Apple WWDC as it happened: Tech giant updates every product it makes and releases new HomePod Siri speaker
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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We're watching a strange, humorous video where a hapless Apple administrator accidentally takes down the App Store by unplugging one of its servers. The apocalypse has now happened because people are lost and can't use their apps. Hopefully Apple manage to make sure that the streaming and everything else works throughout this presentation.
"The world is depending on you," the message reads at the end. Which I suppose it is.
He's going through the big numbers, as he usually does. 16 million registered developers, and they added 3 million last year alone. 5300 attendees at WWDC. 75 countries. It's all very nice – but WHERE'S THE NEW STUFF?
Tim Cook says there's a lot to say so there'll be no updates! Straight into the announcements. There'll be six apparently.
Amazon is coming to the Apple TV. That's big: they've until now refused, because Apple asks them to pay up when people subscribe through them.
"You'll be hearing a lot more about tvOS later this year." So sounds like that's it for today.
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