Apple WWDC as it happened: Tech giant updates every product it makes and releases new HomePod Siri speaker
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Your support makes all the difference.Apple just updated every single one of its products. And released some new ones as well.
The company is holding its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, and kicked it off with its most wide-ranging event of the year.
As well as updating the software for all of its products, as it always does, the company showed off. That included updates to the iPad and Mac line – but most of all was the Siri speaker, a talking music system for the home.
Find full coverage on each of those releases – iOS 11, the new macOS, a new Siri and the HomePod speaker – below.
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And it's a new iPad Pro! It looks a lot like the old one, but the bezel that runs around its sides have been shrunk in.
It's got a bigger screen – 10.5-inch rather than 9.7-inch – but it doesn't take up more space because the bezels have been shrunk in.
There's lots of changes to how the screen works. It's got a much faster refresh rate – which looks a lot better than the current one. We can't see that though, because normal screens can't recreate it...
These are the fastest iPads ever created. (Well of course.) But they're very fast – and the old iPad Pros were hardly slow.
(This is number five of Tim Cook's six things he had to show off, by the way. We've got all the rumours out of the way apart from the Siri speaker. No prizes for guessing what number six might be.)
Despite all the new stuff, the iPad battery life is just the same: 10 hours.
And it's got the same cameras as in the iPhone 7. (Nothing for augmented reality, though that's what this feels like it's made for, with its incredibly screen.)
The front facing as well as rear facing cameras are borrowed from the iPhone 7.
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