Maybe this explains why Siri support was low on the feature list when Apple announced HomePod, its venture into the smart speaker space now dominated by the Amazon Echo and Google Home.
The HomePod is due to be released in Australia in December, with the price to be announced soon (expect around $500 based on U.S. pricing).
The most exciting thing to come out of WWDC 2017 was the announcement of the new iMac Pro, which is not only the most powerful iMac workstation ever, but the most powerful Mac ever created. Featuring a 12-megapixel camera, 7 MP selfie cam, and up to 10 hours of battery life, the new iPad Pro costs around $649 for a starting model of 64 GB.
iOS 11 features a swag of iPad only features, including a new Files app, a new dock, and new drag-and-drop features to enable better multitasking and sharing between apps. The jury is still in session on how successful these new iPad Pro tablets will be, combined with iOS 11. Let us know what you think in the comments!
The hardware is improved too. As far as size is concerned, the new tablet maintains roughly the same size as the previous model, with Apple shrinking the bezels surrounding the screen by 40%. "MacBook is our thinnest and lightest notebook for all-day, on-the-go computing".
The new "Kaby Lake" iMac also arrives just behind Dell's brand new Precision AIO 5720 and ahead of any "7th-generation" upgrade to HP's Z1 G2 all-in-one workstation - proving that you don't need a PC for the best of what's available across chip, memory, storage, graphics and display in a single shell. The case comes with a host of features for the new iPad models.
Apple just unveiled an iPad with a brand new screen size (AAPL)
Despite the larger screen, the 10.5-inch iPad Pro didn't get any heavier than its predecessor-it still weighs about one pound. It replaces the 9.7-inch version, although Apple is keeping the 12.9-inch model, which it also refreshed at WWDC.
The MacBook Pro.APApple updated every Mac* in its lineup this week, and there are so many models now that it can be confusing to figure out which one you should buy.
Who should buy it: If you value portability above performance and don't mind paying a premium for that, go with the MacBook. Now they're 43% brighter and can now produce up to a billion different colors, which you're sure to notice.
The regular 27-inch iMac is a dream machine for photo and video editors, designers using CAD software, and other graphics artists with deep pockets. Does any of these new MacBook models seem attractive enough to warrant a purchase, or are the upgrades not good enough? The iMac Pro doubles the latter to four total. An 18-core iMac Pro with all the bells and whistles could be close to-if not exceed-$10,000. Both are also up for sale on the Apple Store.
Just two months later, Apple executives held a special meeting with select tech outlets where they assured developers and creative professionals that new and advanced pro-oriented hardware was in the product pipeline.
The MacBook is Apple's ultraportable laptop, trading portability for speed and connectivity.
The MacBook Pro and MacBook Air line-up of laptops are the best in their class, only recently being outdone by what Microsoft Surface devices are capable of. We'd surmise that you'd have to be editing multiple 4K video streams in real time, or working with complex 3D models in 5K or with a VR headset to justify all that power. In fact, it looks particularly tame - with that Apple minimalism we've come to expect.
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