---In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, <lwr32@...> wrote :
> Did anyone watching the Keynote? What do you think of iOS 13 from what you've learned so
> far?
I watched multitasking so may have missed some elements.
I watched multitasking so may have missed some elements.
Most of what I saw both new and changed appeared to be change for its own sake. Photos for example is different. There is no clear improvement to me. Its just different so we'll have a learning curve with no performance improvement at the end.
Apple sign-in is clearly playing catch up with Facebook and Google. It worries me. Yet another repository of private information with publicly available APIs. The shuck and jive of one-time and obscured email addresses is all very nice. Our experience with subversions of big data is pretty clear. This is a risk with no meaningful benefit to the user, only to Apple.
Dark Mode is the most interesting bit for me. My use case is a niche so I think the value will be less for most people. In my case, operating boats and yachts where visual night adaptation is import, I suspect Dark Mode will be an aid. I am of course dependent on apps I use implementing Dark Mode: Aqua Maps, Charts & Tides, Calendar, Waterway Guide, a few others.
Also from WWDC, Apple will be deprecating iTunes. At one time iTunes was an effective iDevice manager. We lost sync between Outlook Notes and iOS Notes. Then we lost app management so instead of keeping up to date with big screens, adult keyboards, and a mouse we had to use Chiclet virtual keyboards. Now iTunes is being disassembled into separate apps so we lose any integration on the desktop.
I fully understand that Apple thinks they are keeping up with the trend toward cloud storage and streaming services. I believe they are doing a poor job of it. Further, the technical community in places like Cupertino, Mountain View, and Redmond have lost their grip on any connection to people who don't have broadband connections and big screens and company-paid phone accounts with unlimited data. What about those of us who sometimes (or often, or always) have skinny pipes to the Internet. Netflix and Amazon are again ahead of Apple by seeing that streaming services don't obviate the need to download media in its entirety. Not everyone may be hundreds of miles offshore days from Internet but many people fly. Many people live in rural areas. Many people have data caps on their cellular plans. Apple doesn't get that.
Apple would be well served to send their software team leads and certainly their testing people to somewhere like Coinjock NC for a couple of months. They'd probably double the population.
dave
Annapolis MD
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