Apple's WWDC Keynote
On June 8, 2015 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, Apple will kick off its Worldwide Developers Conference with a keynote at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Expect news on the next versions of iOS and OS X, and maybe the introduction of a new Apple TV box. Fast Company's Harry McCracken and Daniel Terdiman will report live from the event.
WWDC is always, always primarily about software. This year, that might be even more true than usual. We can assume that upgrades to iOS and OS X are on tap. And the one major piece of hardware which was rumored to debut--a major update to the Apple TV streaming box--now seems unlikely. Come join us to see what's new--and to learn if Apple managed to keep any of its secrets truly secret.
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My wife swears by Apple Maps. I still find Google Maps radically better.
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Isn't it sorta weird in retrospect that Apple had the "stocks" app way before a News app?
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Apple doesn't want anyone squawking about womanless keynotes anymore.
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News looks nice. And it does sounds like as with Facebook's Instant Articles, publishers will be formatting their stories to fit within the app.
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Interesting that the News app has made a point of maintaining the style of each publication: You could tell it was a New York Times article she was showing, because it looks like one.
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For years, Apple's Newsstand has been powerful, rich, confusing, and uninviting. This goes in the other direction.
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News keeps track of a million topics, allowing users to type in search terms, and (hopefully) getting news articles based on those terms.
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Whoo boy, much love to the Warriors but all the shout outs are a bit much.
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Apple News looks like a combination of Twitter and Flipboard.. Interesting space.
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Apple's News app is a curated selection of articles, personalized based on your interests.
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New Apple transit makes citymapper a prime acquisition target for apple. They will need the superior data and insights.
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The idea of downloading individual apps for all your favorite magazines and newspapers has always been a fundamental problem with mobile content. As much as I, as a journalist, would like to say that it's reasonable to expect people to do so.
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Again, they're stressing privacy. Federighi says that News was designed from the "ground up" with your privacy in mind.
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Whoa News tracks a million topics. And it sounds like you can actually search and follow them each specifically. This is like any tag-based search, sure, but for personalized news, it allows the user to take over where their algorithm might fail them.
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The New York Times will provide 30 stories a day. Conde Nast, the Atlantic, and others on board as well.
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Anyone in this channel--can you follow publications or just topics? I missed that.
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News is meant to surface articles/stories from all kinds of sources, not just major publications. So, individual blogs, for example, will show up, Federighi says.
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Does News have ads? (Another earnest question if anyone watching this presentation heard.)
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Put two keys down on the keyboard and it "becomes a trackpad." Cut/paste shortcuts added to the suggestions bar. Better support for external keyboards.
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"Now I want to turn to the big one...multitasking."
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The crowd is very excited about multitasking on iPad. And for iOS 9, "we're taking it to a whole new place," Federighi says.
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Nice. Full-screen previews of all running apps on iPad. And you can interact with apps, even as others are showing on the screen.
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All these iPad features make it more PC-like. Even if Apple doesn't introduce a big-screen iPad today, it's prepping itself to make that useful.
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I could be wrong (because I've never used one) but this seems like a response to Surface.
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You can adjust how the screen is split between Safari and apps.
