Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple’s incremental improvements at WWDC 2015”.
Every year, more than 6000 developers flocked to San Francisco for Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, which gives them their first look at all of the new features. Apple is bringing to its increasing number of operating systems iOS for mobile devices, OS 10 for the desktop and now watch OS welcome to WWDC 2015. This developer conference continues to be the epicenter of change for not only Apple but the industry. First big thing Apple announced today I OS 10 El Capitan, the next version of their desktop operating system. This is a very incremental release.
They emphasized improved graphics performance. There are some new ways to manage windows a little bit more easily and there’s gon na be various new gestures for managing your mail. Things like that. Some people are gon na. Look at this and say it’s kind of boring, but me personally, I’m ok with the operating system taking a year to just get really stable, get a little bit faster work on the graphics performance and not worry about introducing some major new feature. So El Capitan is gon na roll out as a free upgrade in the fall.
It’S not gon na change your world, but it is gon na make things just a little bit nicer. Ios 9, another fairly incremental release for Apple, although it does come with a handful of big new features, one of them is called proactive, a new kind of Siri that will attempt to anticipate your needs without you having to do anything so swipe to the right and You’Ll see people, you often talk with you’ll, see apps that you often use, and it will try to kind of help you get where you’re going without you having to do as much as you used to before another big feature in iOS 9. That’S interesting! If you have an iPad, you can now do split screens, so you could say work on a document in most of the screen and then have Twitter running on the right-hand side or you could have you know a web browser open with a picture and picture video Of something that you’re watching on Netflix, if you have an iPad, I have a feeling. This is something you’re going to be using a lot Apple also showed off news newsreader. That will remind you a lot of Flipboard. You tell it your interests and the publications you like, and it will organize all of those together in one place.
Still a lot of questions about this as we’re heading outside the event is apples splitting revenue with publishers. How exactly is that going to work? I don’t know, generally speaking, I’m pretty down on these kinds of apps, but Apple, says they’ve found a way to make reading beautiful on iPad and iPhones, and that’s gon na be coming out shortly. The third thing Apple talked about today was watch OS, which is, of course, the operating system for the Apple watch, which just came out, and the big news here is that starting soon developers are going to be able to write apps natively for the watch. Whereas before you used to have to route everything through an iPhone, so now developers can build brand-new experiences just for the watch and you should start seeing those roll into the App Store shortly.
The last big thing Apple talked about today: Apple music, its long-awaited Spotify competitor. You pay Apple ten bucks a month. You can stream anything. You want on demand without any ads.
It also comes with a global radio. Station called beats one that streams 24/7 and a service called connect that will contain extras from your favorite artists like lyrics or song, demos there’s a lot in there. I want to get my hands on it and play with it. It didn’t blow me away, but it does have a really cool integration with Siri, so you can just activate Siri tell it what you want to hear it’ll start playing immediately.
The big theme of today was incremental improvement. We saw lots of things that are getting a little bit better. Some people are gon na say, that’s boring. I actually think it’s great.
This is how software improves over time. At the end of the day, I saw a lot of stuff that I can’t wait to get my hands on .