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Everything Apple just announced at WWDC 2020: iOS 14, MacOS Big Sur, new Mac chips

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple‘s opening keynote Monday for WWDC 2020, its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, started with Tim Cook addressing the empty auditorium about Black Lives Matter and coronavirus before it launched into the announcement of iOS 14 and its home-screen …

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Apple gives Macs a brain transplant with new Arm chips starting this year

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is overhauling its Mac computers with its own Arm chips, close cousins to those it designs for its own iPhones and iPads. Moving away from the Intel processors it’s used for the last 14 years is a historic change that disrupts software …

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Good news for future Macs: The fastest supercomputer uses Arm chips

In a development that oddly enough bodes well for Apple Macs, a Fujitsu machine has been named fastest in the world. The system, called Fugaku and installed at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Japan, features processors that are members of the Arm family that Apple will use in its Mac personal computers later this year. Fugaku uses Fujitsu …

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Apple’s own apps like Final Cut will support Mac Arm from Day 1

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference that kicked off online on Monday, Apple announced all of its own native apps — like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro — will offer support for its first Arm chip and first Arm-based Mac within Apple’s newly announced …

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Apple still plans to support Intel

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple finally confirmed its long-rumored plan to switch to using its own Arm-based processors for Macs at its Worldwide Developers Conference Monday, but that doesn’t mean it’s giving up fully on Intel.  Appearing on video at its WWDC 2020 event after a demonstration detailing …

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Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud will support Mac Arm natively

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference that kicked off online on Monday, Apple announced Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud support for its first Arm chip and first Arm-based Macs, which it calls Apple silicon. The chips mark a move away from the …

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Apple finally counts past 10 with MacOS Big Sur, aka MacOS 11

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. After 19 years stuck on the same major version number, Apple is finally unsticking MacOS. MacOS Big Sur, the first incarnation of its operating system to run on Apple’s upcoming Arm-based Macs as well as its older Intel-based lineage, will get the version …

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Apple WWDC: Developers can order Arm

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s virtual Worldwide Developers Conference for 2020 started Monday, and while it was a given the online-only WWDC would bring updates to the company’s operating systems such as iOS 14, new hardware announcements are rare. This year, though, we got news about Apple’s …

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Apple typo calls new MacOS Big Sur ‘Bug Sur’ instead

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. On the big debut of Apple’s new version of MacOS Big Sur, a slip of somebody’s finger led Apple to accidentally call its new operating system “Bug Sur” instead. The typo was in an email sent to people who’d signed up to test …

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Apple’s new Arm

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s upcoming Macs that use its own processors will immediately have a huge library of software: the millions of iPhone and iPad apps in the App Store.  Apple on Monday, at its first digital Worldwide Developers Conference, said its new Macs will be …

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