MacDailyNews presents live coverage of Apple’s WWDC 2017 keynote address

MacDailyNews ^ | June 5, 2017

[Swordmaker]

Apple CEO Tim Cook and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference with a keynote address today, June 5th, at 10am PDT/ 1pm EDT.

The WWDC 2017 keynote address will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California as Apple’s renowned developer community comes together to learn about the future of macOSX, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS.

Apple today will stream the company’s WWDC Keynote live via Safari browser and Apple TV. Live streaming uses Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. HLS requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Safari on iOS 7.0 or later, a Mac with Safari 6.0.5 or later on OS X v10.8.5 or later, or a PC with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. Streaming via Apple TV requires an Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation) with software 6.2 or later or an Apple TV (4th generation).

The big event starts today at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT here: https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2017/. Open it in one browser tab or window and this MacDailyNews page in another to comment on the proceedings in real-time.

MacDailyNews will offer live notes during Apple’s keynote on this page. We’ll see you back here just before 10am PDT/ 1pm EDT.

Live notes from Apple CEO Tim Cook’s WWDC 2017 keynote address in reverse chronological order:

• End of keynote
  
• Cook says thank you.
  
• Cook: Special fireside chat with Michelle Obama tomorrow in McEnery Convention Center
  
• Cook invites devs to hand-on section and workshops
  
• Cook recaps today’s announcements
  
• Cook retakes stage

• HomePod will be available for $349 (US) in white and space gray starting in December initially in Australia, the UK and the US.HomePod is compatible with iPhone 5s and later, running iOS 11. (Pricing in Australia and the UK will be announced later this year.)
  
• HomePod will only cost $349 (That is a surprisingly great price – MDN Ed.)
  
• Anywhere in the world, you can use your iPhone or iPad’s Home app to control HomePod and your HomeKit devices (encrypted for privacy)
  
• Siri in HomePod is also a home assistant: News, Messages, Unit conversion, Reminders, Timers, Sports, Traffic, Home control, etc.
  
• HomePod: Powerful, spatially aware, Siri musicologist
  
• “Hey Siri” works with HomePod
  
• HomePod can get Apple Music directly from the cloud. It knows your preferences, your playlists, your listening patterns
  
• The built-in musicologist. Designed to work with Apple Music
  
• When you set up two in one room, they work together
  
  

  Apple’s all-new HomePod

  
  
• Speaker knows where it is in relation to walls, furniture, etc.
  
• Sounds incredible
  
• Apple A8 chip – the biggest brain ever in a speaker
  
• 4 inch upward-facing woofer
  
• precision acoustics horns
  
• 7-array tweeter pack – each with individual driver
  
• Amazing audio technology
  
• Just like iPad reinvented music in our pockets, HomePod is going to reinvent music in our homes
  
• HomePod: Comes in black or white
  
• Sneak peek
  
• Coming later this year
  
• Powerful, spatial awareness, musicologist contained within
  
• Apple has been “hard at work for many years” on such a speaker
  
• We ant to combine great sound with smart speakers
  
• Schiller takes stage
  
• Just like we did with portable music, we want to reinvent home music
  
• Cook: What about our homes?
  
• AirPods make it magical
  
• Apple Music: 40 million songs in your pocket
  
• Cook retakes stage

• “Finally, the promise of iPad is realized.” – SteveJack

• iPad Pro + iOS 11 video.
  
• iOS 11 available to devs today; beta to registered devs by end of month; public release later this year
  
• Federighi retakes stage
  
• The new Flick Keyboard makes typing easier on iPad Pro
  
• Apple Pencil demo – Toby Patterson
  
• Notes now has a built-in document scanner
  
• Handritten text in Notes is now searchable (thanks to machine learning)
  
• Apple Pencil integrated deeply in iOS 11
  
• Files on iPad Pro is like Finder on the Mac
  
• File management on iPad Pro!
  
• Drag and Drop and the new Files app will change the way people use- and think of – iPad Pro
  
• Multitasking is much easier and more intuitive
  
• Files supports iCloud, third-parties, spring-loaded folders, nested folders, etc.
  
• New app: Files
  
• New Keyboard
  
• Drag and Drop comes to iPad! (“It’s a dragfest!” – Hair Force One)
  
• New App Switcher
  
• Summon the Dock anytime from the bottom of the screen – can be used for multitasking
  
• iPad+iOS 11: The largest iOS release ever for iPad

• All-new iPad Pro available today, ship next week
  
• 64GB storage $649 for 10.5-inch, $799 for 12.9-inch
  
• New Smart Covers – including new sleeve with actual Apple Pencil storage (imaging that! – MDN Ed.)
  
• iPad Pro supports USB 3 and fast charging (half the time as before)
  
• 7MP FaceTime HD – same as iPhone 7
  
• 12MP camera – same as iPhone 7
  
• iPad Pro: 10-hour battery life
  
• Affinity Photo for the iPad Pro is available via App Store today
  
• No noticeable latency whatsoever
  
• Affinity Photo demo on new iPad Pro
  
• A10X: Six-core CPU; 30% faster CPU, 40% faster graphics vs. the already industry-leading A9X
  
• iPad Pros can adjust refresh rate based on imagery; saves battery
  
• Apple Pencil gets industry best 20ms latency
  
• ProMotion: New iPad Pro’s get 120Hz refresh rates – all motion is much smoother, crisper, more responsive; dramatic improvement
  
• 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pros get new better displys, 600 nits, HDR video
  
• Full size Apple Smart Keyboard
  
• Full-size on screen keyboard
  
• Weighs just one pound
  
• 40% reduction of bezels
  
• 10.5-inch Retina display
  
• Apple intros all-new iPad Pro
  
• Greg Joswiak: iPad Pro

• Special Chinese features for iOS 11
  
• Wingnut demo: Watch a movie through your iPad as if you’re shooting it live
  
• Overnight, ARKit will become the largets AR platform in the world
  
• ARKit provides fast and stable motion tracking, identifies planes, surfaces, ambient light – uses the high performance Camera, GPU, CPU in iOS devices
  
• Add virtual objects to reality – very fast and realistic
  
• Augmented Reality: ARKit for developers – demo
  
• Craig Federighi retakes stage

• AAPL: 153.79, -1.66 (-1.07%), as of 2:28PM EDT

• iOS 11 App Store demo
  
• App Store gets improved product pages
  
• App Store gets tabs: Today, Games, Apps, Updates, Search (look is Apple Music on iOS-esque)
  
• Apple to completely redesign the App Store
  
• App Store to get phased releases – devs can phase new versions in over time
  
• Apple’s App Store is a trusted and safe place for users and a great opportunity for developers
  
• $70 billion paid out to devs to date
  
• Over 180 billion apps downloaded to date
  
• App Store: 500 million weekly visit Store
  
• Phil Schiller takes stage to discuss App Store
  
• Devs get MusicKit API for Apple Music
  
• Apple Music gets “Friends are Listening To” section
  
• Apple Music: 27 million paid subscribers
  
• Your Apple TV can control multi-room audio home-wide
  
• HomeKit gets “Speakers” and new AirPlay 2 protocol (multi-room audio in iOS 11)
  
• Messages with “urgent” can get through
  
• Do Not Disturb While Driving mode: Keeps the iPhone off. No Notifications while driving (this will actually save lives – MDN Ed.)
  
• Maps gets Lane Guidance
  
• In iOS 11, Apple Maps gets Malls (just in time for the death of malls, no less – MDN Ed.) and Airports (limited number to start, more coming over time)
  
• Siri uses your Safari searches and offers you relevant news, spelling suggestions, etc.
  
• Memories can auto format based on device turning between portrait and landscape
  
• Long Exposure effect
  
• You can designate a better Key Photo in Live Photos
  
• Control Center now in a single page; 3D Touch enabled (much better – MDN Ed.)
  
• Major redesign to iOS 11 Control Center – demo
  
• Live Photos can now be trimmed, editing further
  
• Memories now offers even more options
  
• Depth API will be available for developers
  
• Portrait Mode greatly improved in iOS 11
  
• Camera app gets HEVC (H.265) – up to 2X better compression; HEIF for Live Photos
  
• What Siri learns about you on-device is synced across all of your devices; privacy is maintained
  
• In iOS 11, Siri uses on-device learning
  
• Siri Intelligence: Understands your context and, ultimately, what you want next
  
• Siri gets translation (beta) for English to Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish with more coming
  
• Siri gets new voices created with machine learning
  
• Available across all iOS devices and Apple Watch (watchOS), too
  
• Apple Pay P2P is integrated right into Messages as an app
  
• Apple Pay for P2P payments
  
• Apple Pay: Witll be at more than 50% of US retailers by end of year
  
• Messages now synced across devices avail for both iOS and macOS
  
• Redesigned App drawer in Message (so now the average Joe and Jane can actually find and use them!)
  
• Craig Federighi takes stage: iOS 11. It’s a big one
  
• Apple going to turn iOS up to 11
  
• iOS: 86% on iOS 10 vs. 7% on latest fragmandroid version

• Cook retakes stage: “That iMac Pro really is bad ass.”
  
• Available in December
  
• iMac Pro starts at $4999
  
• iMac Pro can drive up to 44 million pixels
  
• 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports
  
• Up to 4TB of 3GB/s SSD
  
• Can add up to 128 GB ECC memory
  
• Ships withAMD Radeon Vega graphics, up to 16GB VRAM – 11 Teraflops of single precision compute power; up to 22 Teraflops of half precision
  
• iMac Pro ships with 8-Core, a 10-Core, or an 18-Core Xeon
  
• Dual centrifugal fan solution
  
• By far, the most powerful iMac – in fact, the most powerful Mac ever made
  
• Same external design, but in Space Gray. 5K display
  
• Sneak peek: new iMac Pro shipping later this year
  
• All seven new Macs ship today
  
• New MacBook and MacBook Pro updates: Get Kaby Lake, too. MacBook Air gets MHz bump, too
  
• New iMac with macOS High Sierra demos of VR content creation: Star Wars
  
• 27-inch 5K: Radeon Pro 570, 575, & 580 options – a great platform for VR content creation
  
• 21.5-inch 4K: Radeon Pro 555 & 560; up to 3X faster
  
• 21.5-inch entry-level: Intel Iris Plus – up top 80% faster
  
• Next gen. graphics
  
• Two USB-C (Thunderbolt 3) connectors
  
• 27-inch iMac can go up to 64 GB RAM (from 32GB)
  
• 21.5-inch iMac can go up to 32GB RAM (from 16GB)
  
• 7th gen. Intel Core “Kaby Lake” processors
  
• iMac get new displays: 500 nits, 43% brightr, 10-bit dithering, one billion colors

• macOS dev beta avail. today; public beat later this month; public release later this year
  
• Final Cut Pro X; Steam VR engines coming to Mac, Unity and Unreal, too
  
• Apple doubling down on pro content creation: Metal for VR coming to High Sierra
  
• Metal for external graphics supports Thunderbolt 3 to external graphics
  
• The Mac Window Server will use Metal 2
  
• Metal 2 is tremendously fast
  
• Metal API: New version: Metal 2
  
• Video: H.265 HEVC built-into macOS High Sierra and Apple pro apps
  
• macOS High Sierra: Time for Apple File System as default!
  
• Apple opens up Photos printing to third-parties
  
• New Photos editing tools
  
• Greatly improved Faces – synchronized across devices
  
• New enhancements to Photos for macOS High Sierra
  
• Mail now offers split screen in Compose mode; uses 35% less disk space for storing your email
  
• Safari offers Intelligent Tracking Prevention – uses machine learning to maintain privacy
  
• Safari has autoplay video blocking (you can always push play)
  
• Safari is the world’s fastest desktop browser in macOS High Sierra
  
• This name is “full baked” according to Apple’s marketing team
  
• Introducing macOS High Sierra
  
• Perfecting macOS this year
  
• Craig Federighi takes stage
  
• macOS
  
• Cook: “Mac, the heart and soul of Apple”
  
• Cook retakes stage

• watchOS 4 dev preview available today; watchOS 4 coming this fall
  
• Native core Bluetooth now supported – Dexcom glucose monitoring, for example
  
• A lot more coming in watchOS 4 – new flashlight, blinking light for evening runs
  
• Watch will tell you you need to walk X number of minutes to close your Activity rings
  
• Apple News app now available on Apple Watch
  
• New vertical scrolling Dock on Apple Watch in watchOS 4
  
• Music app also offers multiple playlists 🙂
  
• Apple Watch gets new music app – automatically sync music you listen to – much easier!
  
• watchOS 4 enables 2-way data exchange with NFC-equipped gym equipment (compatible with about 80% of equipment in gyms today)
  
• Can now do multiple workouts in a single session
  
• HIIT training workout added (finally!)
  
• Pool swims are enhanced with auto sets
  
• Closing rings get more impressive celebrations
  
• Activity notifications are more personalized – prompt you with reminders and challenges – eprsonalized to you
  
• New Pixar “Toy Story” faces: Woody, Jessie, Buzz – with short vignettes
  
• Kaleidoscope face
  
• An intelligent personal assistant right on your wrist
  
• Watchface changes throughout the day based on your needs
  
• New Siri watchface – automatically displays info that’s important to you – uses machine learning
  
• watchOS 4
  
• Kevin Lynch takes stage
  
• Next up: Apple Watch. Best-selling smartwatch by far. Highest user satisfaction by far

• “You’ll be hearing a lot more about tvOS later this year”
  
• Cook pitching Amazon Prime Video
  
• Amazon is coming to TV app and all Apple TVs with Amazon Prime Video
  
• First up: tvOS

• 6 important announcements today
  
• “Apple’s doing great.” too busy for recaps
  
• tvOS, watchOS, macOS, iOS – Apple’s four platforms

• Youngest and oldest devs featured
  
• 5300 attendees, 75 countries represented at WWDC 2017
  
• Apple dev community: 16 million registered devs worldwide; added 3 million last year alone
  
• This is going to be the best and biggest WWDC ever!
  
• It’s great to be back from San Jose. 15 years since last WWDC in San Jose
  
• Apple CEO Tim Cook takes the stage (applause)

• Apple to devs: “Keep making apps. The world is depending on you.”
  
• New Apple employee unplugs wrong plug – everyone’s apps disappear worldwide – mayhem ensues…
  
• Intro video

• Here we go…
  
• Things are running a bit behind schedule in San Jose today
  
• Keynote to begin shortly…

• Apple Store remains offline:
  

• Approximately 3 minutes to go!

• AAPL: 153.79, -1.66 (-1.07%), as of 12:56PM EDT
  
• AAPL: 153.94, -1.51 (-0.97%), as of 12:30PM EDT
  
• AAPL: 153.80, -1.65 (-1.06%), as of 11:25AM EDT

[freedumb2003]

I see Apple leads with yet another copycat product.

It may (or may not) be better than what it is imitating but once again Apple fails to lead.

But the fanboys will gobble it up nonetheless.

[Swordmaker]

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[texas booster]

Apple introduces really good new products and the stock price drops?

More proof that Wall Street is ... well managed.

[SamAdams76]

Those new speakers sound pretty awesome. I’m going to get me a couple later this year. Probably another MacBook Pro laptop as well.

[freedumb2003]

..Those new speakers sound pretty awesome. I’m going to get me a couple later this year. Probably another MacBook Pro laptop as well.<<

No doubt. Apple has become an extremely good “me too” company that takes existing ideas and making them very good. Just like they introduced the Apple watch 2+ years after the Google watches, they introduce voice controlled speakers also about 2+ years after they are produced by other manufacturers.

This is good as those manufacturers will have to play catch-up now and make theirs even better and cheaper.

It is just sad Apple no longer means innovation. And has not for quite some time. It just means expensive.

[freedumb2003]

>>Apple introduces really good new products and the stock price drops?<<

They introduced a copycat product that proves what people have been saying for years: Apple can’t innovate.

[Swordmaker]

I see Apple leads with yet another copycat product.

It may (or may not) be better than what it is imitating but once again Apple fails to lead.

Are you referring to the HomePod? If so, the Siri portion is an after thought. The SOUND portion was the lead feature. Seven speakers plus a sub-woofer, all dynamically controlled by a A8X processor. It dynamically senses the environmental space it occupies and automatically adjusts the sound for the ideal listening experience. If there are TWO HomePods in the room, they automatically work together to enhance each other wirelessly. A single HomePod can produce stereo sound and a center channel, as well as bounce rear sounds off the back walls. Two can do far more.

Voice commands can work with the music working at full volume. . . and Siri will respond only when invoked with the words "Hey Siri," but otherwise is not connected to the Internet until that phrase is spoken.

It also did not "lead." It was the last thing. What part of "read in reverse order" do you fail to grasp?

[Swordmaker]

Apple introduces really good new products and the stock price drops?

Apple didn't announce the iPhone 8, which for Wall Street is all they were looking for. Of course such an announcement would have been highly stupid on Apple's part. Announcing a new iPhone in June for release in September would KILL all iPhone sales for the summer. Look for the iPhone 8 (or what ever they will be calling it) in Mid-August, the traditional time for such an announcement.

For Wall Street, the only thing that counts is iPhone, iPhone, iPhone. . . and then iPhone.

[Swordmaker]

No doubt. Apple has become an extremely good “me too” company that takes existing ideas and making them very good. Just like they introduced the Apple watch 2+ years after the Google watches, they introduce voice controlled speakers also about 2+ years after they are produced by other manufacturers.

In actual fact, Apple engineers were talking about the next big area was an Apple Watch, SIX MONTHS before Samsung (not Google) pushed out a so-so Android based watch based on what the Apple engineers let slip Apple was working on. However, there had been earlier attempts at wearable computers that failed miserably. The times were not ripe for those attempts.

I could go back and search out the article about the Apple engineer discussing what might be coming up from Apple around this time of year talking about the watch and what they envisioned it could do. . . months before Samsung started hinting about the first Samsung Gear watch. But I'm not going to bother. You can look for it if you like. I posted it on FR.

Nice try. . . but you are wrong.

[glorgau]

I remember when I was working at Apple and tried to get the other guys to start a rumor at a conference. All the other engineers were too chicken. i thought it would pretty funny. ;-)

[freedumb2003]

>>n actual fact, Apple engineers were talking about the next big area was an Apple Watch, SIX MONTHS before Samsung (not Google) pushed out a so-so Android based watch based on what the Apple engineers let slip <<

Sure — where have we heard “sources inside Apple say?” Name names or admit it is fake news. The google watches (multiple manufacturers) were in the market 2+ years before the apple watch. That is a fact with no conspiracy theory attached.

And the “new” speaker is just derivative of what is already on the market now and has been for some time.

“Apple: we make what already is a little better!”

[SamAdams76]

I like the Apple products. They are easy to use and last long time. So even though they are more expensive at point of sale, their utility makes them actually cheaper. I’m still using my original iPod from 2003 in my garage. It is hooked up to my stereo out there but plays a lot of 90s music like Hootie & The Blowfish and Pearl Jam.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

You forgot to add they have a great beat and easy to dance to.

[House Atreides]

Like moths drawn irresistibly to the light so Apple haters, from their darkness, are drawn irresistibly to Apple related threads.

By the way, your posts here reak of ignorance as well as envy & jealousy. I feel sorry for you.

[Swordmaker]

The google watches (multiple manufacturers) were in the market 2+ years before the apple watch. That is a fact with no conspiracy theory attached.

That's about the right timeline... but it was merely Samsung that brought out the first Android watch.

it was not "multiple manufacturers" that were "first." There can be only one to be the first copier of the report that was made of what Apple was working on. Copying is what Samsung does. This time they just didn't have an existing product to copy.

[texas booster]

I am considering a full system upgrade in the next year, especially once the Intel Optane starts shipping. I've kept to Win xx systems at home due to inertia, but may take a leap in a different direction with these new announcements.

One thought - can an iPad Pro replace my need for a desktop? It will require a lot of learning new apps on my part but that time may have come.

I buy my Intel systems bleeding edge (except for the OS), and always look for F@H compatibility. Not sure if F@H can work on an A10x processor - but could it work inside a browser, folding away?

In all fairness, I spend almost as much on a new PC as I would buying a new Mac. Being in the business, I would never expect a five year old PC to be functional if I didn't buy high end.

So the choice will probably come down to which OS I want to use - Win, OS/X or IOS, or which combination at one time.

[minnesota_bound]

Apple CEO Tim Cook speech leaked out: We were wrong about AppleOS. Today we are installing Windows 10 on all our devices!”

[Swordmaker]

I buy my Intel systems bleeding edge (except for the OS), and always look for F@H compatibility. Not sure if F@H can work on an A10x processor - but could it work inside a browser, folding away?

Folding at Home is not a good idea on anything that is dependent on a battery for its operation.

There is F@H for OS X and macOS.

Macs last far longer and better than PCs do. . . and remain functional even longer. In addition, the Mac can allow you to use all of those OSes and then some.

[freedumb2003]

>>By the way, your posts here reak of ignorance as well as envy & jealousy. I feel sorry for you.<<

It is fact and amusement. Just dropping some facts that your god Apple is a really good improver — maybe the best ever. They ceased being an innovator technical generations ago.

But they improve really well — for a price. You guys pay about twice what the product are worth for that little logo. Kind of the Starbucks of technology.