Introducing Apple Music, Beats 1 and everything else from Apple's 2015 WWDC Keynote
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Apple held it's keynote today to kick off WWDC 2015 and showed us a lot of updates headed our way for OSX, iOS 9 and a new version of Apple's Watch OS. They also announced Apple Music and Beats 1 - the first 24/7 global radio station (which I have to say blew me away!)
Here are the main announcements for you:
OSX
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- New release called El Capitan
- Swipe gestures in Mail to Archive and Delete
- New "Pin Sites" feature in Safari and new find and mute audio feature for tabs
- Enhanced Spotlight features with more natural language
- Finally fixed fullscreen composing in Mail so you can access other messages
- New side by side feature for windows
iOS 9
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- iOS 9 announced
- Siri is a lot more intelligent and now pro-active. If you go running every morning and love listening to music, Siri will now offer up "Now Playing".
- Siri can now check your email to suggest who unknown numbers calling you might be
- Search now supports popular video sites like Youtube and Vimeo and inside Apps
- Apple Pay will now let you add your store cards and loyalty cards
- Passbook being renamed Wallet and will now store all your cards including Credit Cards and Loyalty Cards
- Notes updated with better formatting, checklists, photos and drawing. You can now add links from the share sheet as well
- Maps will now include Transit directions (in a handful of major cities to start)
- New app called "News" that will include news feeds from the worlds leading news sources
- iPad adds format bar to the keyboard - put two fingers on the keyboard and it becomes a trackpad!
- iPad finally adds proper multitasking with "Slide Over" which lets you view 2 apps on screen at once
- Introduces new "Low Power" mode which gives you an extra 3 hours
- The update will only need 1.3 Gig of space
WatchOS 2
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- Apple already releasing watchOS2 to developers
- Will introduce Native Apps
- New watch faces including a photo album face
- New "Nightstand View" to display the time at night while your watch is charging
- You will be able to reply to emails
Apple Music
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- Apple launches it's music streaming service called Apple Music
- It's a revolutionary music service with human assisted playlists
- Will include thousands of music videos
- 24/7 Global Radio Station called Beats 1 - Playing great music from New York, L.A. and London
- Connect - a single place to connect with your artists and for new artists to connect with the world
- Will be coming to Windows and Android!
- Arriving end of June
Well that's it, I can't wait till the end of June!
