All the news from Apple’s 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference – The Verge

Apple video gives a close look at OS X Yosemite’s new style

2014-06-09T17:18:39-04:00

Apple unveiled a redesigned version of OS X last week, and today it's releasing a video that gives the closest look you can get at it - at least, without being a developer. The video gives a close up view of the new icons, font, and buttons, and traces across pretty much everything big that's changing in OS X Yosemite. The video was actually run during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference to introduce the new design, but it was only uploaded to YouTube as a separate video today. It's a quick one minute, and you can watch above if you're interested in seeing what the Mac will look like beginning this fall.

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Meet the new Apple

2014-06-03T12:39:53-04:00

While I watched Apple's WWDC 2014 opening keynote on Monday morning, I couldn't stop thinking about the infectious mixture of fun and confidence everyone onstage seemed to be exuding. It was something new for this era of Apple, and it felt like a mirror image of the announcements being made. The message was loud and resonant from where I sat: We're back, we're ready to play, and we know who we are.

Watching CEO Tim Cook and his "Superman" companion Craig Federighi bound about onstage, trading jokes and launching into strangely lengthy and effective bits on topics like a near-miss naming of OS X "Weed," you might not recognize the company if …

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Introducing the new Apple, live from WWDC 2014

2014-06-02T20:24:37-04:00

It began with developers stampeding to their seats and ended with the announcement of a new programming language. It was WWDC 2014, and Apple had a lot to talk about. Tim Cook and Craig Federighi took turns announcing new versions of iOS and OS X, with new features and designs on both sides. But they spent most of their time talking about how Apple devices talk to each other, how apps can work together, and how Apple is taking a new, friendlier, more inviting approach to the way it designs software. That may turn out to be much more important than a new Mac Mini ever could have been.

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Watch this: Apple’s two-hour WWDC keynote in 10 minutes

2014-06-02T19:17:55-04:00

Apple spent two hours today talking about new software it plans to release this fall. That includes iOS 8 and a newly-revamped version of OS X called Yosemite. The whole keynote took a little under two hours, or you can just watch the best, most important parts in our 10-minute edit above. There's also a full rundown of the most important announcements from today right here.

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The Swift effect: Apple’s new programming language means way more iPhone developers and apps

2014-06-02T18:50:06-04:00

The biggest reaction from the crowd at WWDC today wasn't for a shiny new product or even a cool new app. Instead, the news that Apple was introducing its own programming language, Swift, got a full-throated roar of appreciation from the thousands of developers in attendance.

Even without knowing a thing about programming, it's easy to understand this is a big deal: Apple's current language of choice, Objective-C, has been in the mix for Macs since the launch of OS X, and for iPhones and iPads from day one. For Apple to throw out the developer playbook across its entire product portfolio suggests there's a big change afoot - and many devs ar …

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Apple is fighting a messaging war it cannot win

2014-06-02T18:36:48-04:00

"Messages is the most frequently used app on iOS," Apple said today - and with today's announcements at WWDC, it sounds like Apple intends to keep it that way. Apple gave Messages its biggest upgrade ever, lifting many of the most important features from competing apps like WhatsApp, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, and others.

Like WhatsApp, Messages now lets you send a quick voice message instead of typing out a text. Like Snapchat, videos sent in Messages disappear unless you tap "Keep" to save them. Like Facebook Messenger, Messages lets you quickly add friends to a group message, and remove them just as easily. And the features keep comin …

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Apple changes OS X system font for the first time in Yosemite

2014-06-02T18:17:19-04:00

Apple's making a lot of design tweaks for OS X Yosemite - its desktop operating system's next big release - and one of the biggest is the system font, which it'll change for the first time since OS X was released. Yosemite changes the font from Lucida Grande to something from the famous Helvetica Neue family, which lends to the thin and clean design style that Apple's been favoring lately. When Yosemite is released next fall, you'll start seeing it pretty much everywhere across the OS, from the menu bar to app windows.

Helvetica Neue also debuted as the iPhone and iPad's system font in iOS 7 last year. With Apple placing a big focus on con …

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8 huge new features in iOS 8 that Apple didn’t talk about today

2014-06-02T17:37:13-04:00

Apple announced iOS 8 with great fanfare today, revealing many new features and a number of significant changes to the platform. Things like HealthKit, new extensibility options, and HomeKit got a lot of attention during Apple's presentation - but as is often the case in Apple's big keynotes, there were a number of new features that didn't even get a mention. Here are eight of the most interesting.

Wi-Fi calling

Apple has supported making FaceTime audio and video calls over Wi-Fi networks for some time now, but it looks like iOS 8 will bring the ability to make standard calls over Wi-Fi as well. Carriers such as T-Mobile have offered this se …

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Developers already at work on alternate iOS 8 keyboards

2014-06-02T17:10:28-04:00

Developers have been asking Apple to open up iOS to other keyboards for years, and today the company obliged. As part of iOS 8, which will be released in the fall, users can swap out Apple's keyboard with ones made by other companies. Users have been long able to do that on Google's Android, but it's been far more difficult on iOS, requiring either a jailbreak or individual developers to supply their own specialty keyboard features.

Following Apple's annual developers keynote earlier today, a number of prominent third-party software keyboard makers now say they're already at work on those keyboards, and plan to let people try them out ahead …

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Watch Apple’s video ode to developers from WWDC 2014

2014-06-02T16:56:18-04:00

As has been the custom for every Apple event in recent years, the company began today's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC 2014) in San Francisco with an emotive video. Entitled "Apps We Can't Live Without," the short spot features a wide variety of professionals describing their favorite apps, thanking the software developers who made them, and describing some joking unflattering developer stereotypes. It even includes testimonial of a young man who uses an iOS app to control his bionic prosthetic arm. Watch it for yourself below:

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