The Sams Report EP 92: Ready To Move

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• nbplopes

  09 June, 2017 - 11:12 am

  <p>Hi Brad, I think you are loosing focus on important stuff. Well known technologists are not gushing over drag &amp; drop coming to iOS per si, it just that it came in such a way that it blows drag &amp; drop capabilities of a PC or Mac out of the water. They take it several steps further taking advantage of multi-touch and iOS multitasking capabilities.</p><p>I understand that some of Apples announcements are a bit overhyped, but year after year they also come up with some pearls.</p><p>Just jump to min 57 here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/102/</p><p>So no, this approach to drag &amp; drop was not here in 1997, neither last week. More importantly it saves time in a lot of common tasks.</p><p>In the same operation one can select multiple assets across multiple application and import it in another app. This is not possible with mouse and keyboard. Its allow multidimensional drag &amp; drop easily, unlike the drag &amp; drop capabilities that we know. How do you move multiple files on multiple folders in one go using Windows or the Mac? More importantly it looks very natural, need to try it out when iOS 11 comes out.</p><p>How dare Apple improve drag &amp; drop, how dare they, it looks so silly doesn't it?</p><p>This is a perfect example why some people really like Apple sometimes.</p><p>Now I don't know if Apple invented this approach, but they were at least smart enough to implemented it well as it seams. But if they did invented, considering your observation, part of me feels "I really hope they wrapped this so tight in patents that Windows will not be able to replicate it so well in the next 10 years", it would be well deserved don't you think? It will be interesting to see how developers will apply this to all sorts of things, including note taking, bring assets from multiple apps, multiple web pages in one go.</p><p>Another thing that I feel you are skipping is that clearly Apple approach to Machine Learning at the moment is focused on local capabilities. Not the Cloud. The chip will for sure come soon. You know what happens of for instance with Cortana, not irregularly, waiting for the machine to comply to simple things for instance, "Hey Cortana, Volume Down". That is, this approach will allow some user oriented AI capabilities to be far more responsive than Cloud only based AI, as seams to be the approach of Microsoft and Google. Furthermore, it works off line. Maybe all this will prove to be the the silliest approach, but following your own wave kind of makes wonder what they are on to.</p><p>Than there is also VR. It seams to me the Metal 2 along with Apple own GPU's allows for some fantastic scenarios right now, without AR headsets. Not to mention that it looks cheaper way to get into AR, even though the either the iPhone and iPads are considered expensive.</p><p>Regards,</p><p>Nuno</p>

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• Brad Sams

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  09 June, 2017 - 12:39 pm

  <blockquote><a href="#124035"><em>In reply to nbplopes:</em></a></blockquote><p>Appreciate the feedback, thanks.</p>

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