And no mention of iPodOS 27.
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Haha. I’m sure @TBTdn was speaking somewhat metaphorically, but you are technically correct. California’s official western border is 3 nautical miles west of the coastline.
Ternus’s current responsibilities are hardware so WWDC seems fine to me that he wasn’t showcased. I imagine the September introduction of new devices will use him a lot.
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Righto @fischej (well, to clarify, I meant going thru the Golden Gate by water, not across the GG Bridge) , but I’m curious where the 3 nautical mile reference comes from. I’ve been away a while but thought coastal states only ‘own’ to where the land meets the sea, beyond which is federal up to some distance.
Interestingly enough, the Wikipedia page on geography of CA leaves out textually and illustratively, the western border. It also points out the Farallon Islands, part of SF, are 30 nm out.
Golly, gets more and more complicateder! :-) Anyway, back to the tech discussion!
Thanks @neil1 , the CCC tool for iOS is for:
CCC Mobile Backup can back up locally-stored media from the Photos application, or files from the Files application.
Which is quite a ways from the kind of backup CCC does for a Mac. I suppose iMazing does backup for iDevices too, now that I’m thinking more about it, but to the Mac, which then has to be backed up itself. Maybe there are others besides Apple’s own local and cloud options.
Well, I was quoting ChatGPT. Don’t tell me she was hallucinating again? Or maybe smoking something that was being passed around in the VW microbus that drove by in the keynote? 
Well, there you have it. Might be true, might not. I never used to trust Wikipedia but would take its info over any “AI” these days.
yeah good we haven’t figured out how to move smell thru the internet yet, at least not in a mass way (I vaguely recall something about this years ago that involved perfumes on one end digitzed, sent to a recipient device which tried to reproduce them…)
Sorry for the sidebar/digression.
Back on topic though, I have come across some other Keynote reports on other sites, some trying to decipher a slide full of words for what’s changing in 27, and found a few of the features worth having.
Originally national coastal territorial waters were set at 3 nautical miles (NM) (3.45 statute miles, 5.6 Km) because that was the distance of defensive artillery at the time. Late in the 20th Century, 12 NM became the norm for territorial control with an exclusive economic zone covering the area between the 12 NM out to 200 NM. The national governments can determine if sub-jurisdictions like state and provinces have authority locally. Most likely for these United States that is to the old 3 NM limit.
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Speaking for myself, this is Good News. A “Snow Leopard” maintenance release would be welcome – particularly with many of Liquid Glass’ worst (IMO) excesses dialed back in macOS.
And the overhaul of Spotlight is something that really has my interest. Spotlight not being able to find files that I know are there – until I delete and then re-create the Spotlight index for a drive (release the mdworker processes!) – has been a significant problem for almost a decade. (Thank goodness for the Find Any File app.)
I’m still sticking to Sequoia for now; but once things shake out with Golden Gate (e.g., macOS 27.2 or so), leapfrogging Tahoe is is looking very attractive.
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Thanks for the research, @romad ! I recall from aviation charts back in the 70s when I was learning to fly in northern CA that there were Air Defense Interception Zones (ADIZ) all along the coast. Don’t recall what their size was then but that they were expanded sounds familiar.
Back on Topic though, as I read blogs about the WWDC I see more and more UI tweaks and other things that sound good for me, so maybe later this year I’ll try it if I can find out more about stopping the new Spotlight/Siri. I find their push to index everything and invade all the apps with analysis, suggestions, and ‘AI’ tools extremely invasive and off putting and don’t want anything to do with it.
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A very good summary of the WWDC this time around.
I just want Apple to fix iTunes. For instance, with shuffle, I have a 1000+ songs on my phone for Carplay. And in the years I’ve been using it, there are songs NEVER to have played, or songs played 300x!
The liquid Glass fiasco…ofcourse its Tacit. Think Different Shareholders. I just helped someone upgrade to Tahoe and she exclaimed, WTF is this childish look!! (from a 78yr old widow, that was very…amusing). Then proceeded to turn off the four recommended settings as much of it as I could.
I use smart playlists to deal with this. For instance, make a list that contains only those songs not played in the last 30 days and shuffle that.
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I agree, which is why I consider newer MacOS versions as being “downgrades” as more and more geek stuff is added making MacOS less & less “for the rest of us”.
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“so your iPhone won’t switch to a nearby Wi-Fi network as you walk by”
Do people actually leave their Wi-Fi when they’re not using it?
“Apple has now extended that protection to intervene before kids can see gore or violent content”
That nudity would be considered a higher priority is an indication of the warped society in which they operate.
People turn their Wi-Fi off?
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I have an uncle that turns his whole phone off (complete shutdown) in order to “save the battery.” You basically can’t call him.
But then neither can the spammers, so maybe he’s onto something. 
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I know one dad who would put the router in his car’s trunk when he headed to work.
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Yes, all the time in this household! iPhone rarely has it on, cellular data is enough. The Mac and iPad WiFi is turned off when not in use. Some devices are kept in Airplane mode until internet is needed.
Good thoughts on WWDC26 from Jason Snell.
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