What I expect at the Apple WWDC keynote #apple #wwdc

The keynote is very soon, everyone, and what comes with it is some pretty cool stuff.

 

I think.

 

For one, Apple is announcing Proactive, a feature of iOS 9 that aims to slap Google Now in the butt.  Except Apple isn’t really known for slapping Google’s butt, so to make Apple fans happy let’s just say that Apple wants to make your life two-hundred times easier by introducing smart contextual actions.

Also, iOS 9 is going to be STABLE.  Because…it wasn’t before.  For some reason.

 

The Apple TV is not going to make an appearance, apparently, because Apple couldn’t get the hardware working.

 

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…I’m slightly out of it today.  One because while one of the main points of the Apple Watch is to communicate with the iPhone, the communication itself is STUPID slow.  2.  Why the hell couldn’t they get iOS 7 to be stable, and then make iOS 8 even more unstable, and THEN go for stability??  I mean I know Apple critics call Apple slow sometimes but this is so slow it violates their values…in my head at least.

And then that HORRENDOUSLY handled keynote last year…I just don’t get it.

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Sorry.  I had to get that out.

 

So let’s talk about Proactive.

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Proactive is Apple’s version of Google Now (or of they really try it’ll be Apple’s version of Google Now On Tap).  And it will be placed to the left side of the first Home Screen page just like where Spotlight was originally.  Its goal is to make everything easier by lumping your calendar events, apps you use most often (based on time of day it seems), and other things all in one screen.

Just like Notification Center…what?  You said Notification Center doesn’t have app links?  Sure it does, in a widget called Launcher.

Because it has widgets…did you forget Apple tried way too hard in iOS 8…

 

One thing my dad pointed out is that Proactive can’t really do anything too smart unless it collects data and sends it to Apple.  As in Apple tracks you. Everything about you, anytime.

Actually, Apple already does that with Spotlight.  It gathers your Spotlight searches and which entry you tap and tracks that data.

…I just hope Apple doesn’t try to sell the data Proactive gathers.  [NOTE:  I have no idea how this selling data thing works or why it happens, and I don’t want to know.]

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Also there’s going to be some dedicated HomeKit app or something…

…and I already said everything was going to be more stable…finally…

 

[[Jeezus.  I sounded so jumpy and bored at the same time in this post.  Reading so many critical reviews on Apple products has thrown me for a loop.  I would thank each and every one of them for giving me some much-needed perspective, but…they gave me some perspective on a company that did so well and now is not doing well at all (in terms of their goals, which is mostly the completely unhindered user experience).  I literally have no idea whether to be blindly excited/hopeful for Apple products or just hope that their good or to assume that they’ll suck.  And now I miss Steve Jobs.  I hope his ghost is brainstorming some ideas or something.]]