More thoughts on the WWDC23 keynote
By Edward Willis (http://encw.xyz and gopher://encw.xyz)
Published Jun/6/2023

People who are really in their target audience are going to love everything from
WWDC.

I am an Apple user, but I'm not passionate about any of it. I'm a user of their
phones and watches. But only because I have to have a smartphone, and if I have
a smartphone, I might as well have a smartwatch. I have a MBP, and it is a nice
computer on the whole, but I have mixed feelings about the hardware, and the OS.

If you want a modern system with all the modern bloated bells and whistles I
think Apple has the best offering by far with their ecosystem of products.

WWDC left me, on reflection, with a sense of frustration. What I watched was a
video describing how much more bloat Apple is going to inject into their
operating systems. Not only does this bloat make them slower and buggier, it
also makes them less secure. We should be moving technology the other way, but
big tech keeps powering on.

The other big problem is that every new feature is another reason to pick up
your iOS thing, and that is another moment of your life that you are giving to
it. I don't want to look back at my life and be struck by how not present in it
I was because I was looking at a phone screen. And I don't want that for other
people either.

Desktop computers, you leave them at home, most of the time you leave your
laptop too, unless you need it for work or some very specific use. But mobile
computers, we bring those with us everywhere.

That's why we shouldn't be asking more of our mobile computers; we should be
asking less.