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Stuff is beginning to leak out and it looks like Home Automation is going to be a big thing...

HomeKit Compatible devices start to appear

I find this particularly interesting...

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Mac OS 10.11 'El Capitan' - basically Snow Yosemite, a performance and optimisation build.

Pulls a lot of UI tricks from iOS like gestures to swipe right & left on list items.
Spotlight has much more 'natural language' searching
Split screen mode robbed from Windows 8
Between 1.4X and 2X speed improvements in apps & GUI.
Metal graphic stack/API being ported from iOS to OSX - reduces CPU load of graphics rendering by around 70%
Developer preview today, public beta next month, available as a free upgrade in Autumn


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iOS 9 (doesn't get a name)

Big update to Siri - 40% improved rate of correctly parsing speech, more 'awareness' in terms of location & content
'Proactivity' - the phone remembers and prepares for events by detecting patterns of behaviour and location routines
Search API so developers can augment Siri with app-related results
Apple pay - More retailers & CC companies in the US - Square to work with Apple Pay in the Autumn
Pinterest to introduce 'payable pins' - stuff you can buy from PInterest on iOS using Apple pay
Apple Pay in the UK next month -
_______ clients include M&S and Waitrose (says a lot about the typical Apple customer..)
_______ Banks include Natwest, Nationwide, HSBC, First Direct, MBNA, Lloyds, TSB, Santander
_______ Direct payment on the London underground (i.e. same as Oyster)
Passbook App renamed to 'Wallet'
Notes app expanded - now looks a lot like Evernote
new (very cool looking) task switcher
Maps to include public transport data (only London initially in the UK) including navigation inside stations
News - news aggregation app, that'll stuff Flipboard (which it very much looks like) - web pages can be 'News optimised'

One extra hour battery life due to optimisation
'low power mode' - average 3 more hours, very similar to a feature Sony android phones have.
Upgrade will only need 1.3GB of space
Many more data items in Healthkit
Remote homekit control via iCloud (not sure why you would...)
Wireless Carplay (which is cool, but it'll be years before cars have it installed if at all)

Ooh, Swift 2 and UI testing in Xcode (geek)
Swift Is going Open Source! (more geek)

Public beta later this year, live update in Autumn, works on every device iOS 8 does.


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iPad specific changes in iOS 9

Keyboard now has a context sensitive toolbar
Keyboard is now a two-finger trackpad for moving cursor & selecting
Shortcut cheat sheets for hardware keyboards
Split screen multiasking (again very windows 8)
PiP 'float on top' video player


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watchOS 2.0 - developer beta available today, free update in the autumn

New watch faces (location aware time lapse watch faces? why?)
New 'Alarm clock' app/nightstand view
App developers can make 'complications' (basically watch face widgets)
'Time Travel' - you can wind the clock into the past or future to see future or past notifications and events (not available in Stocks app)
UI tweaks - you can now have more than 12 friends! Multicolour drawings! You can reply to emails!
Siri integration with health app - so you can just tell Siri what you're going to do (e.g. a workout) and the watch will monitor it for you#
Public transport navigation from iOS 9 maps
Native apps - watchkit 2.0, watch can connect to known wifi networks to upload & download data if phone isn't present, access to most hardware functions
Control homekit devices from your watch


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Tim Cook just said 'One more thing :D'

Apple Music (not sure why this is being announced at WWDC but anyway)

So it's basically Beats streaming mixed with internet radio - 'B1', which is where Zane got to - and a facebook style social network.

Frankly? meh. IMO Music doesn't lend itself to curation the way some other things do.


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I think a lot of the audience, who got all excited about Swift being open source and some of the other things they could do with iOS were wondering WTF Apple Music had to do with WWDC, and when they could use the toilets. Oddly for Apple, they had a couple of people on stage who seemed to be having problems stringing sentences together.

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So, the next Watch OS has a new face that shows a different image every time you lift your wrist - his words, not mine. I can see a genuine use for that! ;-)

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I missed the beginning with the OS X news, seriously, El Capitan? Oh well, what's in a name, even if it is the most ridiculous one?! Need to watch the start to see this section as this is what interests me most.

Some nice stuff in the iOS 9 update, undecided about Apple Music, don't think I would ever pay for a subscription service but I'm sure there's plenty that will, so fair play.

Not remotely interested in the Watch, I'd have to get the iPhone first!

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The music service seems cool. $9.99 a month and free for the first three months. Six users can share a single account for $14.99 a month.

That's the same (single) and much much better (shared) than Spotify.

If the service is good and variety decent I'll be switching.


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Not remotely interested in the Watch, I'd have to get the iPhone first!


A student at work has bought one.
My boss and I were discussing it after having a play with it. We both agreed that it was one of those things - the first blush of wearables will figure out what they're good for but we're not sold just yet. We're V2.0 kind of people, we agreed.
Then he came into work the next day and showed me his order for one at coffee break. :lol:

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ProfessorF wrote:
A student at work has bought one.

Blimey, aren't the supposed to be skint! Let me guess, it was an MBA student...

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My boss and I were discussing it after having a play with it. We both agreed that it was one of those things - the first blush of wearables will figure out what they're good for but we're not sold just yet. We're V2.0 kind of people, we agreed.
Then he came into work the next day and showed me his order for one at coffee break. :lol:

I'm generally an early adopter of tech but I'm not sold on the watch yet. Less than 24 battery life is a bit of a killer. I have a fitness band that I use to monitor my sleeping patterns among other things and you can't monitor your sleeping patterns with something that's sat on a charging stand. if it could last 24 hours-ish and charge in say an hour (so it could charge up while I'm getting ready in the morning, having breakfast etc.) then I'd probably get one. But as it stands, with an 18 hour battery life and 2.5 hours to charge from empty to full, I just can't make it fit my routine.

They didn't say watchOS 2.0 gets you any more battery life and with native apps working the CPU harder I'd expect 'use time per charge' to go down if anything...

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So, the next Watch OS has a new face that shows a different image every time you lift your wrist - his words, not mine. I can see a genuine use for that! ;-)

hehehe. Maybe it could show you something that had changed since the last time you looked at it?


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ProfessorF wrote:
A student at work has bought one.

Blimey, aren't the supposed to be skint! Let me guess, it was an MBA student...


A MacBook Air student?

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ProfessorF wrote:
A student at work has bought one.

Blimey, aren't the supposed to be skint! Let me guess, it was an MBA student...


She has had a recent change in personal circumstances that means she now more or less owns a farm...

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