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WWDC 2018: Start time, live blog, how to livestream, what to expect

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: WWDC 2018: Best new iOS 12 features and more 5:43 As WWDC 2018 approached, Apple released the last version of iOS 11 recently, 11.4, with important updates such as Messages in iCloud and AirPlay 2 for multiroom, stereo audio with HomePods. We speculated as …

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Apple brings iOS apps into Mac, but won’t merge platforms

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Macs will be able to run some apps written for iPhones and iPads on the next-generation MacOS Mojave software, a big new step in bringing the two technology platforms closer together. Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, announced the change …

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Apple TV can replace your Charter Spectrum cable box later this year

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The Apple TV streaming-television device can replace the clunky cable box for Charter Spectrum cable subscribers later this year, Apple said Monday at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose. WWDC is the event at which Apple details the newest software that will hit its devices …

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Mojave is the new macOS

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. If you’re wondering which California geographical feature the latest Mac operating system is named after, the answer is MacOS Mojave. This ends “a four-year mountain bender,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, at the Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday …

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Apple’s WWDC 2018: Forget the gadgets, it’s all about services and software

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s next pitch is to get you to put your iPhone down. Wait, what? The effort, a response to experts’ and investors’ growing fears about smartphone addiction, is likely to be one of the key themes at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on June …

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WatchOS 5 adds Walkie

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Going into Apple’s WWDC 2018 keynote, rumor had it that with the arrival of WatchOS 5 Apple would finally allow third-party developers to create and sell watch faces for the Apple Watch. That didn’t happen, but Apple did announce enhancements to the Activity …

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Apple definitively confirms iOS and MacOS will not merge

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: MacOS and iOS are definitely not getting together, or… 1:12 Apparently, Apple’s been asked this question a lot: “Are you merging iOS and MacOS?” At the company’s WWDC, Senior VP Craig Federighi wanted to tackle it head-on, saying, “I’d …

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