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Apple WWDC as it happened: Tech giant updates every product it makes and releases new HomePod Siri speaker

Andrew Griffin
Monday 05 June 2017 05:02 EDT
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Apple CEO Tim Cook walks off stage after speaking during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West centre
Apple CEO Tim Cook walks off stage after speaking during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West centre (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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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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The App Store is going to be "completely redesigned". And it does look very beautiful. (That's not something you can say about the current one...)

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:25

It looks a lot more like the Apple Music app: you get things like "today" with recommendations for new apps, and special pages for games and other things.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:26

We're seeing a lengthy – very lengthy – display of the new App Store. It looks pretty good.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:29

iOS 11 will be getting the technologies like Metal 2 that are coming to the Mac.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:31

Apple is giving developers an easy way to integrate machine learning into their own apps. That's another important step to catch up with Google, which has offered such tools for a while and has pulled away from Apple on that point.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:33
Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:34

AR works by allowing the phone to work out where surfaces are. Things can then be added onto that surface, for instance – it's a little like the display to catch Pokemon in Pokemon Go, for instance.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:35

We're getting a look at all of the stuff for augmented reality: objects that stay in exactly the right place on a table, for instance.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:38

Now we're onto the iPad.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:42

And the iPad Pro specifically.

Andrew Griffin5 June 2017 19:42

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