What do I want from this year’s WWDC? Everything I’ve wanted over the past 4-5 WWDCs. Additionally, I would like (not want) more APIs for existing Apple apps, such as Journal, Books, etc. Also, a new Time Machine product. Support for more programming languages within XCode: Python, Ruby, Erlang;—at least Lua. Everyone supports Lua, right?

I’m not interested in VisionPro and its APIs until normal humans can afford the device.

I doubt Apple will ever create a visual programming layer over Swift/SwiftUI. That’s now obvious. Someone still could and should. I would if I had time and a fraction of the resources Apple has.

Apple doesn’t care about gaming, beyond what it brings in money-wise.

I miss Steve. I miss Steve’s pragmatism. I miss Steve’s “…one more thing.”

I’m hoping Apple’s next big thing will be a “super”-Oura ring. They have the tech. I love the Oura ring. It’s given me more insights into my sleep than anything Apple or third-party sleep app has.

Apple buys Nintendo? That would be a perfect match, but it will never happen. Also, as I said, Apple hates games. The best I can hope for is an Apple/Nintendo hardware collaboration, but that will not happen.

What if Apple had backward compatibility going back to System 7.0? That would be killer (for some).

What could you do if Apple devices had proximity sensors? Or temperature, pressure, light, sound sensors built-in, with appropriate APIs?

I want Apple to support NoSQL. MongoDB, CouchDB, etc. At least provide APIs to those products. Apple seems to assume relational is better. Wrappers are easy to create. Apple should.

When was the last time Apple updated the FileWrapper API?

I still think getting rid of the data and resource forks was a mistake. Now, everything needs to be compiled-in.

Swift and SwiftUI are great. They are, however, obtuse syntax-wise and crap (a scientific term) at prototyping. Apple needs a good prototyping language. Easy to learn/get into, and useful.

If I ruled the world, things would be different. Not better, just different.