WWDC 17 summary

The 2017 Apple Developers Conference (WWDC 17), which is considered one of the longest Apple conferences in its history, has ended, as it lasted for more than two and a quarter hours, in which Apple revealed the update of all its systems and launched new versions of the iMac and MacBook Pro devices and a completely new device named I-Mac Pro and announced the update of the iPad in two Pro versions, and announced a new product, too. Follow us to find out what it is.

This is a quick summary of the conference.

The conference began as usual with a video, but this time it was comic, where he talked about what the world looks like without applications.

She called on developers to not stop making good apps, because the world needs them.

You can watch the video

Tim Cook then stepped onto the stage and quickly mentioned several numbers:

● There are 16 million developers registered with Apple.
● There were 3 million new developers last year.
● The conference will be attended by 5300 people from 75 countries from all continents of the world.
● The youngest developer to attend is 10 years old, and the oldest is 82 years old.

Then he announced that there will be 6 major announcements at the conference today, which are as follows:

The first advertisement is to update the TV system

It is the least focused advertisement at the conference as Tim only said that they have 50 major partners to showcase programs on Apple TV

It will now join a new partner, the largest in the world. It is Amazon and the Prime Video service at the end of this year:

That was it, but Tim hinted that there is more we will know at the end of the year in a sign that perhaps he means that there will be a new TV at the end of the year and special updates will be announced with it.

The second advertisement clock system

Apple bragged about the watch and stated that it is the first in the world in the customer satisfaction index, as well as the highest-selling smart watch in the world.

Then we started talking about watchOS 4.0, which comes with several advantages such as:

The Siri interface is an interface that displays information such as road conditions, weather, suggested articles, sports, messages, appointments, and more.

The Kaleidoscope interface is a fun, colorful interface.
An interface featuring the characters from the famous Toy Story movie.

Important updates to the Tasks Activity app.

Numerous updates to the smart recognition of the Workout Sports app.

The gym feature, with which you can synchronize your activity with the device in the gym, "the gym" by means of NFC in the devices.

A new music app that includes a feature to sync what you want to hear.

The new Apple Watch system update will be available this fall.

The third advertisement is Mac family

Apple announced the latest Mac system, which comes under the name "High Sierra" as an alternative to the current "Sierra".

She explained that "Hay" is not only a symbol of the upper part of the mountain, but also because it is a "advanced" version of the traditional Sierra and includes a large number of improvements as follows:

In the Safari application, Apple added a feature to prevent automatic playback of ad videos, and major improvements in JavaScript file playback made it 80% faster than Google Chrome. And the addition of smart tracking feature to maintain privacy.

In the Mail app, the search has been made to identify the most important articles. And the addition of the split-screen feature between the application and the screen to compose a new message.

In the Photos application, the ability to arrange photos has been added based on several options, such as Tags or the latest. Photo editing has been greatly updated to make it more like a simplified version of Photoshop for the average user and you can change the time and even the background. Other companies are also allowed to use the print feature.

The new APFS system files were talked in detail and how it will make the system significantly faster, especially in copying and duplicating files, as well as more secure, less crashing and stronger encryption.

High quality H.265 video codec has been added and it supports of course 4K and better 40% than the previous version H.264, especially in file compression, which means that you will see better quality with less space.

Metal 2, Apple's graphics platform, was announced and said to be 10 times faster than the first generation.

An easy-to-use ML library has been released for developers in the field of Machine Learning.

An AMD RX 580 graphics external device has been announced with three ThunderBolt 3 ports as well as USB C ports.

Apple devices have "finally" revealed support for VR in the upcoming platform, and Steam VR SDK has been announced for developers.

The Mac High Sierra update will be officially released to everyone this fall.

The surprise

Apple not only updated the system, but also announced the update of the devices as follows:

The iMac family with 21.5-inch and 27-inch versions got better screens, supporting 43 billion colors and XNUMX% stronger lighting

In addition to the seventh generation of Intel processors, significant improvements in hard disk speed, doubling of memory, and major graphics improvements, such as starting with Intel irs 640 and up with the provision of Radon 555 graphics cards for the 21.5-inch version and up to Radon 580 in the higher 27-inch version with a 5K screen.

Prices for the devices will start at $ 1099 for the traditional 21.5 size, $ 1299 for the Retina version, and $ 1799 for the 27-inch version.

Apple has talked about a premium version that is geared for professionals called the iMac Pro.

It will be released by the end of the year and it comes with the same 5-inch 27K screen, an eight-core Xeon processor and up to 18 cores, a Radon Vega graphics card with a power of 11 teraflops, the ability to increase memory up to 128 GB, and a storage capacity of up to 4 terabytes SSD at speeds up to 3 GB and includes a 1080 camera.

It will start at $4999 and be available at the end of the year in December.

On the side, Apple mentioned that it was also updated MacBook Pro devices without much details of the update.

Fourth announcement iOS system

The expected point in the conference was talked about after a full hour and of course the talk began with the usual mockery of Google that 86% of Apple users have the latest iOS 10 system, while the percentage of Nougat users is only 7%.

The new system iOS 11

It comes with a key point, which is improvements, as Apple has been interested in improving the current features, the system and the design in general, in the following points:

The iMessage application has received an update and the messages are saved in the cloud, so they will go to any device they have as soon as you log in to it.

The design of Drawer i.e. the way you choose and move between built-in apps has also been improved.

Apple Pay payment system by the end of this year will be accepted in 50% of stores in America.

So Apple announced updates to include sending money between its users, just as in PayPal, but this time in an easier way, it is enough for someone to send you in iMessage that he wants you $ 28, for example, to send it to him directly, and of course it is secured by your fingerprint.

Siri also got an update to expand its artificial intelligence such as adding automatic translation “beta version and supports only Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish from English.”

That is, you will be able to ask Siri what the word “x” means in “x” language, to translate it for you.

It also got an update to know your device usage and predict what you want to write or do.

For example, if you are reading an article about China, if you open the news application, it will show you news about China. Also, Siri now supports multiple results at the same time.

Apple also announced more support for Siri for developers, and now you can integrate Siri even more with apps.

Apple says the camera is used more than a trillion times so it's time to improve the quality of what you capture.

By supporting HEVC videos that provide compression in half while maintaining the quality, and the same thing in videos where JPG has been replaced by HFIF, which also provides twice the compression, reducing the size of images in half.

Live images also got an important update to improve the quality and the ability to modify the interface image

The control center was finally updated and redesigned to become as follows:

The new design includes the same features as the previous ones, but if your device has a XNUMXD touch feature, you will get additional options, for example, controlling Bluetooth and Wi-Fi by clicking on them, and more options will appear, such as hotspot, for example.

The Maps application, in turn, received an update to add internal information about "malls" as well as airports.

You can easily know where there is such a store on any floor. The list of supported countries is not many, but we noticed the presence of Doha and Dubai airports on the list, which is a good thing that Apple is interested in the first batch of Arab airports.

A feature has been added that supports Do Not Disturb in the car, which is a feature that Apple recognizes that you are in a car so that you do not see notifications on your device so that you are safe.

And of course you can turn it off if you are not driving. The great thing is that Apple has added an emergency feature, for example, if someone sends you a message, Siri will automatically reply that you are driving and have activated the Do Not Disturb service.

But if there is an important matter, you can send a specific response and here the phone will show you the notifications.

It is strange for my phone to talk to my friends without me, but it is nice that it will tell me if there is an important point :)

The home system is also improved by the announcement of AirPlay 2, which supports multiple speakers, meaning you have more than one speaker in the rooms and you can specify a specific sound for each of them.

(The headphones will be added in the update because they are not currently supported.) Also, Apple TV can play files in every household.

The Apple Music app has got an update that lets you see what your friends have been listening to, show graphs, search catalogs and lists, and many more. And now it can access all Apple Music services from various applications such as Nike +

Software Store:

A key point, so we'll talk about it in detail. Apple Marketing Director Phil Schiller stepped up to the stage and talked that there are more than 500 million weekly visitors to the App Store and that so far 180 billion non-recurring apps have been downloaded, meaning that this number does not include re-downloads or updates. And they have paid out more than $ 70 billion so far to developers (that's $ 100 billion in total sales).

So they decided to redesign the App Store and provide many new features:

There will be articles about applications within the software store itself in the tab today, which will show you the latest applications, add-ons and purchases from within the applications that you have, as well as articles as we mentioned.

There will be a games tab for easy access at any time, and it will contain details and sections for internal games, and there will also be a similar tab for applications.

It appeared in the background of the screen that there is Free Trials, so does this mean that Apple will provide trial versions of the paid applications?!

On the margin, he mentioned that artificial intelligence has been improved in the system, or as it is called “machine learning,” and its applications are that the images application can recognize image details, know the face, lines, texts, barcodes and various objects and make suggestions based on them “So you can modify a specific color or delete part of it. Image".

AR or augmented reality, as Apple decided to support it in hundreds of millions of devices as of iOS 11.

This will make games like Pokemon faster and smoother, but it will also enable you to create your own world. For example, you can open the camera on the table so that the device recognizes the "previous artificial intelligence" that it is a table.

Thus it is suggested that you add things like a coffee mug or a light. The wonderful thing is that if you add lighting, for example, and move it, it will interact with things, which is similar to MR.

Fifth advertisement for the iPad

One of the things I liked the most at the conference was "perhaps the only one", as Apple recently announced a newer version of the iPad Pro

I mentioned that the current 9.7-inch version will be completely canceled as rumors and that there will be a new design in which the edges are reduced by 40%, making the screen display area increase 20% and become 10.5 inches (the size difference is 8%, but the supply increases 20%). And Apple explained that the weight of the device has not increased significantly, "the difference is only 32 grams."

The new size means that the virtual as well as the physical keyboard appears in full size and it supports 30 languages ​​"External Keyboard".

As for the screen, it has been updated, increasing the brightness to 600nits and reducing light reflection to become clearer in different lighting, as well as supporting HDR video playback.

A new feature has been added which is the intelligent screen refresh control called ProMotion. Currently, the screen is refreshed at 60Hz, but the new devices come with a double speed of 120Hz, and this means a great smoothness.

The funny thing is that at the conference they made it clear that this feature cannot be displayed on the screen because the projector used in the conference does not support this smoothness.

Apple explained that the system automatically determines the update speed, which decreases in the case of viewing static images and increases in the case of fast browsing and games, for example.

The response speed of the Apple Pencil has also been improved to 20ms by this feature, so the user feels close to being a real pen.

The new iPad comes with an A10x processor, which includes 6 cores (3 for performance and 3 for efficiency) and 12 graphics cores. This makes it 30% faster as a processor and 40% better in games and graphics.

The iPad includes a battery with a capacity of 10 hours of use and comes with a 12-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization, a hexagonal lens with an f/1.8 aperture, 4K video shooting, a “True Tone” quad flash, a 7-megapixel front camera, a Retina flash feature, and an automatic “non-optical” image stabilization.

The new device comes with the same traditional cable, but with support for USB 3.0 file transfer speed in the case of using the reader, as well as providing fast charging with a C To Lightning cable and a special C charger.

iPad starts with a storage capacity of 64 GB at a price of $ 649 for the 10.5-inch version and $ 799 for the 12.9-inch version of Wi-Fi and is available with a capacity of 256 GB, as well as 512 GB, which is priced at $ 1229 for the iPad 12.9-inch networking version.

The iPad is available now in the Apple Store online for ordering and shipping next week.

The surprise

The new iPad will have exclusive features in iOS 11.

Craig Federji once again took to the stage and spoke quickly about the iPad-exclusive iOS 11 features.

Like the "Applications" bottom bar, which has become like a Mac, you can increase the number of applications you add in it, and you can at any time display it and pull applications from it to run them.

A whole new look for switching between apps.

An advanced keyboard that you can easily navigate between numbers and symbols by swiping on them.

A special application Files that enables you to access your files stored anywhere and any cloud service such as Dropbox, for example.

Drag and drop feature, so you can drag any image, text, link or file from any application and drop it in another application such as mail, for example.

And also feature document imaging with the ability to create PDF files for texts modified by Markup.

Special features of the Apple Pencil with the Notes application, where you can now draw directly in it. Recognize handwriting and graphics, and provide a note scanner.

The sixth advertisement is HomePod

Tim Cook talked about Apple's adoption of music, so in order to develop in this area, he called Phil Schiller to talk about the new Apple device.

Phil Schiller said how “songs and music” is important to many, so Apple wanted to improve this area in the home, so I saw what was available in the market and found that it did not achieve the three goals, which are the power of sound, site recognition and musical culture, so it announced a new device called the HomePod

The new device without the huge frills said is a powerful Siri-powered headset that has Apple Music built into it.

Initially, the device is 7 inches long, or approximately 18 cm, and includes 7 speakers distributed in a circular motion to provide powerful surround sound.

And to provide high performance, the HomePod is powered by an A8 processor, which is the same processor found in the iPhone 6. The device also includes an Apple-designed subwoofer to provide superior bass.

With Siri, you can play different songs and sounds, and the device includes a very sensitive microphone, just say Siri, and the device will work.

Apple explained that the microphone picks up sounds permanently, but it does not deliver what it hears to Apple servers, but the sound is processed and analyzed locally in the device by the powerful processor, and when it picks up the call, “Siri” here connects to the servers waiting for commands to be executed. Apple made it clear that any data it sends is encrypted for privacy.

And because it includes Siri, you can use it as a personal assistant to ask about news, transfer units, messages, appointments, match results, weather, translation, stock exchange, and anything Siri asks for.

Its price is $ 349, and it will be available at the end of this year in December, and will be available for sale in America, England, and Australia, and next year it will be available all over the world.

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