Three Thoughts on WWDC 2021

1 · Rui Carmo · June 8, 2021, 6:42 p.m.
So I finally watched the keynote and the State Of The Union1, and came away with three main thoughts: FaceTime enhancements sort of bring it into parity with Zoom and Teams for “civilians”, and the ML-powered background blurring and noise suppression are extremely welcome, but all I could think of while I watched the demos was “I guess using WebEx all day was great motivation to get this done”. Xcode Cloud is probably the first thing that justifies the $99 developer fee (even if it appears to be...