Meandering Thoughts

As has become tradition, I am writing a few words about Apple’s upcoming, very keenly avoiding the word “prediction.”

The consensus (and historical pattern) suggests that this is going to be announcing new iPhones, likely the incremental, internal update to last years major bump.

The most interesting rumour from a developers point of view is that of “Force Touch.” If it provides a new way of interacting with apps it may need some thought as to whether it makes sense to add it to our apps.

I’m finding the “long shot” rumours more interesting. What about the iPad Pro --  an iPad with a much bigger screen? I’m not expecting any problems with our existing apps, since they already scale across all screen sizes, but will it open new opportunities?

A new Apple TV also has potential. The rumour is that it will have an App Store. None of Wandle Software’s apps really lend themselves to a bigger screen but, as a user, a nice streaming video box with the possibility of casual gaming sounds compelling.

Anything else?

I wonder if this will be the only Apple event this Autumn. OS X feels closer to being ready to being ready than iOS 9 so might we see the release of El Cap, or at least an announcement about when we’ll see it?

Following on from the side-by-side support for iOS 9, here are bookmarks inside Yummy appearing in Spotlight search results.

I’m still trying to evaluate what this years WWDC means for Wandle’s apps, but I quickly realised that the side-by-side feature for the iPad Air 2 would be useful for Yummy. So the first thing I did when I downloaded Xcode 7 was try it. I don’t have a new iPad but in the Simulator it seems to work well.

More thoughts when I have them...