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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”