This week we have a special early episode to cover everything that Apple announced during the 2019 WWDC Keynote Event. They covered what’s coming in watchOS, iOS, the new iPadOS, Mac OS and showed off the new Mac Pro! Hear our thoughts and takeaways. Have questions? Ask away!
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Show Notes and Links:
Apple’s official keynote video
Dave takes notes during the keynote, here they are, only slightly cleaned up:
- Go Back to Sleep developers intro video
- Hardware, software, services
- March 2019 event recap
- Apple News+
- Apple Arcade, later this year
- Apple Card
- Video of For All Mankind, Apple TV Plus
- tvOS
- Apple TV 4K
- Multiuser support for tvOS
- Xbox & PlayStation controller support for Apple TV
- Screensavers, under the ocean
- watchOS
- More complete picture of how you can stay active
- Activity trends
- Hearing health -decibel meter for environmental noise
- Female cycle tracking
- More Apple apps to watch
- Audiobooks
- Voice memos
- Calculator
- Independent on watch, no companion on phone
- Extended runtime API
- Streaming Audio API
- New Apple Watch faces and bands
- Taptic chimes, on the hour, bird song
- Apps directly on watch, App Store
- Health
- iOS 13
- iOS has 97% customer satisfaction
- 85% iOS 12 installed base
- Android 9, 10% adoption rate
- Performance
- 30% faster Face ID unlock
- App downloads, 50% smaller, updates are 60% smaller, 2x launch speed
- Dark mode
- Swipe keyboard (quick path)
- Share sheet suggestions
- Time synced lyrics in Apple Music
- Maps Improvements
- Look around (Street View)
- Location Security
- Allow just once
- Background tracking alerts
- WiFi and Bluetooth protections
- Apple Single Log in
- Sign in with Apple
- Email address obfuscation
- Home Kit security improvements
- All new editing for photos and now video
- CAN ROTATE VIDEO!!!!
- Duplicate and clutter removal
- NO SORT ORDER CHANGE SEEN (BOO)
- Lots of Siri improvements
- Audio sharing, with tap (squirt?)
- Handoff to HomePod
- Live radio, 100,000 radio stations
- Car play, 90% us, 70% globally
- Calendar, music, Siri works with 3rd party apps
- Shortcuts
- iPad OS
- Icon view, list view, and now column view
- File preview, quick actions, rich metadata
- iCloud drive folder sharing
- SMB file sharing
- USB Drives and SD Card
- import photos right into apps
- Desktop-class browsing
- Download manager
- 20ms latency currently
- 9ms now
- Tighter grid of icons
- Swipe over to pin widgets
- Slider over app switcher
- Split view, multi-window support for the same app
- App expose on iPad with all spaces in one place
- Better email composing with multiview
- Files
- Safari
- Fonts, custom from Apple store
- Multi-touch updates
- Pencil
- Tools pallet update
- API so 3rd party apps can use it
- System-wide markup support
- Palettes now drag-able, minimize-able, etc.
- Secure Video, analyzed on the device, encrypted sent to iCloud, won’t count against storage
- HomeKit-enabled routers, Linksys, Eero, Spectrum (charter)
- Video, Memoji video with new looks
- Memoji stickers
- Mac Pro
- Cheese Grater 2.0
- up to 28-core Intel Xeon
- up to 1.5 terabytes of RAM
- 8 PCI slots – 4 double, 3 single, 1 IO
- Two Gigabit Ethernet ports
- Graphics
- MPX module
- Radeon Pro 580X
- Radeon Pro Vega II x 2
- Can use 2 modules
- 3 streams of 8k video
- 12 stream of 4K
- Afterburner
- Cooling system
- 300 cubic feet per minute air flow
- Optional wheels
- New Display
- HDR
- An arm like old iMac
- 32-inch LCD
- 6016?
- 6k retina
- 40% larger then iMac display
- Accurate color
- Wide viewing angle, 25x better than typical
- Matt option, etched glass
- New backlight, 1000 nits brightness
- Extreme Dynamic Range (XDR)
- Pro Display XDR
- 6 displays on Mac Pro
- Articulated and rotates
- Removable for transport
- VESA mount
- $5999 Mac available this fall Fall
- Rack deployment compatible
- $4999 display w/o stand
- Mac OS – Catalina
- Sync in the sidebar in finder, 4K
- SideCar iPad as a second display for Mac
- Wired and wirelessly
- Voice control, also on iOS
- New dictation with numbers
- Find My App
- iPhone, friends
- Locate offline apple devices, Bluetooth beacon
- Activation lock macs with T2
- Xcode checkbox includes iOS and Mac
- Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple TV
- Screen time
- Project Catalyst(Marzipan)
- AR
- People Occlusion
- Motion Capture
- Very cool
- Reality Kit
- Reality Composer
- ARKit 3
- Minecraft Earth
- Swift UI – New UI framework
- Build Watch apps
- Common API across all platforms
- All Betas – Public Seeds July, Developer Betas Today, Release in fall
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