I had the idea to do my yearly write up of all the things I saw watching the WWDC keynote.. instead this year, I thought it would be cool to just post my raw notes.. see how I am thinking while watching the keynote.. Let me know what you think:
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WWDC 2017 – Keynote Notes
Cool shot of the mixer showing all the speakers to come
Why do all camera guys look the same, black pants, t-shirt, frumpy hair?
Silent mode announcement at 1:03pm
Crowds are all waving at what appears to be drone video flying around the inside of the auditorium.
Ok 1:05pm starting to play music with lyrics must be the key for everyone to sit down
Start time 1:08PM
Funny video on unplugging the App Store…
16M registered developers, 5300 in the room
Platforms tvOS, WatchOS, macOS, iOS
No updates – too much to talk about, other than apple is doing great
6 announcements –
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- tvOS – 50 partners, Amazon is coming to Apple TV
- watchOS – Kevin Lynch –
- Watch faces –
- Siri powered watch face, what you need by dynamic time of day. (Including 3rd party apps)
- Kalido scope face
- Toy story faces
- Activities
- More personalized smarter coaching and monthly challenges
- Workout app – new UI, Pool swim will auto sense the sets that you are doing, and pace and stroke type. High intensity interval training too. Multiple workouts in a row to add multiple things, like swim, bike, etc. In door at the gym enabling two way data exchange with GYM equipment using NFC connection.
- Music
- Redesigning music app – auto sync to the watch – new music and mixes, so that you can listen.
- Demo
- Vertical scroll thru the dock
- New news app on Apple Watch.
- Play list auto starts with workout, swipe left to control music.
- Flashlight and safety light in control center
- Apps running the background increased… and native core bluetooth on the watch. (Dexcom sensor for real time glucose monitoring, swim monitors, etc.). Upgrade across ALL watches in the fall.
- Watch faces –
- macOS – the heart and sole of Apple. High Sierra
- 1. Safari update – faster
- 1. Autoplay blocking!!!! YEAH!!
- 2. Faster Java
- Privacy – Intelligent tracking prevention… identify trackers, segregate cross site scripting ads
- Mail –
- Search improvements using spotlight to do top hits
- Split view in full screen to do mail compose
- 35% less disk space usage
- Photos
- All imports in chronological order
- Face improvements and synced across your devices
- Editing enhancements: curves, selective color, punch out to other tool sync back to your photo library like Pixelmater or photoshop
- Printed books added to third parities are now opened up
- File system updates: (HFS is 30 years old)
- APFS is coming to macOS as new default.
- Video: h264 current standard
- 1. New standards h265 40% better compression
- Metal 2. Another 10x improvements
- Using metal 2 for machine learning
- Metal for external graphics – so you can add an external graphics card from your Mac
- Pro content creation
- Metal for VR to high-sierra
- Final cut will allow you to edit spherical video
- Multiple VR platforms to Mac
- all systems that are 2010 and newer
- 1. Safari update – faster
- Hardware MAC
- New iMacs
- Upto 64 GB storage
- Fusion on all 27inch
- 2TB SSD on 27 inch
- 2 USB-C adapter
- Graphics –
- Adding discrete graphics on all 4k graphics
- Using Raedon with 3X performance
- ILM demo of new iMac. Showed Unreal editor in VR, WOW…
- 90 frames per second rendering on an iMac
- Starting at $1799 for 5k 27inch
- New MacBook Pro updates
- Going to Kabyt Lake
- Faster SSDs to Mabbooks
- Better graphics to MacBook Pro base
- Lowered
- End of the year target at the new upgradable MacPro (built kinda like. iMac)
- Thicker… called the iMac Pro
- CPU – 8 Core – Xeon processor
- CPU – and a 10 core Xeon processor
- Up to 18 core Xeon Processor
- Radeon Vega Graphics architecture – up to 16 GB VRAM ( 11 Teraflops single precision)
- 128GB ECC Memory
- 4TB of 3GB/secon SSD
- 4 TB3, 10GB ethernet
- Drives up to 44 Million Pixels
- Starts at $4999 (kinda pricey) available in Dec.
- New iMacs
- 5. iOS – 86% of devices are on iOS 10, vs. Android 7 – 7% adoption
- Messages –
- Redesigned app drawer
- Messages in iCloud – all conversations will be synchronized
- ApplePay
- Person to person payments – send and receive money
- Also available on Apple Watch
- Siri –
- 21 languages – available more than any assistant
- Improved the voice using deep learning
- Added translation (very cool)
- English, Chinese, French German and Italian
- Improvements to Siri Kit
- Task management
- Better predictive technologies
- Using on device learning, and some auto responses
- Learning gets synced across all your devices, readable only by you and your devices.
- Camera improvements using HVEC – less storage, better compression and replacing JPEG with HEIF (new compression)
- Low light photographs and stabilization, exposing depth api to developers.
- Photos Apps
- Better Machine learning to improve the process for Memories
- Demo
- Control center redesign
- Added 3D Touch for more features
- All fits on one screen now
- Unification of the notifications
- Long exposure option in photos… very cool
- Apple Pay accessible in messages
- Maps
- Detailed floor plans of Malls, place cards, directories, and by floor adding 100s each month
- Same for Airports
- Speed limit and lane guidance
- Bring Car Play capabilities too – called do not disturb while driving.
- Homekit
- Airplay 2 protocol.. multi-room audio in iOS
- Apple TV and third party api for audio
- Apple Music
- Added your friend’s music
- With profiles, etc.
- Developer API for music now
- App Store Updates
- 500 million weekly visitors to App Store. 180 Billion apps downloaded to date.
- Phased releases you can decided how to rollout over time
- Brand new design to App Store
- New Today view
- New Games View
- New in app purchases can be featured
- Live demo
- Metal 2 and HVEC coming to iOS
- Machine learning –
- New APIs –
- Vision API – face tracking / landmarks
- NLP – Tokenization and named entity recognition
- New APIs –
- Augmented Reality –
- AR Kit — demo.. Very very cool
- Fast and stable motion tracking / plane identification / ambient light rendering and scale identification
- Wingnut AR – demo of new app. Using unreal engine 4.
- QR support from lock screen
- Machine learning –
- Messages –
- iPad – time to talk about iPad Pro
- Currently two models 12.9 and 9.7, New iPad Pro – 10.5 inch display
- Japanese JIS keyboard
- 120 hz refresh . Dynamically adjust reset rate based on content, allows improved battery life
- 20ms latency for Apple Pencil
- A10X – 6-core CPU and 12-Core GPU, 40% faster graphics performance
- Finally iOS for iPad updates!!
- More items in the dock
- Multitasking and drag an app from the doc
- App switcher with DRAG AND DROP!!
- Keyboard flicking to get to 2ndary things
- New App – FILES….
- Get access to the file system on iPad
- Including third party storage options
- Currently two models 12.9 and 9.7, New iPad Pro – 10.5 inch display
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And then life took over and I missed the rest of the keynote.