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What To Expect At Apple WWDC 2017?

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06 June, 2017

It's the day before WWDC 2017: The Artificial Intelligencing, where Apple can brag about its new circular Park campus, advanced adoption of its Swift Playgrounds and, oh yeah, a lot of hardware. It's bound to be a spectacular showcase of new hardware and software as usual, but the affair is reportedly going to miss out on a few highly anticipated products, including the iMac 2017 model and a revamped Mac Mini. Apple's Mail and Safari apps could also get support for the Apple Pencil, and new iPad Pro related features could be announced.

In any event, you'll want to visit the Apple website to watch the stream, kicking off at 10am PDT/7pm SAST.

How can I watch the WWDC 2017 keynote? The smart speaker is expected to come with a display screen, great audio quality, will run a platform for Siri (obviously), and perform some additional functions not seen before in this category. Cook may even lift the cover on a smart speaker based on the Siri virtual assistant.

Word has it that new MacBooks are set to be revealed together with the highly talked about 10.5-inch iPad Pro. New MacBooks, however, are expected to show up. A MacBook Air refresh isn't a fail-safe bet, but previous reports indicate that Apple's most affordable notebook is getting a new processor as well. The last time that the iMac was updated nearly two years ago, and the Mac Mini hasn't received a refresh in nearly three years.

We have not heard much about the upgrade but we have heard an upgrade to the MacBook family of products.

There have been speculations that iOS 11, which is to be unveiled by Apple today at WWDC 2017, will only support 64- bit software. The end of the line for 32-bit apps started with the Apple iPhone 5s in September 2013, which featured the Apple A7 chipset and its 64-bit CPU. Interestingly, FaceTime is expected to get a long-awaited overhaul, and one of the biggest changes is said to be the introduction of group video calling ability. Lifestyle apps which include fitness and health apps also registered growth of more than 70% during the same period.

It's worth noting though that the stream predictably uses Apple's proprietary streaming tech, which "requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Safari on iOS 7.0 or later, a Mac with Safari 6.0.5 or later on OS X v10.8.5 or later, or a PC with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10". We will be on ground zero and will be updating you ball by ball.


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