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Apple Is Smashing the Walls Between Platforms
A hardware-free Apple WWDC21 is about sharing, health, your data, and local intelligence
Apple is bringing so many good and necessary changes to all its major platforms that it seems almost unfair to say Monday morning’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote left me a little underwhelmed.
There are a lot of announcements, including some big ones like Siri on third-party devices and your Driver’s License in Apple Wallet. However, there was no Apple Silicon, M1-level moment. In fact, M1 got little more than a few mentions, without any details on future Apple Silicon platform enhancements. How, for instance, might macOS Monterey take advantage of the M1 architecture? If Apple’s working on an M2 or M1 Pro chip, we got no hints here.
That there was no hardware at all is only disappointing if you forget that this is a Developers’ Event. It’s about software, platforms, and code, and looked upon in that light, the event fulfilled its brief.
