Apple WWDC as it happened: Tech giant updates every product it makes and releases new HomePod Siri speaker
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Your support makes all the difference.Apple just updated every single one of its products. And released some new ones as well.
The company is holding its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, and kicked it off with its most wide-ranging event of the year.
As well as updating the software for all of its products, as it always does, the company showed off. That included updates to the iPad and Mac line – but most of all was the Siri speaker, a talking music system for the home.
Find full coverage on each of those releases – iOS 11, the new macOS, a new Siri and the HomePod speaker – below.
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Lot of VR announcements: Steam and all sorts of other platforms. That's important because Apple has mostly neglected virtual reality, despite it possibly being the future.
Mention of VR is one of the things I mentioned to look out for on the iPhone 8 – it's a likely indication of what's coming in September:
There's some really nice VR stuff going on here – a woman creating an entire VR Star Wars scene, all on a Mac. That's a big leap for a platform that basically couldn't do VR at all until recently.
Apple is offering us a "sneak peek" at a Pro computer. Not clear yet whether this is the new Mac Pro or something else.
Oh! It's a new iMac Pro. It looks the same as the iMac – but it's in the beautiful dark grey finish that's on the MacBook Pro and other computers.
This has absolutely huge specs – Apple says it is as fast as a full workstation but inside a Mac. Superfast processors, very powerful graphics. Everything you want.
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