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Swift Playgrounds for iPad for me is a real killer app. Integration with extensions mean stock apps like Maps and Messages stand a good chance at becoming real competition to Facebook’s Messenger and Snapchat apps. Cupertino looking firmly and squarely at Menlo Park. The demo of Messages was another favourite, despite the technical hiccups half way through. Interesting new design language being used in Music and News, perhaps trying to adjust the target audience to a younger demographic? Certainly made both apps feel less stuffy to me. I’m excited to see what might come of an API that can search through the objects found in photos.Īpple Music - what a demo! I loved Boz’s style. Sliding to the right to get to Camera might take a bit of getting used to, but I appreciate the issue that TouchID now being so fast that something had to change with the lock screen UI.ĭevelopers now get API hooks into more of iOS, which can only be a good thing to herald in new types of apps. The new lock screen and associated integration looks exactly what it should have been all along. ![]() This reaffirmed the sheer amount of new stuff in iOS - let’s not forget that it’s the most important platform by far for Apple. Less than half way into the keynote and we are already at iOS. Let’s see if I’m ready to talk to my machine. APPLE KEYNOTE JUNE 2016 FULLTabs everywhere - done at an OS-level so multi-window apps get the feature for free - my hunch is that this, along with PiP, is the start of a push to get more users using full screen mode. APPLE KEYNOTE JUNE 2016 FREEA tool to help people free up space on their Mac, I suspect a reaction to the glut of mediocre apps that proclaim to do similar tasks filling up the Mac App Store charts. Apple Pay in Safari, huge news that didn’t raise many eyebrows. Universal Clipboard, for me as a heavy user of a clipboard management app (Alfred) is a real killer feature that only the OS can provide at the level of integration it needs to be done. APPLE KEYNOTE JUNE 2016 MAC OSName change! But for those of us who have been around the block a few times, everything old is new again as we return to a variation of the classic Mac OS name that saw us through the 1990s. Lots of changes, too many to mention here. APIs and features to make the Cable companies happy. More frameworks arrive from iOS, all very welcome. APPLE KEYNOTE JUNE 2016 TVSingle Sign-On is a really nice time saving feature that acknowledges the inherent issues with TV and related input mechanisms, and helps things become easier. tvOSĪ bit odd that Remote.app was mentioned as it’s been out for a while, but the changes it is receiving are quite substantial. This is for me the type of watchOS that the device should have shipped with: familiar, fluid and fast. It’s great to see the OS become simpler and more iPhone-like, much needed. I am interested in how many of these improvements will come for free, from the perspective of an app developer and user. APPLE KEYNOTE JUNE 2016 SOFTWAREThe system software changes that bring these speedups will no doubt require apps to be updated to use the new APIs, or at least be changed to cope with the new view hierarchies. That said, if it heralds the performance increases that were demonstrated on stage it could finally be time the watch fulfils expectations. And second, it’s the hardware the most users need convincing of. First, it’s the platform in need of the most change. This had to go first, in my mind, for a couple of reasons. ![]() I hope that trend continues as the old guard make way for the new. Some really great presenters appeared on stage - other than Craig Federighi, of course - I remember at least five that really made an impression. More focussed, more features, more new faces. If you missed it you can watch a recording of the keynote at Fast and funįor me that was a markedly better keynote than last year. This year I also had the company of a nice a cold drink in my hand as it’s a warm evening in London, UK, the day is winding down just as the conference is ramping up. Having recently left Apple it was interesting to view the event as an outsider for the first time in a while, with no prior knowledge of anything that was announced. June is the highlight of the year for any Apple fan, with WWDC being the focal point of all eyes on Apple. ![]()
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