
My favourite sort of Apple keynote: I have no strong desire to buy anything new as a result of it, but I know all my devices will get better in the autumn. Result.
All in all, that feels like Apple worked its way through a big old list of things people have been complaining about for years, and got pretty much all of it done.
iOS13 supported devices:
“New software features will be available this fall as a free software update for iPhone 6s and later, and will be available with iPadOS for iPad Air 2 and later, all iPad Pro models, iPad 5th generation and later, and iPad mini 4 and later.”
I love it when they do these developer-specific sections in the WWDC keynotes. I mean, they mean nothing to journalists like me, but there’s something cool about making consumer tech journos sit through this…
Uh. The demo fail on the new iPad selection gestures is not encouraging… The guy’s clearly nervous as heck, but still.
And there we have it - both external drive support on iPad, and the ability to import files traight into a particular app.
Oh, fabulous. Multi-user support for HomePods is great news. Our living room HomePods get a huge amount of use - and it’ll be great to have my Apple Music profile with fewer My Little Pony tracks on it…
Oh, wow. That’s a big upgrade on iOS photo editing. But that video editing is even more exciting. That’ll make the #mojo people very happy.