WWDC 2017 came and went. A lot of interesting stuff. As a heads up, I didn't pay an awful lot of attention to anything about the Apple Watch or the iPhone. I also haven't watched the video yet.
That said, it was an interesting year!
It transpires that most of what Vittici's wish-list video contained was true. iOS has gained drag-and-drop, a file management app, and the highest end of iPads can now run three applications at once, two in a side-by-side mode and a third floating on top of the other two. (This is essentially primordial windowing.)
There was new iPad hardware which looks relatively exciting, including the hotly rumored 10.5-inch iPad Pro. There was also a new revision of the 12.5-inch iPad Pro.
On the Mac OS X side of things, OS X High Sierra Snow Sierra 10.13 brings APFS to SSD-equipped Macs (nothing for hard disks quite yet) and is being talked about as another quality-of-life release like Snow Leopard. I think what a lot of people realize is that the other [Modifier] [Cat] release was Mountain Lion 10.8 and was a relatively problematic release. It's pretty widely agreed that 10.8 is the low point in Mac OS X history up to this point. (I personally think that the low point is probably 10.7, with 10.6 and 10.8 each being only slightly better, 10.5 and 10.9 were each that much better, but that's sort of splitting hairs.
The Mac hardware was almost all refreshed. Literally the only things left untouched were already the oldest things in the product stack – the Mac Pro and the Mac mini. Even the 2015 MacBook Air had a configuration update (slightly faster CPU, 16GB RAM was removed.)
The real stars of the show, for me, were the acknowledgement of external GPUs via Thunderbolt 3 and the iMac Pro. The new iMacs are a great update and most of the 21.5-inch models at $1299 and above have gained socketed CPUs and memory, but there isn't information on the new $1099 model, which has moved to a slightly better CPU.
The iMac Pro is an interesting machine, Apple has managed to cram an awful lot of CPU and GPU firepower into the machine, and it'll be really interesting to see if it can perform and stay cool.
The Mac mini and the Mac Pro have yet to happen, I'm thinking that we might see the Mini silently updated later on in the year, and the Mac Pro is guaranteed to happen as soon as "next year" but it could be even longer.