Discussion

• @patrickc Patrick Collison on x

  Are M1 Macs yielding a brief and golden window of highly-responsive UIs, where frameworks and libraries haven't yet had enough time to compensate with additional overhead?

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  Gurman: iOS 16 to Feature ‘Significant’ Improvements to Notifications, New Health-Tracking Features, But No Major Redesign https://www.macrumors.com/... // Ugh notification redesign. Notifications don't need a redesign, they need to be gone by default. Ducks. Let me defend/rant..…

• @viticci Federico Viticci on x

  I wouldn't be surprised to see the following: - Windows-style ‘snap’ multitasking for areas of the screen - Better integration between Spotlight (⌘Space) and multitasking - More than 2 apps in Split View (think: bigger iPads)

• @jasonkneen Jason Kneen on x

  @MacRumors @SamiFathi_ As vague as ever as always. I'm predicting iOS 17 will improve health features, widgets, notifications, iCloud, photos, built-in apps. https://twitter.com/...

• @viticci Federico Viticci on x

  Two interesting tidbits from @markgurman's newsletter today: - macOS 13 is codenamed ‘Rome’ (hi!) - “But there might be a new iPadOS multitasking interface” Apple: you have my attention on both sides. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  13/ Core problem is a good feature is one where the defaults work for 90% of the people and customization works but is not an ongoing management problem. Today notifications are essentially useless at best, spam at worst for 90% and an ongoing headache for 10%.

• @viticci Federico Viticci on x

  This concludes my 🧵 on the history of iPad multitasking. I'm very curious for this year's WWDC! ☺️

• @viticci Federico Viticci on x

  - Palm-like multi-window ‘cards’ for the app switcher (multiple windows for same app are still confusing) And of course: Real integration with external displays. Support resizable ‘presets’ for apps on monitors, and offer an ‘Extended Home Screen’ mode.

• @markgurman Mark Gurman on x

  - New Macs coming soon-ish, including the new MacBook Air - Internal iOS 16 builds are full of ties to the Apple headset, rOS - iOS 16 to get notifications update, but no redesign. Redesigned iPad app switcher planned - Health and Fitness upgrades coming. https://www.bloomberg.co…

• @samifathi_ Sami Fathi on x

  I get the disappointment that a lack of a redesign with iOS 16 may bring for some, but it's essential to put it in context. The *vast majority* of iOS users are perfectly happy with the current design - the only real calls for a design shake-up are voices from this community. htt…

• @gartenberg Michael Gartenberg on x

  @stevesi Not to mention a slew of “features” that are not inituative (as in able to intuit) by normal humans. iOS has gone from elegant to a mess of code that ships with whatever mostly works. I won't go near a new update until at least two patches are released. Like Windows in 1…

• @viticci Federico Viticci on x

  How many times has iPadOS (née iOS) multitasking changed over the years compared to macOS? Let's take a look. 🧵

• @parkerortolani Parker Ortolani on x

  Instead of a window free for all, I'd love for Apple to just expand the current iPad multitasking system with a ton of new layouts... https://twitter.com/...

• @detroitborg Michael Kukielka on x

  Are we all onboard iMac 24" styling of the new MacBook Air? https://9to5mac.com/...

• @billgates Bill Gates on x

  I recently had a chance to check out some of the latest devices and experiences in augmented reality. It was a lot of fun to see how far the hardware has come. https://twitter.com/...

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  7/ Other end of the spectrum are tech people carefully curating notifications they want. I'm all for this ability, but it's too much effort and ongoing mgmt. It almost discourages new apps. I know new app is going to ask me for permissions. Normal people worry the app won't work.

• @anildash @anildash on x

  @patrickc Yeah, the thing I flagged in the third point here is we'll see apps that *require* Apple Silicon by the end of year. That'll be the sign of the next wave. https://anildash.com/... (Around the time you were born, there was a lot of discussion of RISC vs CISC; it's all re…

• @parkerortolani Parker Ortolani on x

  I do struggle a bit to see what true windowed multitasking would look like on iPad without feeling wildly out of place... all I can really see is a bunch of iPhone apps in a window floating on top of each other...

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  11/ Apps should have no way to ask permission to turn on notifications by just prompting because that just gets abused. And any notification must be fully disclosed in the Settings app, not on a web site too.

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  10/ The origin of being alerted is archaic when you think about it—the phone call. No one wants their phone ringing with a call these days. How about we just say at some point an “install as new phone” would have no notifications at all until you picked what to enable?

• @parkerortolani Parker Ortolani on x

  I love that there's not only a MacBook Pro in this photo, but a BUTTERFLY KEYBOARD one at that https://twitter.com/...

• @viticci Federico Viticci on x

  So where do we go from here? I've been watching this space for a long time. Apple has spent the past decade bringing iPadOS into a ‘macOS, but easier’ state that combines touch (drag and drop) with accessories (Magic Keyboard). There's still work to do...

• @reneritchie Rene Ritchie on x

  Notifications at scale are indistinguishable from interruptions https://twitter.com/...

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  4/ At one end are normal people who could would never bother to venture to settings to try to figure out all of these for one app. Apps tend to default these to the most aggressive views using all the capabilities it is just a lot to change. https://twitter.com/...

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  14/ iOS is in a space we're not used to being in with Apple products, which is futzing, complexity, and customization required. Focus feature is a meta-level band-aid of notification futzing that shouldn't exist. Notifications need a first principles approach. Please. //END

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  3/ Problem is bad whether you leave defaults or spend time futzing with ever-growing list of settings. I have no data on broad iOS notifications but suspect it is a confusing data set because it mixes two main patterns that make averages meaningless and designing for both a mess.

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  @anildash @patrickc The thing to pay attention to is 16.8% of M1 is neural (for AI workloads). That mostly is unused. When Apple's augmented reality headset arrives that will then be used. The headset arrives in the next 16 months. Everything is about to change.

• @stroughtonsmith Steve Troughton-Smith on x

  If the iPad multitasking UI just did what people expect from the start, it wouldn't have needed... *counts fingers* ...seven (so far) complete redesigns in 12 years 🤪

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  Gurman says iOS 16 has a ton of stuff for the Apple augmented reality headset and says that means we will get the headset sometime between now and next June. That matches what I am hearing from my sources as well. By next June we will have it. https://twitter.com/...

• @parkerortolani Parker Ortolani on x

  This sure looks like it's going exactly how things went with iOS 8. At WWDC 2014 they laid the ground work for watchOS apps by introducing extensions, the Health app, and more powerful notifications in iOS 8. 4 months later they introduced the Apple Watch. https://twitter.com/...