Absolutely meh. I was pretty disappointed in most of this. A few “nice” improvements, but yet another year where the software can’t fulfill the hardware on the iPad.
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I’m happy with what I’ve seen.
I’ve been saying for a while that Apple will have a hardware device that supports Zoom, Teams etc for a while now. SharePlay and the other stuff announced just the building blocks of collaboration tools. Apple is creating a Zoom/Team without making a Carbon copy of those apps and 3rd Party developers will have access. It’s a nice strategy
Universal Control is about removing the impediment to file transfer. While AirDrop is fairly easy why not remove the need to go to the share menu in the first place? I’m at the point where the distinction between the Cloud and your local computing lines should be almost non-existent in a few OS generations.
What makes Apple ….Apple isn’t really huge tectonic shifts but rather elimination of micro annoyances that lessen the impedance for using technology. They haven’t done the best job of it but with the Mac and iOS platforms unified on the same microprocessing architecture and Frameworks their vision seems to be coming into view.
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A new App Store for people to share or sell their automations; that could be really impactful.
Imagine Etsy for apps!
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This. Going back through they keynote I see a ton of “quality of life” improvements across a whole range of areas.
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Downloading the dev betas right now…because I’m a glutton for punishment. 
Nothing on Mail, eh?
Anyone pick up on whether Universal Control works from the iPad to the Mac, e.g., using the Magic Keyboard? If so, I’m taking full credit for the idea:
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Universal Control, IF it works via Ethernet. I’m not holding my breath…
This is probably one of the features I’m most excited about. FINALLY a unified experience in safari!
I hear that! M1 + 2019 iPad Pro + iPhone 11 Pro
I WILL regret this but I don’t right now 
I like that iPad is still an iPad for at least another year.
Mail was only mentioned during the privacy enhancement section. Now you’ll be the only one who knows you can’t ‘share’ an email
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For what it’s worth, that’s literally it for Mail even in the Monterey expanded feature list.
However, there’s a MailKit extension session on June 10th. Perhaps something interesting may happen there.
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I’m surprised no one’s talking about the new naming scheme for macOS. Big cats, places in California, and now not-fish with Manta Ray!
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lol I’m actually wondering HOW LONG we have for number based I[pad]OS updates. 15 is looking a bit chrome-ish
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They didn’t mention magnifier was getting its own app.
I’m guessing macOS will be dropping names too at some point…
I have no idea, I don’t use Notes…?
But I would wager you will get a backlink where available from your Quick Note to the content from where the note was taken.
… now if you could link notes to notes that way, that could be quite interesting.
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Mail.app people rejoice, there is ONE major addition that flew under our collective radar:
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OH I’ll be looking into this for sure. 
with google
I have no guess on how they plan to implement this. Are we getting .me addresses again?