06 June, 2017
There is plenty of incentive for developers to get behind the new gadget.
As announced by Apple, the WWDC 2017 keynote is due to begin at 6pm on Monday 5 June 2017 for those of us in the United Kingdom, while U.S. residents will have to get up a little earlier (it starts at 10am PT).
While it is pointless speculating hours before an Apple event, what we can rest assured is that there will be updates announced for all software platforms from Apple - iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS.
Tapping Apple's Siri digital assistant, such a speaker is expected to serve as a butler as well as an outlet for listening to music.
It will be the first time Apple has presented new hardware at the conference since 2013. One of the two is believed to be a new, 10.5-inch iPad Pro, while the other could be a successor to the 12.9-inch iPad Pro model from 2015.
During the course of the keynote at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, Apple did disclose a few numbers: It's been 15 years since the company held a WWDC in San Jose.
With iOS 11, deep learning takes place on the iOS device, allowing for Siri to perform translations in various languages, such as English German, Spanish and Chinese, as well as predicting what a user might do, write or search next.
While it sounds exciting, you will not know that you can tune in and watch Apple's WWDC 2017 announcement live - here's where we show you how. According to a new "intelligence" feature, Siri has been enabled to make suggestions which might be of interest to its particular users, like a news article on the internet. The update will be available in the fall.
Apple is arguably behind Google, Amazon and Microsoft when it comes to a virtual assistant, but with iOS 11, Siri might just be catching up at a rapid pace. For example, Apple Watch would surface traffic and exercise notifications for early morning workout warriors.
"Very different WWDC than what I expected", tweeted Carolina Milanesi, analyst at Creative Strategies.
Blau was also impressed by Apple's "pretty strong offering", especially on the AI end.
Are you at home right now and you want to watch Apple's WWDC 2017 keynote on the big screen? "Now all the tech titans are engaged in AI technology". There will be hardware announcements also this time, and we are hoping to hear about new MacBooks and iPads.
macOS: 11 teraflops performance with new AMD Radeon Vega graphics on the iMac Pro. Many market analysts offered long odds of Apple discussing augmented reality because it was so nascent. With the AR Kit, developers can build apps such as Pokemon Go, albeit with a much more enhanced output.
