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I completely missed Apple's WWDC Keynote. You can watch it here in case you have missed it too.

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Keynote - WWDC24 - Videos - Apple Developer

My personal recap of this keynote

The weird stuff:

Apple reinvents Winterboard theming from iPhoneOS 2
Apple reinvents Android quick settings panel
Apple reinvents PiP on Safari
Apple reinvents tiling windows
Apple Intelligence - I'm a bit sceptical on how capable it will turn out. Also for everyone not living in the US of A it's again envy and waiting. Finally, I can't get my head around it how they won't be losing tons of money. Personal cloud AI sounds expensive as hell.
Even more iMessage _bloat enhancements

The fun stuff:

Skydiving - I'm definitely not too old for this stuff.
Craig, Craig, Craig, Craig
Parcour
Calculator on iPadOS - Err, are we living in 3024 now? World hunger is no more, everyone.
WatchOS workout evaluation

The good stuff:

Math and calculations in iPad Calculator and Notes - This would instantly make me buy an iPad for studies, if I were going to school/university right now
Handwriting x word processor
Your iPhone on your Mac - The seamlaess drag and drop gesture felt a bit like magic.
On device AI - Pretty dope concept. I hope this turns out well.

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One thing to note is that they announced Apple intelligence is only coming to the iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max for their iOS release
- Yeah, it requires an A17 or M1 or higher.
  Also, the beta for this is likely end of summer. So that would mean GM builds will probably be targeting the iPhone 16 launch.
  
  Sure. I just think this might be the first time that the current iPhone would be missing a feature on the next iOS update
  I’d guess most iPhone 15 owners would have assumed their phone was new enough for the feature
  
  Satellite sos was only available on 14 or newer on release, which is even less support for the prior gen than apples intelligence features (which at least supports the pro lineup from the prior gen, as well as every apple silicon Mac released)
  
  I wouldn’t be surprised if they continued to gate it to the “pro” models and the “regular” iPhones never see these features no matter how new. That’s why the 15 pro has an “A17 Pro” chip so the iPhone 16 will have a non-pro chip that can’t do AI stuff
  
  Starting with the iPhone 14, they put the last generation processor in the non-pro and the current generation processor in the pro
  The weird thing here is that the 15 non-pro (the new processor from the 14 gen - A16) has a faster NPU than the M1 processor that does support the AI feature
  The only possible technical reason is because they put such an anemic amount of RAM in their phones. Otherwise it’s entirely an artificial limitation
  Running top of the line models does require a lot of RAM, so it’s not an entirely ridiculous theory.
  The one I run on my desktop needs at least 12 gigs of VRAM

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