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Apple WWDC as it happened: Tech giant updates every product it makes and releases new HomePod Siri speaker

Andrew Griffin
Monday 05 June 2017 10:02 BST
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Apple CEO Tim Cook walks off stage after speaking during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West centre
Apple CEO Tim Cook walks off stage after speaking during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West centre (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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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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Apple is going hard on price: if you built a PC system like the iMac Pro, it would cost you $7,000. The iMac Pro costs "just" $4999.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 18:58

It comes out in December.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 18:58

That's it for the Mac. Back to Tim Cook.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 18:59

Onto the big stuff: iOS.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 18:59

Tim promised there wouldn't be "updates". But we're getting some of his favourites – like the fact that almost everyone is on the latest version of iOS, when almost nobody is on the most recent version of Android.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:00

iOS 11 is a "big one". Big focus on "technologies", like macOS, but also some "features".

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:00

iMessages are going to live in the cloud. That will make everything run faster and better on the iPhone and the Mac.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:02

(Messages will still be entirely encrypted.)

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:02

Siri has a new voice.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:04

It can say the same words in different ways, for instance – which lets it use intonation. That might help improve some of its jokes...

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:04

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