![]() ![]() On iOS for iPhone and iPad, application programming interfaces (API) will make apps themselves more accessible. It's been a long time coming, but it's a remarkable advancement for the Mac. It'll also include the ability to pin results you want to keep live to Notification Center, and even to drag-and-drop results into documents. That'll include finding specific files from dates, titles, and tags, and filtering down further as you go. ![]() With powerful natural language and sequential inference support, it'll do almost everything the iPhone version of Siri will do - Hey, Siri! aside - and several things uniquely its own. Thanks to Siri, you'll also be able to query and control your Mac with voice alone. And you'll have access to an emergency button that, with no additional hardware or service required, will be able to alert first responders as well as family and friends to your location and your urgent need.Ĭome this fall, you'll be able to unlock macOS just by coming within three meters while wearing your Apple Watch. Up to ten of your most used and favorite apps will be able to launch instantly and completing tasks will be faster and easier, with the goal now set to two seconds from beginning to end. You'll be able to write out letters or characters and they'll be recognized and converted to type. Instead of having to rely on intrinsic motivation to reach your activity goals, you'll be able to add friends for extrinsic motivation - and smack talk in text or through voice. Instead of "time to stand" watchOS will soon give you "time to roll" and new and optimized workouts if you're in a wheelchair. AccessibilityĪccessibility can come in many forms. Not the least of which will be getting us to the point where we can no longer list the "first times" a group felt included on stage. There's still a tremendous amount of work to be done, to be sure. I say "seemed" because I wasn't able to attend, but the social stream I saw didn't appreciate the non-inclusive message mixed into the music. Conversely, Good Charlotte, the musical guest at the Beer Bash on Thursday seemed to come off as a step backward. Student scholarship winners were front and center in the audience and throughout the week as well, highlighted by the youngest ever - a 9-year-old girl who showed that not even single digits need be a barrier to entry.Īs with previous years, the sessions and labs that followed had a far greater mix of diversity than the keynotes. There iOS Safari manager, Adele Peterson, showed off the new Messages app she helped spearhead, and games and graphics manager, Norman Wang, closed out the show by demonstrating Xcode gameplay tools. We also saw men and women of various other backgrounds, on stage at the Bill Graham Civic Center throughout the day, including during the second keynote, Platform State of the Union. Her presentation came in the middle of Eddy Cue's talk on services. (And yes, we measure audience connection by length of selfie lineups.) Needless to say, her post-show selfie lineup that was quite possibly the biggest in the building. Head of Global Consumer Marketing for iTunes and Beats, she showed off the bigger, bolder, redesign, got the crowd bang-bang-boogieing to the Sugar Hill Gang and then closed her section out her session with Guyanese rap. That resulted in the electrifying Bozoma Saint John taking stage to talk Apple Music. Angela Ahrendts - who, like Jony Ive, seems to be more comfortable working than presenting - made a rare appearance last month to introduce the new Union Square store.īut Apple seems to have settled on how the company will, at least in the short term, approach the greater issue of diversity and inclusivity on stage - by letting the engineers, designers, and managers who make the products demonstrate the products they make. Lisa Jackson made her first keynote appearance last March to showcase Apple's environmental initiatives. ![]()
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