As I type this, I’m sitting in a hotel room in San Francisco for my first WWDC. For the past seven years, I’ve followed the annual pilgrimage to Apple’s developer conference from a distance, wishing I was there. This year, I did just that. A few months ago, I decided that I wanted to go...
Connected, Episode 95: RelayCon WWDC 2016→
The Relay FM family comes together in San Francisco to discuss the WWDC announcements, in front of a live audience.
Last night in San Francisco, we recorded a very special episode of Connected featuring multiple segments – with some fantastic co-hosts – on the announcements from WWDC and more. You can listen here.
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Joe Steel’s tvOS Wish List→
I haven’t read many tvOS wish lists this year (primarily because I don’t use my Apple TV very often), but I found Joe Steel’s tvOS wish list to offer a lot of interesting ideas, such as a UI for live programming:
Apple could offer a mechanism for an installed app to register that it offers live video, and to detail what the programming for that live video is. Only the applications that are installed would be present, and their programming viewable while watching another video stream. Potentially you could even ask Siri “What’s on?” to pull up the guide. Or ask “When are the Oscars on?” and get that familiar, linear bar of what’s available.
Let’s not forget that “live TV” isn’t typically live, it’s just an linear stream of shows and ads set to play at given times. That linear stream is a useful way (but not the only way) for people to find new shows thanks to the serendipity of turning on a TV during a certain time slot. Techies might scoff at such notions, but … like it’s a thing.
His thoughts on backups, App Store, and the Remote app are also spot-on.
Canvas, Episode 12: Programming on iOS→
The mission of Canvas has always been to illuminate the parts of iOS that people think cant be done. In that spirit, this week Fraser and Federico dig into how to program on iOS.
We take a look at both traditional Integrated Development Environment tools such as Pythonista and Codea and block-based programming tools like Editorial, Workflow and Hopscotch.
Just ahead of WWDC, Fraser and I prepared a special episode of Canvas all about programming on iOS. It’ll be interesting to see how outdated this will be by next week. You can listen here.
Apple Starts Decorating Moscone West for WWDC 2016
Apple has started decorating Moscone West in San Francisco for WWDC, kicking off this year on Monday, June 13.
Every year, Apple decorates the convention center with different sets of banners: the ones matching the event’s tagline and graphics already available on the WWDC website, and others showing the official (and previously unseen) logos of new versions of iOS and OS X. For the first time, Apple will hold this year’s opening keynote at the Bill Graham auditorium, with technical sessions and labs to be held as usual at Moscone during the week.
Apple is expected to introduce iOS 10, watchOS 3, tvOS 10, and the next version of OS X, likely to be renamed “macOS”. While rumors have been scarce, previous reports indicated Apple could bring Siri to the Mac, introduce a Siri API for developers, and redesign their Music app.
Apple has begun decorating Moscone West with its logo earlier today, and, like every year, we’re documenting the process with photos from San Francisco. With preparations now well underway, Apple will continue to decorate Moscone West with new banners in the next few days, possibly showing the official logos for iOS 10 and OS X 10.12.
We will update this post with more photos throughout the week; new updates will be listed in reverse chronological order below.
You can follow @MacStoriesNet on Twitter or our WWDC 2016 news hub for updates.
Our thanks to the Workflow team for providing us with photos from Moscone West in San Francisco.
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Packing for WWDC
As you read this, I should be on a plane from Rome to London, heading to the UK to meet my friend Myke and go a Connected meetup together. My London visit is the first stop in my WWDC week-long tour – I’ve been to San Francisco before, but never for longer than 24 hours....
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