This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple announced new MacBooks and its new MacOS High Sierra software at WWDC 2017 on Monday, but neglected to mention it has added AppleCare+ protection for Macs. (There was a lot to get through, to be fair.) Previously, it offered …
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High-end virtual reality is making its way to Macs. HTC’s virtual reality headset, Vive, will be compatible with Apple’s latest operating system, High Sierra, the Taiwanese company said Monday in a blog post. This comes in conjunction with Apple’s announcement Monday that it’s working with video game maker Valve’s SteamVR platform to make it compatible with High Sierra. “Through a newly …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Virtual Reality. Steam. Unity. Unreal. External graphics. They’re not words you’d usually expect Apple to utter during the Mac portion of a press conference — the company has all but ignored desktop gaming for years. But it just announced it will natively support …
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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 demos iOS 11 on the new iPad Pro 1:31 Apple says the new iOS 11 will make multitasking easier for the iPad. During the tech giant’s annual WWDC developers conference, Apple software head Craig Federighi said the new software features include: …
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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: Hands-on with Apple’s new MacBooks 1:27 Apple‘s 2017 WWDC keynote was chock full of big news — everything from new iPad Pros, new iMacs and even its new HomePod speaker, in addition to the usual overhauls of its Mac, …
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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 racked up 27 million Apple Music subscribers, said Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, Monday at WWDC. That’s about 7 million more since December. For context, music streaming service Spotify hit about 50 million subscribers in March. Apple Music was …
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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 Pay lets you send money to friends and family 1:23 Soon you’ll be able to pay your friend for that ski trip using Apple Pay. Apple on Monday showed off a new person-to-person payment system. The new service …
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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 unveils iMac Pro at WWDC 2:29 For WWDC 2017, Apple headed south to San Jose, dogged by damning comparisons with Google, Facebook and Microsoft over its lack of attention to mixed reality (VR and AR), Siri’s absence from …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Your Apple hardware is about to get a notch smarter as the company builds new artificial intelligence abilities into Macs and iPhones — and lets other programmers tap into that power. AI technology will mean Siri better understands what you want and speaks …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple looks like they’re striking the right balance for their Control Center feature with the new iOS 11. The company showed off the redesigned section during the company’s keynote at WWDC 2017. Scroll up from the bottom of your screen, and you’ll see …
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