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iOS 9: Proactive Assistant, Pay in UK, News app, multitasking on iPad, more; public beta in July, final release this fall — Apple Previews iOS 9 — Apple® today unveiled iOS 9, giving a preview of new iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® software that will be available this fall.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
iOS 9 for iPad: split screen, picture-in-picture video, ability to use keyboard as trackpad — Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking In iOS 9 — Apple is looking to make iPads more functional devices for business productivity with a new split-screen app mode which allows iPad users to run two different apps side-by-side.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Apple Announces Proactive Assistant, Its Google Now Competitor — Apple today announced ‘Proactive,’ its rumored Google Now competitor and update to Siri, which will launch with iOS 9. The proactive assistant is a mix of Google Now and similar tools that aim to make the user's life easier …
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Apple shows off new ‘Move to iOS’ app to make it easier to switch from Android — As part of iOS 9, Apple today has announced a new app called Move to iOS that makes the transition from Android to iPhone more seamless for the user. While the app went unannounced during the WWDC keynote …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple officially delivers transit directions to Maps with iOS 9 — Announced on stage at WWDC today, Apple is ready at last to deliver a major upgrade for users of its Apple Maps service. Coming in iOS 9, Apple's Maps application will include integrated transit directions for commuters … | Molly McHugh / Wired: |
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Apple Music launching June 30 on iOS, Mac, and PC with 3 months free, then $9.99 per month, coming to Apple TV and Android phones this fall — Introducing Apple Music — All The Ways You Love Music. All in One Place. — Apple® today unveiled Apple Music™, a single …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Apple announces Apple Music: music streaming, human-curated playlists, Beats 1 24/7 radio, Connect to allow artists to interact with fans — Apple announces its streaming music service, Apple Music — Apple has finally jumped into the music streaming race, unveiling Apple Music at WWDC this afternoon.
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| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
How Apple's new music service compares to what's out there right now — Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook takes the stage during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2013 in San Francisco, California June 10, 2013. REUTERS/Stephen Lam The newly announced Apple Music …
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Apple Previews New Apple Watch Software — watchOS 2 Introduces Native Third-Party Apps, New Watch Faces & Enhanced Communications Features — Apple® today previewed watchOS™ 2, the first major software update for Apple Watch™, giving developers the tools to build faster …
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| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
watchOS 2 coming this fall, SDK allows developers to write native apps, complications, access microphone, speaker, and crown — Apple Unveils The Apple Watch Native App SDK — The Apple Watch just became a much more interesting development platform with the announcement of watchOS 2 and a true native app SDK at WWDC this morning.
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| Peter Burrows / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Apple is building its own content delivery network, considers designing own servers and networking equipment for its data centers — Apple Said to Build High-Speed Network for Fast Content Delivery — Apple Inc. is assembling a high-speed network and upgrading how it builds data centers … | Apple: |
Apple Announces OS X El Capitan with Refined Experience & Improved Performance — Apple® today announced OS X® El Capitan, a new version of OS X that refines the Mac® experience and improves system performance. Building on last year's landmark release of OS X Yosemite …
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| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan coming for free this fall with revamped Spotlight search, better window management, improved performance, Metal API — Apple Announces Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan — At its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple just announced …
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| Yasmin Khan / Skype Blogs: |
Skype Translator Preview coming to Skype for Windows desktop app by end of summer — Skype Translator Preview Is Coming to the Skype for Windows Desktop App — To bring Skype Translator into more people's lives, today we are happy to announce that the Skype Translator preview technology … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Google's Neal Mohan Expected to Move to Dropbox to Head Product — Google vet Neal Mohan is expected to leave the search giant to join Dropbox as its head of product. — Re/code had pinged Dropbox and Mohan about rumors of such a move weeks ago. Sources close to the situation said it was now happening …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Apple announces version 2 of its Swift programming language, plans to open-source it — Apple will open-source its Swift programming language — Breaking news from WWDC: — Read our complete coverage of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. — Apple is taking a big step …
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