Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun share their thoughts and experiences with the new technologies Apple announced at WWDC this week.Note: Shownotes are complete!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 821 for Wednesday, June 24, 2020
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WWDC2020
00:04:38 macOS 11 Big Sur
Functional/User-interface changes
New fonts, colors, stylings (briefly, anyway). New modal sheet view
Control Center/menu bar. Sys Pref > Dock & Menu Bar > Control Center
Menu bar has more space/padding, but many things can be moved to control center
Wi-Fi Menu
Sys Pref > Battery
00:16:58 Messages
Nice to have it in sync with (new) iOS 14 version
00:17:54 Mail
“Classic” view still works, same as with Catalina
BS brings back actual columns in Classic view!
00:21:19 Maps
00:22:29 New sounds everywhere
Screenshots, Mail, you name it (including the reboot sound!)
New sound on 16” MacBook Pro
Safari
Language Translation
Redesigned tabs
00:32:42 Overall stability
00:35:22 WWDC Sponsor: iMazing Configurator)
00:37:03 Apple Silicon
00:44:36 Universal 2
00:46:45 Rosetta 2
“Ahead of time” translation and Apple’s “Translation Cache”
Kernel Extensions Cannot Be Translated
00:50:59 iOS Apps on macOS
They get a menu bar… complete with a “Quit” option!
Apple Silicon Branding!
00:53:37 Virtualization – Vs Emulation! and Bootcamp
00:59:13 Would you advise buying an intel Mac today? Or wait 18 months for AS?
What’s the future of the Mac now that iPads run the same chips?
01:06:33 iOS 14/iPadOS 14
Fairly stable on my iPhone SE 2020
Home Screen
Widgets
01:16:36 MGG 821 Outtro
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