WWDC 2015, Apple’s new: News, Music, iOS 9, El Capitan – The Republic

SAN FRANCISCO – music, lots of music. To select, to stream and share. To challenge Spotify, Google, Deezer and others. Then, surprisingly, the news, warm soil on which we play a game very interesting and that has already seen big hi-tech – such as Facebook – down firmly on the pitch. But the news that Apple introduced in the first day of the WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) that annually summons to the Moscone Center in San Francisco developers of the Apple programs around the world, do not stop to this new social-streaming service or app called News that is proposed as a kind of Flipboard reinvented. There are three operating systems: the OSX 10.11 El Capitan, Yosemite will happen to Apple computers, iOS9 that will change the face of the iPhone and the iPad, and the new version of WatchOS that will enrich the functions of the Apple Watch (in sale in Italy on June 26). These three systems – the CEO of Cupertino has repeatedly called “three wonderful platforms” – will come in the fall. Only the Apple Music – which has revived the tradition of “One More Thing …” – we find out first, as early as June 30, in 100 countries, including Italy.

No hardware, therefore, as indeed in predictions of the vigil. It will wait a few months and maybe more, for the new Apple TV, a candidate to be the digital hub of our house. Negotiations between the executive of Cupertino who will provide content to the Apple TV streaming service have not yet been finalized. Meanwhile, however, with this look at the horizon of software that will move all this ecosystem we can understand what awaits us in the short term. Let’s see, one by one, the new software presented today.

Apple Music . E ‘was left in the bottom of the Keynote of the way, to take all the proscenium. A service introduced by the old fox of the music that is Jimmy Iovine , record producer who began working on the sound of Lennon and Springsteen and then move to U2, Tom Petty & amp; The Heartbreakers, Stevie Nicks, Simple Minds, Dire Straits and Patti Smith. Not only that: it is also one of the creators of the Beats, the company bought by Apple last year to $ 3 billion that brings with it a service streaming music over his headphones trendy. In short, an authority in your field. How does Apple Music? And ‘three things together, says Iovine: a revolutionary music service with the ability to listen to all the songs on iTunes, a global radio Beats 1 that runs 24 hours a day for 7 days and transmitted from Los Angeles, New York and London ( with playlists created by artists, and here there is the hand of Beats) and a new and powerful interaction between fans and artists thanks to the Connect service. And ‘ambitious service Apple Music, which happens to the unfortunate iTunes radio. It has set a goal of 100 million users to override the popular Spotify traveling around 60. The challenge has begun. The price is in line with competitors 9.9 dollars a month for a single sign, 14,99 a family package with 6 hits. The first three months are free, and news of a certain level, the platform will be available on WIndows and Android.

News . And the app that launches Apple in the world of information and presented it Susan Prescott, product manager of the app, one of the women, for the first time in the history of an Apple event, to take the stage along with Jennifer Bailey , head of the division apple pay. So, News is an aggregator (daily, weekly, blogs, news sites) that resembles a lot to Flipboard, but some look more polished. How Flipboard learn from our tastes, our habits. The app will be integrated in iOS9 and therefore not before the autumn we will see. It stems from agreements made with authoritative newspapers such as, among others, Time, Guardian, CNN, ESPN, Economist, Financial Times, Vogue, People, Vanity Fair and New York Times. The latter, for example, provide free thirty articles per day. An app that opens up a world and looking straight at Instant articles of Facebook, where the application for the iPhone social nine major media groups – including New York Times, BBC, Guardian, Spiegel – offer content selected only for FB. For two months there is Spotify in the content sector with the launch of the “Now” (but not in Italy).

iOs9 . “Show me pictures of the camp.” “Remember that I have to go to the hardware store.” Among the many new features of the new system for iPhone and iPad that strikes the imagination of many. Let’s say that some of these functions we find on Google Now, Android. But Apple takes his and makes a Siri voice assistant that – ensures Craig Federighi , head of Apple software – now it includes 40 percent more. A Siri, then you will no longer need to speak with the predefined phrases. But we will understand what we want and we will give answers in greater depth, both in our device to the web. Not only Siri becomes Proactive, proactive, and learn from our habits and precedes us with suggestions. Accept invitations for us and puts them appointments in the calendar, contacts suggests that we see most often, the music starts when we take the headphones. In short, we assist us in many passages of the daily routine. Another element: all these conversations, these conversations with Siri remain on device- ensures Apple – do not pass on the servers of Cupertino and our data does not end up in third-party companies.
More news iOS9 more versatile application notes, more Full Map enriched data on public transport to all. The keyboard earns copy and paste and can be turned into a multitouch trackpad. With the split-View (but only on the iPad Air 2) we have the ability to view two applications together on the screen (this is the true multitasking) and we can reduce it to a window and place it where we want while we use another program. Chapter consumption. The optimization of the code iOS9 earns an hour of battery life with the iPad and the low-power mode the hours go up to three. Another good news: iOS9 you can install on all devices on which it runs iOS8 both iPhone and iPad. And even those who have 16 GB of memory, whereas the installer takes up little more than a 4 Gb against four of its predecessor. Finally: HomeKit now supports new sensors and new sensor comes the new version of the programming language that becomes Swift open source (in this annunio triggered a standing ovation from the thousands of developers in attendance) and will also be available Linux.
El Capitan . Meanwhile, the name of the new Mac OSX 10.11: is to a mountain peak 2,307 meters high located in the park of Yosemite, the name of the operating system of Apple computers. More powerful, lighter, safer. There are new gestures, there’s Spotlight to which we can speak with much more freedom. There are apps that can be put side by side (as it does in Windows), there is an optimization of the software that allows the graphics rendering more performance (Metal comes from iOS) and is happy and manufacturers of video game players. Mail that open twice as fast and Pdf that they do four times. In July, developers, in autumn for all.
WatchOS . Version 2 of the operating system of Apple Watch it now has a name, brings many improvements after the bugs that had puzzled many users. Become an alarm clock, Time Travel that allows us to understand what happens before it happens (from weather to information about flight delays and so it goes), you can answer email, we will have the HD audio communications in FaceTime, new software for the photo album WhatFace, you can use the TimeLapse. Overall app, native and no, much more fluid in a system altogether more adult.

Apple Pay . Finally, the contactless payment system from Apple, presented by Vice President Jennifer Bailey. The United States is widening his circle of exercises connected but the news is that lands in Europe, in Great Britain from July. We’ll start with approximately 250,000 stores, you can pay public transport with apple pay. For the rest benefits of a regular credit card with rewards points and other incentives. Everything still far from Italy.

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