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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iOS 11 is available to developers today. You can sign up for a beta that will open at the end of the month. And it will be available to everyone come the autumn.
Tim Cook's back onstage, and there's surely only one more product launch left to go. But first a video on the iPad Pro and iOS 11.
A lot of chat about music here: AirPods, Apple Music, etc. "But what about our homes?"
Everyone has tried to make internet speakers: some of them sound great but aren't smart (like Sonos), others are very smart but sound terrible (like the Amazon Echo).
It looks a little like a Google Home, a little like the Mac Pro wrapped in a mesh.
First feature is "rock the house" – i.e. it's loud. It does that using seven different tweeters in the bottom of it, and a huge bass woofer that sits right in the middle.
All of that is controlled by an A8 chip – the chip that powers your iPhone. It's "perhaps the biggest brain ever in a speaker".
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