Each year at WWDC, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company showcases what’s next for its biggest platforms — iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and more — and what developers can do to make apps and services for them.
Apple is holding a WWDC session today, where it will feature more information on the deeply integrated next-gen CarPlay it announced in 2022. Here we can catch a glimpse of how different automakers could adopt varied styles for their cars. No automaker other than Aston Martin and Porsche seems to have signed up so far.
They sure look like text messages on the iPhone! But the bigger image, green waveform for the audio message, and the “Text Message • RCS” in the text entry field caught my eye.
RCS support is coming with iOS 18.
Sure seems like a big hint from Apple marketing chief Greg Joswiak.
Tim Cook promised that AI features were on the way. At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, we’ll finally learn what Apple’s been building.
With the countdown to the WWDC 2024 keynote now sliding through its last hour, you can prepare with The Vergecast crew for all of the questions we’re expecting to have answered in just a few minutes.
We will be in place for Apple’s WWDC 2024 keynote at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. We’ll find out exactly how much AI Tim Cook & Co. can stuff into iOS 18, along with anything else new that they have to show us.
Will we see new hardware, or will all the news have something to do with AI? Greg Joswiak isn’t telling.
Before the event starts, however, Apple released student-targeted Mac ads promoting the power and long battery life of M-series MacBooks. They’re not responding to or even acknowledging the competition’s attacks (yet), but if Qualcomm’s promises hold up, then maybe that will change.
It wasn’t the biggest announcement at WWDC this year, but Apple debuting TV AirPlay in hotels is a welcome thing, and LG announced Thursday it’ll support it on LG Pro:Centric Smart Hotel TVs later this year (via MacRumors).
When you encounter one, you’ll be able to connect and start AirPlaying TikToks or whatever by scanning a QR code on the TV.
