This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple gave us the message clearly, in case you were curious. iOS and Macs are not fusing. OK. Tim Cook said this before, and Apple’s Craig Federighi clearly declared this on stage at this year’s Apple WWDC conference, taking …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. You’ll need to wait until the fall for the updates to iOS 12 and MacOS Mojave to hit, but there’s no need to wait for the beautiful wallpapers Apple showed off at WWDC. With each software update, Apple introduces new wallpapers to spiff …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Everyone’s making avatars now: Nintendo started it with its Mii in 2006, on the wildly popular Wii console. Microsoft quickly “borrowed” that idea for Xbox Avatars. Bitmoji — first an independent company, later purchased by Snap — popularized the personalized emojis on mobile …
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I am sitting in the audience at the Castro Theater for the San Francisco International Film Festival. The film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot just finished and Gus Van Sant and Danny Elfman, the film’s director and composer, respectively, take the stage for an interview. I panic. “Is my iPhone on? Or is it off? I’m pretty …
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The constant dings. The aimless scrolling. The privacy worries. The neck aches. I don’t feel healthy using an iPhone. It leaves me concerned about my mental health and questioning just how addicted my brain is to all these noisy, shallow apps. And yet this is a tool I need to do my job and survive in this world. So it’s …
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One of the first speaker makers to support Apple’s new AirPlay 2 system for whole-home audio was Sonos, and now we know when it’s coming: July. AirPlay 2 allows you to control multiple compatible speakers like the HomePod or Sonos, or Apple TV devices, around the home, and stream music to them using an iPhone, iPad or Mac computer. Supported …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Four new Apple apps coming to MacOS Mojave later this year began their lives as iOS apps. And if Apple gets its way, that could be the beginning of a deluge of new software rejuvenating its personal computers. At the company’s Worldwide Developers …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. If you were looking to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference for big game-changing leaps or new hardware, you might have walked away a little disappointed. Monday’s keynote, it turns out, was about the little things. That’s not to say the changes were insignificant. Indeed, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple may be one of the biggest tech companies in the world, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t too big to throw some grade-A shade. Just like last week’s celebrity saga of Drake vs. Pusha T and Kanye West, but less interesting and …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I have a thing about companies like Google and Apple trying to make out like digital assistants are our friends. Although I love the technology, I find the implication of making them more human pathetically desperate and ridiculously self-serving. But to me the …
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