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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The App Store is going to be "completely redesigned". And it does look very beautiful. (That's not something you can say about the current one...)
It looks a lot more like the Apple Music app: you get things like "today" with recommendations for new apps, and special pages for games and other things.
We're seeing a lengthy – very lengthy – display of the new App Store. It looks pretty good.
iOS 11 will be getting the technologies like Metal 2 that are coming to the Mac.
Apple is giving developers an easy way to integrate machine learning into their own apps. That's another important step to catch up with Google, which has offered such tools for a while and has pulled away from Apple on that point.
Augmented reality is also much easier for developers. That all but confirms big things are coming with the iPhone 8, as I wrote earlier today
AR works by allowing the phone to work out where surfaces are. Things can then be added onto that surface, for instance – it's a little like the display to catch Pokemon in Pokemon Go, for instance.
We're getting a look at all of the stuff for augmented reality: objects that stay in exactly the right place on a table, for instance.
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