It feels as if every time Apple announces a new event, there’s always a plague of disappointment when the company doesn’t produce the goods that the tech Twitterati has been rumoring for months beforehand. It’s as if we have this misguided illusion that Apple only makes products or services to suit what we want, and when we want it. And that’s exactly what happened at this year’s WWDC event. Instead of accepting that this event was primarily set up in mind to showcase new software developments to, well, developers, the general public was enraged when Apple chose to only reveal the latest version of iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS, and not give us a sneak peak of some up–and–coming shiny new hardware. The thing is — Apple does the same OS updates at WWDC every year, come on guys and gals! That shiny new thing in question was the rumored new MacBook Pro or Mac Pro. They didn’t happen, so the event received a lot of negative online press from naysayers. I think that’s probably an indication we’ve either become too spoiled, or the Covid crisis has just made us desperate for anything good to happen.
