Apple hosted the inaugural function for it’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference today, in San Francisco, and we were live blogging as the updates were flying in. Updates from iOS 9, OS X, and the all new Apple Music. Get all the updates below, newest at the top.
Oh no. It's a performance by "The Weekend". Never heard of him, but I'm not exactly the most up to date on the music scene. Unfortunately, that means the end of the Apple WWDC with absolutely no mention of Apple TV. I guess the rumours were right on that front. In fact, nothing really innovating going on here except for a few things with Apple Music. Thanks for joining us, and be sure to catch our roundup of the conference on Tuesday morning.
And one last ting......is it going to be a giveaway? Another release? U2 catapulting another album onto people 's iPhones?
For US $14.99 can have up to 6 family members on an account. Everyone gets own account, own library, own recommendations.
Apple Music will be coming to 100 countries June 30 with iOS 8.4, and will be US $9.99 a month, with the first three months free as a trial offer. And Apple Music will also come to Android later this year.
Apple Music's player seems to respond to Siri-like contextual queries. "Play top 10 rock songs." "Play songs from 1990." They all work.
24/7 radio, radio jockeys, three stations......Beats One? Are we just talking about plain old radio? Say what?
Beats One will broadcast from Los Angeles, New York City and London.
Zane Low hired for Beats One. He's on video now. "I'm a music fan. I play records. What I love is watching a group of people react to a record at the same time. We have real music fans running this palce. We have great music DJs and incredible artists who are in the studio right now building real radio shows that are going to blow your mind"
"New is where you discover new albums every week. All of our playlists. Human curated. Available by genre or activity."
"Can search music library but also search millions of songs on iTunes."
Another feature "Connect" on Apple Music, lets artists connect with their fans. So more social mdedia?
"Apple Music. It's a revolutionary music service and it starts with My Music. Recently added albums and songs right across the top. All music purchased and playlists you've created are right here."
Eddy Cue, head of iTunes, on stage now.
In addition, they're talking about setting up a worldwide radio station. 24/7 radio called "Beats One."
A single app on your iPhone.
Apple Music, the streaming service. "It will change the way you experience music forever," says Cook.
And with Apple, there is always... One more thing...
Watch OS 2 for the Apple Watch is available to developers today. Available at large by Fall.
Also, you can play music from your Apple Watch now. I'm pretty sure there'll be people who think it's cool to play crappy dance music from their watch in public.....for everyyone around.....to "enjoy".
Walk away from your phone and you r watch will be able to connect to known WiFi networks.
HomeKit is now available on the Apple Watch--control home automation via your wrist.
Also, current watch apps are extensions of the phone app. Now, native Apple Watch apps are possible.
Fitness apps tie into Apple's own app and Siri. Just raise the watch, say "go for X calorie/distance run" and you're good to go. Also, achievement badges when you complete a goal. Oooohhhh shiny!
Reply to emails and use Facetime audio directly from the Apple Watch in Watch OS 2.
There's also a "Night Stand" mode, when your Apple Watch is charging in the dock. Shows time, keeps an alarm to wake you, and buttons operate as snooze and alarm off. So....what the Moto 360 does.....
Rotating the crown of the Apple Watch will let you 'time travel', pulling up past and upcoming info.
You can now customise your watch face with something called "Complications". These are bits of info you can have displayed in addition, like the date, flight info, tweets, sports scores. Probably not the wisest name for the feature though, makes it sound cluttered.
New watch faces added, with a custoisable Photos face. It shuffles your photos like a screensaver.
Applw Watch's Kevin Lynch on stage now, talking about the new capabilities.
"We want to talk about now the next opportunity to change the world. And that's the opportunity to bring native apps to the watch with the new version of Watch OS"
And we have Cook back on stage for the Apple Watch announcements.
Apple's App store has crossed 100 billion downloads. Apple has paid out $30 billion to devs to date, they say.
iOS 9 will support all the devices that run iOS 8. That means iPhone 4S, iPad 2 are still okay.
On to Swift now, Apple's custom designed programming language for iOS and OS X. To much developer applause, Swift has been made Open Source.
Over to Homekit now; has sensors for window shades, security, motion and carbon monoxide detection. Access your HomeKits from anywhere via the iCloud.
A new low power mode in iOS 9 will supposedly stretch battery life by 3 hours.
Downer alert: Split view in iOS is only available on the iPad Air 2. Reason: it requires more power.
Running videos in the iPad now run Picture-in-Picture over other apps for true multitasking.
Now in iOS for the iPad, run two apps side-by-side with both supporting multi-touch simultaneously.
New in the keyboard app for the iPad--easier text selection with the keyboard mimicking a touchpad.
I have to say again, even the updates for the "personalised news app".....all of this has been done before. It seems like Apple execs have been asked to pretend it's 2012. All these very much standard features from the Android platform aer being touted as cutting edge releases for Apple. I'm baffled.
A new news reader app in iOS called... News. Far enough. Designed, personalized stories chosen by interest. Apple's Susan Prescott is on stage for this.
Now, public transit routes added to the new Apple Maps mode called 'Transit'. Just not for India......again......whoop dee doo.
Federighi back on stage, talking about more additions to iOS 9. The iOS Notes app now has text formatting, now with checklists, pictures, links and sketches. Wait, iOS hasn't had simple checklists until now?
"Decided it's time to rename Passbook to Wallet." It stores your credit and debit cards, store loyalty cards and more. Well.......then why wasn't it called Wallet in the first place? That's what a wallet does....
The UK gets Apple Pay love--it's coming there next month, including for London's public transport.
Some more stores adding Apple Pay support: Baskin Robbins, Dunkin Donuts, Forever 21, Best Buy.
" Last year we started with debit and credit cards. Over 2500 banks supporting it. This fall Discover will bring Apple Pay to its cardmembers."
And we have Apple Pay up next, with the project's VP Jennifer Bailey on stage.
Intelligence in iOS 9 is done on device, under user control. "It is not shared with third parties." It's not linked to your AppleID and not linked to other Apple devices
A deeply-linked search now ferrets out info from within installed apps in iOS 9.
You can ask Siri to remind you about a message later. Seems Google did all of this a while ago. Why is this exciting again?
You can play online or iTunes videos directly from your Search.
Siri is going to get smartere, respond more proactively. It responds to user habits. Search shows "Siri suggestions" that show you people you need to call for a meeting, apps you might want to download, apps you might want to use right now, all with clickable shortcuts.
iOS 9 is up next. "First and foremost we wenat to elevate the foundations. improving battery life, enhacing security."
According to the slide, Unity, Blizzard, Feral, Unreal Engine, the Foundry using Metal.
"El Capitan is available to developers today." The public beta follows in July.
Metal was a game development platform Apple announced at their devcon last year at its developer conference last year, designd to capitalize on the available GPUs in Apple's then latest processors. That Metal is now coming to Mac, and with a 50% improvement in rendering and a 70% reduction in CPU usage copared to OpenGL.
"1.4X acceleration in app launching, 2X improvement in snappiness of switching apps, twice as fast to get new mail messages, 4X as fast to get into preview."
Faster and simpler Mission Control from OS X, and an all new way to arrange windows. You can work two windows side by side, drag and drop a photo from an email to your messages. Perfect for smaller laptops.
Sites I like to keep around because I look at them on and off during the day. Now I can pin them." Federighi talking about Safari.
Shake the mouse and the cursor enlarges and pops out at you. Handy....I guess?
OS X El Capitan is the new Mac OS.
So we're starting with OS X. " I'm going to dispense with my normal updates other than to tell you everything's going great. I'd like to bring out my friend and colleague, Craig Federighi."
Tim Cook strides onto the stage. Here we go.....
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