The dude who helped doing the Messages app presentation sounded a little salty. Haha! A first, because usually Apple presentations are drenched in pointless overexaggerations of how awesome and beautiful and fantastic their apps are, and here's this guy. Haha. Wonder if Tim had words with him afterwards, or if it was all pre-arranged. You know, I bet it was on purpose, because they never leave anything to chance.
Apple Watch news probably interested me the most, because as a device it needs the most work. As it stands currently, it's an OK device. It's a little clunky, a little quirky, and sometimes really rather friggin slow, unfortunately. Many of the changes to watchOS are really great, and will help to make the watch the device it should have been from day one (except, you never actually know on day one what your device should be on day one... *ahem*)
I wonder where glances went if up-swipe on the watchface brings up notification center. Sideways from there for glances? *shrug* I mostly use glances for weather tho so with the activities watchface I suppose I could replace the activities widget with weather, if it fits. Apple is a bit too constrictive with how people get to configure their watchfaces, IMO. I guess I'll have to wait for more details of how it will work.
The unlocking of your macbook by wearing the watch is just mindblowing. What I've heard rumors of said the feature would use touch ID, so I was thinking I would have to dig out my phone and fiddle, but... Damn. I wonder if this will work on Macs that don't have BT 4.0 or better, because mine is too old for that. I would guess "no", but I remain hopeful!
No talking about Safari this year. Well, there's still the autumn presentation. Maybe there's still stuff coming on that front - I am most interested in tab grouping like IE had, and MS subsequently dropped with edge. Colored tab groups do wonders for screen ergonomics. It was a great feature, I loved it. Every fucking tab being a drab grey really gets my goat. Also, safari won't always open new tabs next to the tab that spawned it. That creates further confusion. The browser really needs some work on this front, I'd say. Oh, and no tooltips for hovering a link is a huge annoyance too. Sometimes you want to know what site a link points to without needing to click it. Toggling on the status bar is clunky, because most of the time it is just an empty grey bar blocking a part of the screen for little or no reason. Tooltips are such basic functionality, it's another of those Mac niggles that should have been solved but get overlooked time and time again despite being "the world's most advanced" OS. *sigh*
Oh well. Pretty interesting presentation on the whole, anyway.
