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Apple Announces WWDC 2015 Takes Place June 8-12 at Moscone West

Apple TV boosted with homekit features... And a tons of homekit devices :)

I would love to have #toilet to upload my poop stats to healthkit and so ;)

More seriously why not an intruder alarm system and next year the apple car :)
 
My keynote prediction. Things in orange with a question mark I'm less sure about.

  • Apple Watch, tremendous success, 3 million sold, working to improve order times
  • iOS 8 adoption vs. Android, iOS devices sold
  • App Store number of apps, amount of money developers make
    [*]Brief mention about Swift?
    [*]Brief mention about HomeKit/HealthKit/ResearchKit? Demo?
  • Talk about Apple Watch enabled apps, numbers, show some neat examples
  • Apple Watch native apps, talk about expansion of WatchKit SDK, demo
  • Talk about iOS 9, faster and more optimized than ever
  • Focus is on quality and performance, but has a few new features
    [*]Safari tab reloading issue fixed?
  • Maps improvements, more data sources for POI, etc
  • Beats music combined with iTunes Radio, pricing info
    [*]Lockscreen glances? Not sure how different from widgets, but faster to access/swipe through like Apple Watch, perhaps also a fixed size?
  • Customizable control center buttons
  • Set default apps for things like mail, calendar, etc
  • Can hide stock apps in settings
    [*]Siri SDK?
  • Do not disturb, vibration and ring, etc based on location
    [*]Dark mode with SDK for developers to enable in their apps?
  • Split landscape keyboard for Plus
  • Split screen multitasking for iPad Air 2 and newer (2GB RAM)
  • iCloud Drive app for iOS
  • General iCloud improvements (iCloud Storage Family Sharing?), small misc features
  • New OS X (OS 11? New name?)
  • Focus on performance and stability, much like iOS
  • System-wide dark mode (so things like sidebars, window borders, etc)
  • Deeper handoff/iOS notifications from third party apps showing up on Mac
  • Few smaller misc features, perhaps things like built-in menubar organization (think Bartender), more gestures, Safari changes, stuff like that
  • Wind down/recap
    [*]One more thing…Apple TV 4th gen?
  • Apple TV App Store, SDK
  • Built-in "Hey Siri" for playing, pausing, etc
  • TV streaming channels and pricing
    [*]Two storage sizes? Maybe higher end storage tier better for demanding games (better GPU)?
    [*]Apple designed controller for playing games?

Is this list crazy or just about right? This could be a long Keynote. They might leave some things out just for brevity, and put up a screen showing some of the newer features. Things like "customize control center" could go on one of those screens. Apple is doing so much now that it might make sense to split their keynote in two, or even three. Think about dominating the news cycle that week. They could split them up by iOS, iCloud and Mac, although many of them go hand-in-hand so that could be difficult. Their keynotes have gotten longer of the years, but could they really extend it much longer?
 
oliversl said:
Random selection won't please everyone, I hope Apple adapt to the reality and find a bigger venue. Its 2015 FCOL!
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There are a limited number of Apple engineers on site, and they can only deal with so many attendees.

On the other hand, next year's WWDC should be hosted at the new Apple campus. Which should be fun.
 
Nothlit said:
I think people are reading way too much into this artwork (as usual). The rounded-squares represent iOS app icons. The circles represent Watch app icons. Nothing more to it than that. We already know that a more robust Watch SDK is coming "later this year" (which probably means WWDC).



What day?



Uh, what?



Actually the argument could be made that $1599 is too low, since demand clearly exceeds supply. They could probably charge twice as much and still sell out.
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I have the 8th off. Keynote.
 
My guess,

- iOS 9
- OSX 10.11
- new Apple TV with Appstore + TV service
- a smaller new Mac Mini
- Apple Beats Music streaming (iOS 8.4)
- New iOS homescreen (round icons, similar to Apple Watch)
- native Apps on the Watch
- Optimization both for iOS and OSX

I really hope they do something about the iOS Homescreen. With the iPhone 5 en iPhone 6 (Plus) we just got another row of icons. With iOS 7, Apple redesigned the whole operating system but didn't touch the Home screen. It needs a change.
 
sampaul said:
There is a square as one of the shapes. Looks like the new Apple TV or Mac Mini.
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HA! Exactly my thoughts.... Can it be, after all these years, we're finally gonna get some Apple TV love...? Actually that sounds a bit weird! ;)
 
Bevz said:
HA! Exactly my thoughts.... Can it be, after all these years, we're finally gonna get some Apple TV love...? Actually that sounds a bit weird! ;)
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You guys are far off. The center of the image is clearly the Watch. The Watch is the "epicenter of change" because of how it interacts with your iPhone. The circles are the Watch apps and the squares are other Watches.
 
It will be about the App store for the new Apple TV to get developers excited. iOS 9 will be a snow leopard like release so there won't be much buzz outside of Map updates, multi tasking with 2 apps on screen at once, and some other enhancements.

Bank on it!
 
The epicentre is clearly a new A chip that will allow iOS and OS X to merge :cool:

Remember what epicentre means:
"the central point of something, typically a difficult or unpleasant situation"

Difficult for people to accept iOS and OS X merging, but get used to it.

The epicentre of change, indeed. A real earthquake that will shape the future.
 
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Santabean2000 said:
[You guys are on to it.] The new TV is coming! Fiiiiiinally

An app store, HomeKit on steroids and a new 'always on' hub for the house to connect everything. The epicentre.

Watch + iPhone will be your UI. TV will be the brains to coordinate with all the 'iThings' that'll connect seamlessly with the new APIs.

TV with new partnerships will further sever your connection to traditional cable and the extra A8X muscle will pave the way for gaming to become 'console like' experience; iPhone/iPad/iPod will be your game controllers.
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Yep, I think this is what is going to happen. The ATV sits at home and everything connects through it with your always on Apple Watch being party of how you connect.
 
Should we expect significant changes in iOS? I know we'll see nothing as drastic as iOS 7 was, but iOS 8 was the 'incremental' update after iOS 7, if you like. So surely now is the time for something big?
 
That's an Apple TV in the middle and I'm guessing that it's the rumored center of the home automation hub for Apple.
 
applebreed said:
And you're right, I hadn't thought of the Time Machine interface (I haven't had any major crashes so there's been no need to use it, knock on wood) but to me, that and other examples I pointed out in another response underscore that putting things into a 3D space is something that Apple's UI team continues to explore.
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I can tell you, software reliability aside, that a brief scare with water damage to my laptop has motivated me to make regular Time Machine backups for my MacBook! :p
 
You know what I really want? Per-contact read receipt settings. My wife and I both like read receipts for each other, but don't care about other people seeing when we read their message. Especially our mothers, who often ask us long questions that take time to respond to, and then bug us when they see we've read it and haven't yet responded. This is especially true for my mother in law, who is 100% deaf and uses iMessages/Text as a her primary form of communication. For now we just sneak a peek at the message in notification center to make sure someone isn't in the hospital or whatever.
 
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