(I like gumbo more than claim chowdah, Ivar's on the Seattle waterfront is good but I prefer their fish & chips)
- Predictions
- iDeath: Dark Mode on the Mac. ✅
- Item 0: Apple's best year ever: Shockingly silent. ❌
- Item 1: Apple announces the end of mechanical keyboards: No hardware. Look for this later this year. ❌
- Item 2: Apple announces the end of C, C++, Objective-C, AppleScript, Javascript, and Swift, in favor of a new cross-platform language: Workflow: Now called Shortcuts. ✅
- Item 3: New Macs: No hardware. ❌
- Item 4: Apple announces all-new game development tools: ARKit 2.0. ✅
- streaming from a home server or iCloud Games server: No streaming. ❌
- OpenGL is deprecated and then unsupported: Called it! Apple deprecates OpenGL and OpenCL. ✅
- HomePod Hi-Fi: No hardware. ❌
Score: 4/9, which at least puts me in range of any pundit.
Fucking seriously, killing OpenGL is a pain in the ass. Unity and such will adapt easily enough, but MMOs and a lot of indie stuff uses OpenGL, and Metal may be too big a rewrite.