WWDC 2021 - Keynote

June 7, 2021

I was an apple fan for the last 5+ years and I’m always eager to watch their presentations. They always have marketing-driven demos, but in this year they outbullshitened themselves. Over the many California style stages and inspiring fake smiles it’s getting harder than ever to see actual features, that will help me personally in everyday life:

• Notification profiles and, especially, autoanswer in iMessage, that user is in focus mode.
• Tab groups in safari. Instead of several windows use group tabs - that can save screenspace on small laptop screen and also focus on one topic. • ‘async/await’ in Swift is long overdue. I didn’t wrote in Swift for the last 5 months, but I may come back one day and it would be nice to see these features, that were implemented in C# a decade ago.

That’s actually all news that I really care about. iPad mulitasking and Playgrounds enchantments looks promising, but I am not active iPad user. Not every wwdc should be amazing (like last year was with widgets, app library and  silicone macs), today is a quiet one. With is good, I just wish that presentation were more actually inspiring and less from pinkish kindergarten world.