WWDC 2019: Apple unveils Mac Pro computer, iOS13 and iPadOS, as death of iTunes announced

Apple WWDC 2019 — Goodnight Developers

Apple has unveiled updates for iPhone, Apple Watch and a host of other products – as well as its most powerful computer ever: the Mac Pro.

The company made the announcements at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, in California on Monday.

It revealed all the major software updates that it will push out to the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV later this year.

Unlike other events such as the iPhone reveal, none of these new updates will require paying up for new products. Instead, they will come in the form of operating system updates, which will bring a whole host of new features to most existing iPhones.

Apple unveiled iOS 13, for instance, the new software that will power the iPhone. It brings with it a new dark mode, better multitasking features, and changes to the way the phones store health data.

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Key Points

• Apple announces overhaul of Apple Watch
• iOS 13 comes with a host of new features for iPhones
• Brand new iPad OS unveiled
• Apple unveils the Mac Pro, its most powerful computer ever
• iTunes is dead

[3 June 2019 19:51 · anthony.cuthbertson]

Moving on, and its more unhappy news.

As we'd expected, it's RIP iTunes.

[3 June 2019 19:54 · anthony.cuthbertson]

The Mac Pro - all $12,000 of it - will be available at some point this autumn.

[3 June 2019 19:56 · anthony.cuthbertson]

Federighi is explaining how iTunes is splitting into three apps: Apple Music, Apple TV and Apple Podcasts.

[3 June 2019 19:59 · anthony.cuthbertson]

The changes will come in the new version of MacOS, which we're hearing about now.

It's named Catalina and it will be released later this year.

[3 June 2019 20:02 · anthony.cuthbertson]

One of the new apps native to Catalina OS is FindMy.

It's a combination of Find My Friends and Find My iPhone, and it can be used to find offline devices through a secure Bluetooth beacon. 

[3 June 2019 20:04 · anthony.cuthbertson]

Federighi is talking augmented reality now, with RealityKit.

[3 June 2019 20:05 · anthony.cuthbertson]

Apple have been ahead of the curve when it comes to AR for a while, but people have still been wondering what the so-called 'killer app' will be.

[3 June 2019 20:07 · anthony.cuthbertson]

Could this be it? They're bringing MineCraft to the real world...

Minecraft Earth lets you "turn the real world into your playground".

[3 June 2019 20:08 · anthony.cuthbertson]

Hmmmm, not sure if it's quite the 'killer app' we've been waiting for, but it looks like a lot of fun.

[3 June 2019 20:08 · anthony.cuthbertson]

Like Pokemon Go, but you're actually in it.