This would bolster the continuity factor further. With this, Siri will, from now on, be available on all Apple devices. ![]() At WWDC 2016, Craig Federighi showcased how the virtual digital assistant will be workable on the macOS platform. Siri arrives on Mac – With Google Now for Android getting consistently better and Microsoft getting good traction with Cortana (on Windows 10) – it’s not surprising that Apple would also spend time and resources to improve the usability and availability of Siri.Note: Game Center in iOS ( which arrived in 2010 ) will make way for the new GameKit platform in iOS 10. Users can delete certain pre-installed apps as well (e.g., Stocks). iOS 10 will come with a fair few customizable home screen widgets too. iPhone app developers will be, for the first time, able to use a SDK to integrate their applications with Siri. iOS 10 – If stability was the prime area of focus when iOS 9 was released, the tenth iteration of Apple’s mobile platform has several new things – from the faster, revamped lockscreen and improvements to Siri, to an all-new ‘ Raise To Wake ’ capability ( remember how Moto X used to do this for glanceable notifications? ). Users also have the option of unlocking their computers with their iPhones or Apple Watch – thanks to the new ‘Auto Unlock’ feature. Apart from mirroring a desktop on multiple systems, people can play a video file on top of their active windows. Arrival of Universal Clipboard is one of the high points in macOS Sierra ( for Continuity across more than one Mac system ). The desktop operating system has been rebranded as macOS, with the upcoming version being named Sierra. OS X is now macOS – This had been predicted by Apple app developers and analysts worldwide, from months before the 2016 WWDC. The NFC-powered Apple Pay will be rolled out to three new markets – Hong Kong, Switzerland and France – by the end of this year.ģ. Apple Pay is now usable on the web via the Safari browser – with secure TouchID authentication support ( through Apple Watch or iPhone ). Apple Pay on Safari – Tim Cook and his team are focused on taking contactless payments technology to the next level. Note: watchOS 3 will have a new texting system called ‘ Scribble ’.Ģ. The Find My Friends and the Reminders apps will be present too. Those who make apps for Apple Watch have also been delighted by the fact that the loading speed of applications on watchOS 3 will be much higher ( up to 7 times faster ). As was widely expected, a fairly large number of new watch faces have been released, while users are going to get an interesting safety SOS feature in the new watchOS iteration. The wearable should, however receive a boost with the launch of watchOS 3 – which was announced at the WWDC keynote. User interest levels have fallen off after the initial hype, and a recent report found that app developers were more interested in making software for tvOS rather than on watchOS ( iOS is, of course, by far the chosen platform ). ![]() watchOS 3 – For some time now, Apple Watch has been struggling.Here’s a recap of all the key takeaways from this year’s Apple WWDC event: Many software experts and mobile app developers have dubbed WWDC 2016 as an ‘ increments ’ event – considering the updates that Apple have come up with, for iOS, OS X ( it’s no longer called that, but more on this later ), watchOS and tvOS. While this year’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) will continue till the 17th of June in San Francisco (Moscone West), the keynote is done and dusted – and we have plenty to talk about the latest ‘ new ’ stuff from Apple.
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