WWDC 2019: Apple unveils Mac Pro computer, iOS13 and iPadOS, as death of iTunes announced
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Your support makes all the difference.Apple has unveiled updates for iPhone, Apple Watch and a host of other products – as well as its most powerful computer ever: the Mac Pro.
The company made the announcements at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, in California on Monday.
It revealed all the major software updates that it will push out to the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV later this year.
Unlike other events such as the iPhone reveal, none of these new updates will require paying up for new products. Instead, they will come in the form of operating system updates, which will bring a whole host of new features to most existing iPhones.
Apple unveiled iOS 13, for instance, the new software that will power the iPhone. It brings with it a new dark mode, better multitasking features, and changes to the way the phones store health data.
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After a brief recap of all the products they've already announced, like Apple's credit card, we're back to a video montage - this time for the new show for Apple TV, For All Mankind.
Tim Cook is back to tell us about TV OS. Multi-user support gets a big cheer, as does Xbox One S and Playstation controller support.
"I think we've got a few Xbox fans out there," he says.
Microsoft will enjoy that endorsement of its console.
It's time now to talk about Apple Watch, with Kevin Lynch taking to the stage.
Kevin Lynch has an Apple Watch on his wrist and jokes up his sleeve. After playing some audio of a bird tweeting, he says, "that was a bird captured in Apple Pa- sorry, recorded in Apple Park... no birds were harmed in the recording."
The Apple Watch software is getting a complete overhaul and a whole host of new watch faces, including California Dial and a Solar dace that comes with a 24-hour sun path.
It didn't take long to get onto privacy. Dr Sumbul Desai comes on stage to talk about health features but begins by reassuring Apple Watch users that their data is safe.
Speaking of privacy, our technology editor Andrew Griffin recently travelled to California to see inside Apple's top secret test labs - ground zero of the tech giant's efforts to ensure user privacy.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is back onstage to introduce iOS 13. Before the details of the new mobile operating system are revealed, Cook takes a moment to make a dig at its rivals.
Last year's iOS 12 saw 85 per cent of Apple users install the version. Android 9, which was released before iOS 12, was only installed by 10 per cent of Android users.
It's not really a fair comparison, given the amount of Android users out there, but it gets a cheer nonetheless.
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