We’re not as gung-ho on the basic wrist device as we have been, or on wearables in general, according to IDC’s latest report on wearables. But smarter devices are making a bigger stand in the market. The report, published Monday, is based on first-quarter year-over-year unit shipment growth — that’s the number of wearable devices …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple shows new Measure AR app 1:22 Augmented reality was one of the first topics Apple tackled at its yearly WWDC keynote on Monday, with new ARKit2 features in iOS 12 designed to help people put the technology to …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Batman’s latest trick is coming to life on your kitchen table. At Apple’s WWDC, the company showed off a cool new use of Augmented Reality — a Lego game you can play with friends. LEGO + AR + Apple at WWDC! pic.twitter.com/TXlx0pyTz4 — …
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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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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s annual iOS update, iOS 12, will be hitting devices later this year. It’ll bring things like your standard performance improvements, new Animoji features, Memoji — since everyone has always wanted to turn themselves into an Animoji — group FaceTime, camera effects, ways to …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Sorry, folks. After last year’s hardware-heavy WWDC, we got nothing this year. Bupkis. Not that we were expecting much after a recent Bloomberg report said WWDC 2018 would be all about software, not hardware. But it still stings a little that we have …
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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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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Traditionally, gold watches are heirlooms that never go out of date. The 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, however, is now officially behind the times. According to Apple (via Kyle Seth Gray on Twitter) the original first-generation Apple Watch, gold or otherwise, won’t get …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Sick of signing into TV apps all the time? There’s an Apple TV for that. The company’s streaming video box, CNET’s favorite for Apple fans and big spenders, will roll out a new feature called “zero sign-on” as part of the update to …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has struggled to get people to use its Mac App Store to find and install software, but the company hopes an overhaul will help. The new Mac App Store, unveiled Monday at Apple’s developers conference, will come with a discovery tab to …
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