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Mac hardware
Mac air 15 inch
M2 chip, bascially like the existing design with a bigger screen
Magsafe charging
$1299
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
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
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”
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