Beyond Devices Podcast

Episode 51 – Themes from WWDC 2016

Informações:

Synopsis

This episode is entirely devoted to covering the 2016 edition of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), which we previewed last week. Rather than go through chronologically, as we often do with these episodes, or even by product/platform, we felt it might be more interesting to pick up on four big themes from this event and discuss those, incorporating a lot of the biggest announcements in the process. The four themes are: * Openness, or loosening the reins – which includes the new Siri, iMessage, and Maps extensions; making Apple's apps deletable; and the new lock-screen UI for VoIP apps * AI and deep learning and pushing back against the narrative that Apple is behind – including advances in Siri, Photos, QuickType, and the concept of differential privacy * Things that should have happened sooner – or, as Aaron named this segment, "Finally" – watchOS 3 and its new app and dock model; single sign-on and the Remote app for tvOS; the Home app for setting up and controlling HomeKit devices; Siri on t