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Something probably unintentional that they're highlighting with this particular presentation style (frequent female presenters, infrequent male presenters) is that seemingly every role that they require someone in a position of power talking for, it's male, while the grunt work doesn't seem to have been at all. Personal progressiveness mixed with systemic sexism?

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"You all have trouble sleeping so we're going to make your phone teach you yoga and meditation" is a very weird thing to do automatically instead of just blue-light reduction (which they already have a feature for) seems weird, but they know the market better than I do I guess.

All of the Watch features feel like they're aimed at a significantly younger demographic than the rest.

Film adaptions of Asimov have been pretty poor but this could be interesting.

When I read the Foundation books a few years back, I was thinking about what it would take to film them and the biggest challenge I saw was the overwhelming sexism in the storytelling and characterizations. That part of Asimov's writing has not aged well. Not sure how the puzzlebox plots would translate to the screen.

Absolutely agree.

A full redesign of Mac? Well, this can't go well.

Ah, yeah, Mac is now fully iOS-like design wise. The new icons look really bad.

It looks like Deepin but slightly less polished, which is funny, because Deepin was Mac but slightly less polished.

Complete murder of contrast.

Control Center shows up, confirming that this was just to make it all like iOS.

WebExtensions will probably be a huge benefit to Mac users.

Aaaand there's the ARM release.

Kind of mundane. Apple's chips trump many desktop chips, so I imagine the Mac might get an edge on performance again, which would be interesting. They're probably going to blow it though.

I wonder if this means that they're going to put the final bullet in the Mac for Linux with an iOS-like TPM.

All their chips have a Secure Enclave, so yes. That doesn't mean Linux won't be able to run, it just means Linux won't be able to use any of the Secure Enclave's secrets.

Macs presently also have a TPM, but it doesn't lock the device down to the same extent. That's the bit I'm interested in seeing if carries over.

They're bragging about Rise of the Tomb Raider's performance under Metal, a 2015 game, at medium settings.

Still bikeshedding, but there were some interesting things.

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