** The Official WWDC 2022 thread “Call to code” - Keynote 6th June at 18:00 BST **

LMAO, that creg running clips was hilarious :D

The ability to use your iphone as a webcam is brilliant. Been doing that with my iphone and windows desktop for the last two years with NewTek software. The wide angle combine desktop and face view is bonkers though. Incredible innovation there for teaching.

The collab features are great too. Really taking a punt at the Google Workspace space. Will be limiting though without web based version of every app it uses for non ios users. Without a web based UI for every app it makes it all dead in the water to me, as it only takes one user to need to switch to a cross platform solution and never user the Apple version no matter how good it is.

The game centre improvements have to have Valve and Steam rethinking some things.

Seems iOS on iPad is becoming a lot more desktop feature rich too, to try and become a viable desktop OS alternative.

This feels like the culmination of multiple years of behind the scenes software work, some of which wasn't ready for release year after year. I'm pretty darn impressed TBH, especially if it all manages to ship.
 
If you have a decent camera like a Sony A7 or similar there has long been software to allow you to use that as a webcam. Newer ones even have it built in. Far superior to using a mobile phone as a webcam.
 
englishpremier said:
If you have a decent camera like a Sony A7 or similar there has long been software to allow you to use that as a webcam. Newer ones even have it built in. Far superior to using a mobile phone as a webcam.
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That involves tripod, cables, software, getting the camera out of the case, put lens on.

Or clip the phone on when i need to use it once a week.

This isn't about taking daily zoom meetings or streaming, this is for the occasional need when it comes in handy.
 
Cromulent said:
OMG! This is a massive winning feature for me! I've been waiting for VMWare Fusion to come out officially with Apple Silicon support but now it looks like I don't need it at all.
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Looks like the API is open too so you can stand up pre-configured environments pretty quickly.
 
The more screenshots I see of the new lock screen, the more obvious it seems that the next iPhones (14 hopefully, but maybe 15) will have some variety of always-on display. The fact the "widgets" are very light/minimal and monotone (basically Watch Complications but on the lock screen) mean the wallpaper/background could be turned off, and then just the date, time, and lock screen widgets left dimly lit at a super-low refresh rate.

I'm also hopeful them being like complications mean devs can quickly convert their watch versions ready for iOS 16 lock screens.
 
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The more screenshots I see of the new lock screen, the more obvious it seems that the next iPhones (14 hopefully, but maybe 15) will have some variety of always-on display. The fact the "widgets" are very light/minimal and monotone (basically Watch Complications but on the lock screen) mean the wallpaper/background could be turned off, and then just the date, time, and lock screen widgets left dimly lit at a super-low refresh rate.

I'm also hopeful them being like complications mean devs can quickly convert their watch versions ready for iOS 16 lock screens.
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100%
 
Apple has been very good the last couple of years in terms of listening to what users want and providing it. I can understand why at one point they would have been a disliked company (I didnt particularly like them for a lot of things they had done or done wrong) but the last couple of years they have really gone in a new and better direction, and it seems to be working very well

They are by no means perfect, but do seems to be doing a lot right atm, and even die hard apple haters can admit that much
 
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The last major battle ground is side loading/3rd party stores and gaming catelogs on iOS.

The argument that apples takes 30% for payment processing is disingenuous but it’s clearly a profit centre for Apple.

NFC being locked down is a bit of an issue too.
 
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