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What Apple Needs to Introduce at WWDC

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It'd be nice if they'd fix multi-monitor in OSX. It is a pain to work with if you multitask frequently, and its also worse if you frequently use full screen apps (basically disables all other screens).

Seriously, if they announce that they fixed multi-monitor in 10.9 and thats the sole only feature in it over 10.8, I will buy it.

I wish i could up vote this more than once...

Seriously, does no one on the OS X dev team use multiple monitors!?

Let me up the ante: does no one on the OS X dev team use Xcode? :)

Multimonitor is coming, according to a well sourced rumour http://www.macrumors.com/2013/04/29/os-x-10-9-to-bring-enhan...

#25: "The ability to Find My Friends without having to open up an app covered in leather. This will allow vegetarians to finally use the product."

Golden.

I think "cure baldness and cancer" would also fit right in there somewhere.

While we're at it, how about being able to AirDrop files between Macs and iOS devices? I'd love to be able to send a video to my iPad without dealing with iTunes.

I also want world peace, m&ms for breakfast, and a pony.

#4 is hard thanks to the relatively strong crypto iMessage seems to use. Hopefully Apple can work out the kinks, though.

#20 is hard because of how instrumental the lockscreen is to certain core functionality, including full-filesystem encryption. Apple would have to define a funky lockscreen API, and it would be really difficult to ensure that any given custom lockscreen didn't seriously impair device security (e.g. by returning a low-entropy key).

#36 sounds unappealing to me. I don't want more social networking fads cluttering up my mobile OS.

#46 kind of misses the point of Air Drop. We have dozens of easy-to-use and robust remote filesharing solutions. Air Drop only simplifies the act of creating a WLAN.

There are some good points here, but a lot of this kind of just seems like a Christmas list for the Apple Santa.

This is a great list of things that it would be very difficult for Apple to actually deliver.

All I really wanted was for Preview to be able to open epub & iBook purchases.

I'd settle for 13 - "The ability to finally, once and for all delete old app IDs from the portal." That fact I can't shits me no end.

I visited my developer account this morning and I was able to delete app IDs. You need to select the app ID, then click on "settings" and then you will find the "delete" button below the form.

Don't play with me! Really?! Thank you for letting me know!

They added this the last few weeks along with the portal UI refresh.

8. A separate documentation viewer from Xcode itself so that command-tabbing between code and documents is possible and I can remove that weird purple icon DashCode uses from my Dock.

I use Command-` to toggle between code and documentation in the Organizer

Alternatively, I drag the organizer window to another desktop and use finger swipe gestures to quickly switch.

Anyone know what "The ability to update apps in the background without weird geofencing hacks to accomplish it." refers to?

I think he means "The ability for apps to pull down remote state from the internet in the background without weird geofencing hacks to accomplish it."

They don't "need" to do anything on that list. That is a wish list of features.

They "need" to sell things.

What about my Retina macbook air!?

(oh, and a pony)

No doubt this is a wonderful list...as sad as it is to say, though, it would take far more than this list to 'appease the internet'. I'm not trying to be nit-picky on just one phrase but since it is your thesis to an extent, you must realize that even such a long and accurate list will not succeed in 'Appeasing the internet'. In fact, nothing should ever appease the internet. The 'beauty' of the internet is that there is and always will be a desire for more.

I once heard a neat metaphor and I think it applies quite well here (I've adjusted it a bit for this context): Imagine the x-axis to be representative of appeasing the internet. Now you must understand that every service/company has a graph that is asymptotic to the x-axis. So services like Apple and Google are pretty close but they will never truly be able to appease the entire internet.

I guess I was nit-picky but some food for thought nonetheless.

I just want the iOS simulator to not leave zombie processes behind every time I run it.

I'd also add make Siri better, I feel like it was barely touched in iOS 6.

Err, lots of people would also like to see:

iWork apps for 2013,

iLife apps for 2013,

Logic Pro X,

Aperture 4,

Final Cut Pro 10.5

Would those be considered WWDC appropriate products?

There's nothing to say what's a WWDC appropriate product or not.

The WWDC is not just the developers conference. It's also the Keynote, which is a "state of the union" thing, meant for the general public, not some developer session.

So, at least updates to iLife and iWork would be fine to be shown there (and they had been announced in the past).

Not to mention there's not a set "appropriate time" to present a new Logic, Aperture and the rest, since Apple eschews NAB, Musikmesse and similar trade shows. If they get to show a new Mac Pro (as Cook promised last year), updates to the Pro apps could also be announced in brief.

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