Apple’s WDDC Keynote Address was all about the new Operating Systems for their watch, TV, Macs, and portable devices. Lots of great new features coming your way…in about 4 months. That’s right, everything Apple announced yesterday is all in the future. Sad, in a way, at least for our “we want it now” culture. But, never-the-less, there are some nice new features coming in the operating systems.
In Apple’s defense, this was a developers conference. Thousands of them came to San Francisco to hear all the news as it relates to them. And they were not disappointed. The biggest news for them was that Apple is finally opening up some of its closely held apps for developer input. That includes Siri, Apple Maps, Messages, and a few others. This is a major step and hopefully will eventually result in better products for us all in the future.
The one thing they never mentioned was iTunes. There were several stories before the conference that iTunes was going to be completely revamped which was a big deal for many, many folks, including myself. It was never mentioned.
By far, the biggest changes were for iOS 10. This is the OS that runs our iPhones and iPads. Several upgrades were demonstrated and some look exciting (but not overwhelming). For those of you interested in what happened yesterday, our first three stories will tell you a lot more. So enjoy. Be sure and check out our tips and tricks for computers and portable devices to see what you can do to make your computing better right now. -JRC
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