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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Apple WWDC 2002-The Death Of Mac OS 9
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Probably safe to say there won't be any of these theatrics this time around, Apple being a much slicker, less cheeky organisation now. But they might pay tribute to it.
(They will, of course, reportedly be killing off 32-bit software. Perhaps that'll be the time for another mock funeral.)
The video stream is live, by the way. Now you too can listen to the music the people in the hall are listening to. (Until now that's been "provided by Beats 1" – but Apple seems to have dropped that branding.)
OK no – the music just faded down. We're still waiting. (and people are still entering the hall.)
A disembodied voice echoes across the theatre: please set your devices to silent mode. The presentation will begin "shortly", it says.
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