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Mac hardware

  • Mac air 15 inch
    • M2 chip, bascially like the existing design with a bigger screen
    • Magsafe charging
    • $1299
      • 13 inch down to $1099
  • Mac Studio
    • Adding configuration with M2 max chip
    • And M2 Ultra, two maxes joined together
  • Mac Pro
    • Bringing apple silicon to mac pro
    • Like studio, but with PCI expansion slots
    • Available in tower, but also rack mount

iOS 17

  • Communication
    • Phone app
      • Contact posters, like a photo caller id
        • Calls, and contact cards
        • Like personalizing a lock screen
      • Live voicemail
        • Realtime transcription on the call screen, on device.
    • Facetime
      • Leave a video message if they don’t answer
    • Messages
      • Search filters
      • Catch up arrow
      • Swipe to replly
      • Audio message transcription
      • Check in
        • Auto let others know that you’ve made it home etc.
        • Send them urgent notifications if you don’t make it
      • Changed iMessage apps row to a menu
      • Stickers stuff…
  • Sharing
    • Namedrop
      • Bring phones close together to share contact info
      • Use with a phone and a watch
    • Airdrop, same, bring phones close together
    • Shareplay, same
  • Intelligent input
    • Autocorrect
      • Added a transformer language model, on device
      • Sentence level correction.
      • Inline predictions, with spacebar
    • Dictation
      • Uses same model to improve accuracy
  • New experiences
    • Journal app (coming later this year)
      • Creates suggestions to inspire writing
        • Suggestions available as an API
    • Standby
      • Sideways charging display, like the watch
  • Other
    • Can just say Hey “Siri”
    • Offline maps
    • Pet recognition in photos

iPadOS 17

  • Widgets and lock screen
    • Home screen widgets can be interactive!
    • Customize lock screen, like iphone
      • Lots of widget space
    • Live activities, like iphone
  • Health app, ported to ipad
  • Pdf documents
    • Auto form filling
      • Even on scanned documents
    • Live collaboration on pdfs in notes
  • Other
    • Stage manager flexibility
    • Camera usage
    • Freeform tools, follow

macOS Sonoma

  • Various features from iphone and ipad
    • Animated screensavers
    • Widgets
      • Drag from notification center to the desktop, neat
      • Widgets dim when using another app
      • Widget gallery, including iphone widgets via continuity
      • Interactive
  • Gaming
    • Game mode
      • Ensuring the game gets the highest process priority, less input and audio latencies
    • Metal game porting toolkit
      • Evaluation and graphics conversion
    • “Death Stranding” coming to the mac later this year
  • Video conferencing
    • Presenter overlay, includes your video in a bubble on the shared screen
    • Or as a full overlay putting your presentation as your background
    • Use these video effects in any app
  • Safari
    • Passkeys can be shared via family
    • Profiles
      • Separates cookies and history, etc
    • Web apps
      • “Add to dock”
      • Cool, native support for the existing chrome idea

Home & audio

  • Airpods
    • Adaptive audio, blends noise canceling to hide only distracting sounds.
      • Auto dimms when you speak to others.
    • Improving auto device switching
  • Sharing
    • Suggested speakers
    • Airplay in hotels, scan QR to connect
    • Shareplay for carplay, passengers can add music etc
  • tvOS
    • Updated control center
    • Use iphone to locate siri remote
    • Facetime for apple tv
      • Would work best with a magnetic stand

WatchOS 10

  • Turn crown to see widgets, while on main screen
  • Corner icons in activity app, with full screen pages
  • New faces
    • Palette
    • Snoopy
  • Cycling, bluetooth bike sensors, and using iphone as a display
  • Hiking
    • Compass generates waypoints, last cell service location, and last SOS location
    • Elevation view, 3d view of waypoints
    • Topographic map, with trail search
  • Mindfullness
    • Log how you are feeling
    • Take standardized questionaires for risk of depression, etc
  • Vision health, miopia
    • Watch can measure amount of time in daylight, to try to hit reccomended amount, for kids
    • Screen distance, suggests moving device further away from face

Apple Vision Pro

  • Classic “One more thing…”
  • Augmented reality device
  • Looks like funny scuba goggles
  • Can jump into an environment, more like a VR landscape, or use it as the backgroud for an app
  • Uses eyes, hands, and voice for control
  • Browse by looking, tap fingers to select, or flick to scroll
  • Speak to dictate in a text field, or virtual keyboard
  • Displays your eyes on the outside of the device, to help others notice you can see them
  • Also works with bluetooth, keyboards and trackpads.
  • Or even mac, using vision as an external display
  • Facetime was discussed, but they glossed over what the vision user looks like to others
    • They got back to this, you scan your face at the beginning. and creates an AI generated version of yourself
  • Can capture 3d spatial video and play it back
  • Movies and 3d movies too. Can make them appear projected on a big screen far away.
  • Apple arcade games with controller support.
  • Separate, sizeable, light blockers and headbands
  • Uses M2, and new chip, R1 for realtime sensor processing
  • visionOS, a whole new platform. new app store, some new frameworks, new targets
  • Using existing frameworks like ARKit, RealityKit, etc.
  • New framework for reality composer
  • Optic id, like face id, but for your eyes.
  • Apps cannot track where you are looking, only when you click your fingers.
  • Starts at $3499, available “early next year”