From Uniqlo KAWS to iTunes deadline, from Sun Yuchen to Black Phoenix, from Unreliable Entity List to 5G License, from Dragon Boat Festival to College Entrance Examination... So many things happened last week that Apple WWDC had little sense of existence except for a glimpse of iPadOS and Mac Pro in the early morning of the first day.

Of course, the close interaction between developers and fruit powder after the press conference is naturally unknown to us as far away as the ocean. However, as a fruit powder that "does not see rabbits and does not scatter eagles", it does not care about the "little moves" outside the spotlight of Apple. After all, Apple has felt arrogance and prejudice since ancient times. Her temperament is too easy to indulge.

This time, iPadOS, which is unique, and Mac Pro, which is expensive in the sky, vividly explain what "pride and prejudice" are ".

We do not deny that using iPadOS to empower iPad and open up the mobile office market is indeed a bit imaginative. However, limited to the surrounding ecology and expansion boundaries of the iPad, it is destined to be only a "auxiliary" tool.

As for the Mac Pro, which can be priced at $999 per bracket, we admit that it is a "performance killer", but even if it is positioned as a "workstation", it cannot hide the lack of aesthetics.

Through this conference, we can still "see" Apple's three major plans for the 5G era.

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Mac Pro: modular past
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Long before WWDC, Apple released two waves of hardware in March and May respectively: iPad mini & iPad Air, iMac, AirPods and Macbook Pro, iPod touch and iPod touch.

Against the background of these "colleagues", the waist disc of Mac Pro is even more prominent.

But in fact, in addition to price and aesthetics, Mac Pro deserves our attention and its design idea-modularity.

Modularization gives users the opportunity to operate, and also gives the product itself the space for continuous iteration. A more inclusive ecological architecture can help the product realize more possibilities.

But in fact, as early as the 1985s, the Jonathan Macintosh already had the concept of modularity. Eslinger even claimed that modularity is the future of PC and MICROS more than 30 years ago. However, this time Mac Pro changed its previous "integrated architecture" restriction to return to modularity, obviously not only for 6 years.

The benefits of modularity are obvious: it has greater freedom and adaptability, and can activate existing hardware arrays to embed their own appropriate productivity for different environments.

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iPadOS: systematizing the present
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On January 27, 2010, Jobs personally released a tablet computer -- iPad that has been prepared for many years.

Today, nine years later, the iPad is finally no longer a vassal of iOS, it has its own operating system iPadOS.

From iOS to iPadOS is not just as simple as the screen getting bigger, it means that Apple has another operating system for the future.

So far, Apple has gathered the five major ecosystems of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS and iPadOS, plus Apple's repeatedly defeated TitanOS (driverless) and KitOS(AR operating system), which has been making continuous efforts in recent years. Apple finally has a chance to "summon the dragon.

Although Apple has been a bit rogue in its own ecological barriers, it is also this revolutionary spirit of "self-respect" that has given the iOS camp a unique ecological experience: the continuous derivation and division of new ecological tests to explore the possibility of iOS, which has given the Apple camp a tenacious vitality in the system.

Even if Apple really can't keep up with the pace in the 5G era, Apple can still gain a wave of fans through the system.

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IPhone Fold: Folding Future
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There have been many versions of Apple's folding concept and Apple's folding patent. Semin Jun's one is still more Apple's.

If you don't consider the implementation of the hinge, the internal folding of the iPhone Fold is much more exquisite than the GALAXY Fold: there are no oblique bangs, no triangular seams, no non-mainstream, everything is just right; Even it doesn't have to worry about the bumps of the screen.

And compared to the external folding, it also has a unique folding angle shape (if a single screen is required, plus a complete auxiliary screen).

Of course, considering the limitations of Apple's disclosed three fold and "waist fold" patents, the above concept machine is limited to imagination without better hinge technology and flexible screen.

But in fact, whether it is the modularization of Mac Pro for high performance, the possibility of iPadOS independent breeding, or the perfect folding of iPhone Fold; We have fallen into the misunderstanding of "mobile phone folding and computer unfolding". Since these are immature and only transition plans, why don't we redesign the "tablet?

It is a good thing that iPadOS has its own system, but it is still limited to Jobs' script. After iMac and iPhone, will iPad be in the script of Wang Qiao ten years ago?

Think carefully, in fact, do we really need mobile phone folding and computer unfolding?

The modularization of Mac Pro is not a good idea:

If performance is needed, we can "bridge" several devices together;

If it needs to be folded, two mobile phones and one twin system can meet it;

If it needs to be unfolded, a flat plate and a folding keyboard are enough.

However, these are only "strange skills" after all. What we urgently need is to reinvent the "tablet" and have performance and convenience as the interactive tools urgently needed in the 5G era.

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