4hw.org: in the early morning of Beijing time today, apple held its annual world wide Developers Conference (WWDC). As the most important software conference of apple, the software of this conference is naturally the focus of the conference. In addition to the high-profile ios11, what other products have Apple released? Let's have a look!
TvOS
At the beginning of the conference, cook first stepped on the stage and pointed out that the conference will bring six content updates.
First of all, tvos has more than 50 partners. Amazon will officially join the tvos camp later this year.
WatchOS 4
The second part of the conference is apple watch. Apple has released the latest watchos 4 system, adding Siri dial (automatically and intelligently recommend according to user's activities, and arrange movie tickets, weather, news and other information in the form of timeline), kaleidoscope dial and toy mobilization dial.
For fitness users, watch OS 4 can synchronize data through fitness equipment with NFC function, the newly designed UI is more convenient for users to start training quickly, music provides more accurate and rich music recommendation and push, and presents with a newly designed UI interface, which is more compatible with airpods.
The official version of watchos 4 will come this autumn. Today, the developer beta is available for download.
Mac
The third content of the conference is about Mac. First, Apple released a new generation of Mac OS system, Mac OS High Sierra.
Specifically, on MacOS High Sierra, Safari's browsing speed is 80% faster than chrome's. The New autoplay shielding function is simply to automatically identify web pages with video or playing sound. Secondly, it is an advertising tracking function based on intelligent tracking and shielding technology.
In terms of file management system, apple file system officially logs in to Mac OS, which can realize the file movement function with higher speed and stability.
In other aspects, MacOS High Sierra optimizes window layout and quick query functions. With the upgrade of the library editing function, the support for HTC vive is also increased.
The product also ushered in the update, introduced iMac, macbook and MacBook Pro with improved hardware configuration, and lowered the price of B, as shown in the figure.
Surprisingly, Apple launched a new IMAC product, named IMAC pro. In terms of configuration, IMAC Pro uses dual fan cooling scheme, Vega Series graphics card, up to 128GB of ECC memory, 4tb SSD solid-state drive, and 8-core, 10-core and 18 core processors for users to choose from, starting from $4999.
IOS
Next is the new IOS 11. First of all, in the new IOS 11, users can use Apple pay to realize personal transfer through IMessage (wechat smiles)
In addition, in IOS 11, Siri supports translation in more languages, and Siri's voice is more anthropomorphic.
In IOS 11, it brings a more powerful control center, which almost takes up the whole page area. The advantage is that when you adjust the volume, you don't need to slide left and right, it can be solved in one screen, and more functions can be realized with 3D touch.
In the aspect of image library, the live photo editing function has been added, including dynamic editing such as loop.
In the application of map, IOS 11 added indoor map, and launched the non-interference driving mode for the car owners, which automatically turns off the notification and reminder when users drive.
In homekit, support for speakers has been added. Through the new air play 2 protocol, multiple speaker devices can be controlled.
Apple music has social features that let you see what your friends are listening to.
In IOS 11, the app store has been redesigned. In the new app store, the audit speed of the app has been greatly improved, and the audit is completed within 24 hours, or even some app audits only take 2 hours. The design style of the new app store is somewhat similar to the previous Apple music.
Finally, Apple also brought us an ar software, arkit, which works well from the live demonstration.
At the end of this part, Apple also mentioned special functions for Chinese users, such as integrated camera scanning QR code function, anti spam SMS, taking mobile phone number as Apple ID, etc
IPad
In the fifth part of the conference, Apple launched a new iPad pro. As we predicted last night, the iPad Pro uses a 10.5 inch screen, but the fuselage size is basically the same as that of the 9.7 inch version of iPad.
In terms of refresh rate, the new iPad Pro adopts a screen refresh rate of 120Hz. With IOS 11, it can play HDR video. With a screen refresh rate of 120Hz, apple pencil can achieve a minimum delay of 20ms, and adjust the refresh rate dynamically according to different display contents.
In terms of configuration, the new iPad Pro launched the a10x six core SOC. The GPU has reached 12 cores, with a 30% increase in speed and a 40% increase in display efficiency. It supports wide color gamut, HDR shooting, 600 nit brightness and tunetone display.
For the camera, it is equipped with the same camera sensor as the iPhone 7; it has a 10 hour battery life; the initial capacity changes to 64GB, and the maximum optional storage space is 512gb. It costs $649 for 10.5 inches and $799 for 12.9 inches.
IOS 11 redesigns the dock bar on the iPad, which can be called up in any program, making the split screen operation more convenient.
The files exposed yesterday also officially appeared, allowing users to access the files in the device more quickly. At the same time, files supports cloud services, and Baidu cloud and Tencent cloud in China can use them.
HomePod
In the final part of the conference, Apple's smart speaker, a product called homepod, was officially unveiled.
Homepod has gray and white color options. It has 7 built-in units and a subwoofer. It is equipped with A8 chip. It can adjust the playing mode according to the room size, so that the music can fill the whole room.
Homepod also has six microphones facing different directions. In addition to music, you can ask questions about news, weather, blog, translation, etc.
In terms of selling price, homepod, which costs 349 US dollars, will be officially launched in the United States, Britain and Australia in December (without China in the initial launch).
So far, this year's WWDC Developer Conference of Apple has come to an end. It can be said that most of the previous predictions have come true. Which part are you most satisfied with today's WWDC conference?