June 22, 2020 • 15 Minutes

WWDC 2020 - Quick Thoughts

In this episode, Leo goes all the big developments revealed on the first day include iOS 14, iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, macOS 11 Big Sur, and what people need to know about the new Apple Silicon.

Youtube Video

https://youtu.be/wDpNBXItVLo

iOS 14

Widgets
App Clips
Default Apps Allowed
Clearer Privacy Policies

iPadOS 14

Scribble for Apple Pencil
Shape Parsing(?) for Apple Pencil
New UI Elements like Sidebar

macOS 11 - Big Sur

Big UI Changes and Refresh
Improved Catalyst Look
New Icons
Improvements to Safari Web Extensions

Apple Silicon on the Mac

More Performance Per Watt
$500 Developer Tool Kit (Mac mini) for Rent
Major Software and Tools All Ready
- Unity, Microsoft, Adobe, Homebrew, etc...
Virtualization available for Server-Side Development
- VAPOR DEMOED!
Building for Universal Apps in Xcode for both CPU Architectures
Rosetta 2 for Emulation
Can Run iOS Apps Natively

More Thoughts

🕵️‍♀️Find My _ (i.e. Apple Tags) is a certification similar to HomeKit
⌚️Wish there was more watchOS improvements
🌊Want to try Big Sur
🛠Looking forward to try Xcode 12 and talking about it next week with Vadim Shpakovski