Vox - WWDC 2016: All the news, video and analysishttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/52517/voxv.png2016-06-17T06:30:03-04:00http://www.vox.com/rss/stream/116874992016-06-17T06:30:03-04:002016-06-17T06:30:03-04:00Why isn't Apple's iMessage on Android?
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<p>All the news from Apple’s WWDC, broken down by The Verge’s Lauren Goode and Dieter Bohn.</p> <p id="IAY3yY"><iframe scrolling="no" style="width: 100%; height: 200px; border-width: 0px; border-style: none;" src="https://art19.com/shows/too-embarrassed-to-ask/episodes/e0831259-3cf5-4b7b-87e4-85ee7304ccb3/embed?theme=black&primary_color=%23C60018"></iframe></p>
<p>At its annual <a href="http://www.recode.net/wwdc">Worldwide Developers Conference</a> this week, Apple announced changes to how it will sell apps, to the Apple Watch operating system watchOS and to its messaging app iMessage. But as always, what the consumer tech giant <em>didn’t</em> say is just as interesting.</p>
<p id="Yot57C">Top of the list for <strong>Too Embarrassed to Ask </strong>host Lauren Goode and her special guest host, The Verge’s Dieter Bohn: iMessage, which is getting its own app store and several new features to compete with Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Conspicuously absent, though, is compatibility with non-iDevices, which suggests Apple still sees messaging as a competitive battlefield. Sorry, Android users!</p>
<p id="js46v3">On the new podcast, Lauren and Dieter also discussed improvements to the Apple TV and the Macintosh operating system, newly re-christened macOS. And they answered several questions from our readers and listeners about Apple’s beta programs, how Siri compares to Amazon’s Alexa and rumors about what Cupertino’s next hardware will be.</p>
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https://www.vox.com/2016/6/17/11960704/apple-wwdc-2016-imessage-android-podcastEric Johnson2016-06-15T09:00:06-04:002016-06-15T09:00:06-04:00Mossberg: Apple is still a world of its own
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<p>Unpacking a packed WWDC.</p> <p id="gEdLJ5">As usual, there were scores of feature changes and announcements to Apple’s four software platforms (iOS, watchOS, tvOS and the newly-renamed macOS) at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Just listing them all here would tax the patience of all but the most Apple-obsessed readers.</p>
<p id="zqls4I">But there were two big themes, and a few significant moves consistent with them, that I believe stood out in the cascade of slides and demos the company showed at WWDC. They show how stubbornly Apple clings to both its principles and its profit centers.</p>
<h3 id="Ibknab"><strong>Apple says it can both compete in AI and protect privacy</strong></h3>
<p id="jfyUq2">As the entire tech industry seems to be pivoting to a new push toward artificial intelligence, a number of writers, <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/25/11765624/walt-mossberg-apple-wwdc-2016-siri-ai-bots">including me</a>, have wondered aloud if the company can hold its own in teaching its software using big data, because it has vowed never to compromise users’ privacy.</p>
<p id="ynC4n0">At WWDC, Apple announced a way out of this seeming dilemma: A method called "differential privacy," which sounds like a made-up marketing term but in fact has been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy">documented and discussed</a> by data scientists for decades.</p>
<p id="P6AqHH">In oversimplified terms, Apple plans to do as much machine learning as possible locally on the device. But when it has to combine a lot of user data to, say, come up with slang terms to include in keyboard word suggestions, it will protect users’ individual data using differential privacy.</p>
<p id="GYMBtp">This works by randomizing local data from each device by injecting it with meaningless "noise," or nonsense data, so it can’t be traced back to the device’s user. Then this information is mingled on Apple servers with very large amounts of similarly randomized data from many, many other devices. To further protect individuals, Apple is also imposing a "privacy budget" that will prevent too much data — even when randomized — from getting to the server from any one user.</p>
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<p id="imL9kR">Even though the data is no longer precise due to the randomization, Apple says it still displays a "slight bias" toward trends that would be valuable for the software to learn, such as new slang words.</p>
<p id="SN7VdG">You may wonder why Apple didn’t simply use aggregated anonymous data, without jumping through these hoops. But in fact, anonymous data can, and has, been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy">cracked</a> to reveal certain individual information.</p>
<p id="CMkkmy">It isn’t clear whether this combination of local machine learning and differential privacy will be enough for Apple to keep up in AI with Google, Facebook and Amazon, part of whose businesses is to collect usable information about their users — something Apple vows not to do. For one thing, Apple is starting slowly, using differential privacy at first to do only a few things, like improve autocorrect and search suggestions.</p>
<p id="lAbCY3">But the use of differential privacy appears to give the company an avenue to learn from large data sets, like its competitors, and still keep the super-hard line on privacy that makes it the hero of privacy advocates, the scourge of the FBI and different from its competitors. Personally, I hope it works, not because it will help Apple (whose stock I do not own and from whom I get no money or gifts), but because it could help set benchmarks for privacy in tech.</p>
<h2 id="1O4muc"><strong>Despite the push to services, Apple is still about hardware</strong></h2>
<p id="2binYG">With its key hardware sales either dropping or flat, Apple has been talking more and more about making money from services, especially subscription services, like Apple Music and the new <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/8/11880730/apple-app-store-subscription-update-phil-schiller-interview">subscription-based App Store</a>. But there were plenty of hints at WWDC that the company, which rose to glory on the back of brilliant gadgets, is still wedded to a hardware-first strategy. That’s true even though the late Steve Jobs sometimes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeyaAUCyZs">called it a software company.</a></p>
<p id="6Zo5cj">The best example of this was that it again declined to extend its much-loved, much-used iMessage messaging system to Android, even though Google still seems vulnerable in this area. Apple did announce a clutch of new features for iMessage, like giant emojis and handwritten texts. And it’s turning the service into a true platform that can host third-party apps like cash transfer services, stickers, photo editing and restaurant reservation apps. But all of this seemed more about keeping people on Apple hardware than about building the biggest possible services.</p>
<p id="u9wN9e">When I asked a senior Apple executive why iMessage wasn’t being expanded to other platforms, he gave two answers. First, he said, Apple considers its own user base of one billion active devices big enough to provide a large enough data set for any possible AI learning the company is working on. And second, having a superior messaging platform that only worked on Apple devices would help sales of those devices — the company’s classic (and successful) rationale for years.</p>
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<p id="QZWB8K">Another example: While Siri, Apple’s famous voice-controlled intelligent assistant, is coming to the Mac, it will do different things there than it does on the iPhone. For instance, it won’t be able to launch apps by command using the app name on the Mac, as it does on the iPhone. It already does different things on the Apple Watch, on Apple TV and in CarPlay. It is seen as a tool to enhance each particular device’s usage, not as a broad standalone service in itself. Even though some third-party apps will now be able to make use of it, it’s still something that is proprietary to Apple hardware, unlike, say, iTunes.</p>
<p id="ZrAxx3">Sure, Apple wants to improve its ecosystem, which is why it continues to introduce new cross-device features, like copy and paste between a phone and a laptop — an announcement which drew lusty applause from the WWDC thousands. And you’ll be able to unlock your computer with your watch. But these features, like so many others, work only if your various devices come from Apple.</p>
<p id="r0W5Hy">This is different from Google or Facebook or Microsoft, whose messaging and other key apps — including their voice-controlled AI assistants — work on competing devices.</p>
<p id="mvCcbH">Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too.</p>
<h3 id="aTxKlB"><strong>Apple Watch gets a rescue </strong></h3>
<p id="lcTO67">This update (and the following two) aren’t quite as big as the first two, but it’s notable nonetheless. Arguably Apple’s least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient. Instead, Apple announced a massively improved new operating system for it that amounts to nothing less than a complete reboot for the device. You can read a full analysis of it <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/14/11926314/apple-watch-os3-new-software-faster-third-party-apps-wwdc">here</a>. The redesign speeds up app launching dramatically, even on current watch hardware; eliminates tedious extra steps; and revamps almost the entire user experience. This is yet another bit of proof that Apple’s software is all about selling hardware.</p>
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<h3 id="S4u2uX"><strong>Apple TV plays nice with Big Cable</strong></h3>
<p id="D0mka3">Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it’s still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you’re a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new TV app. It’s an aggravating process that usually involves repeatedly hauling out a PC or Mac and typing in usernames and passwords and codes you have no other reason to remember.</p>
<p id="Crhbam">But at WWDC, Apple took a step toward making Apple TV way more convenient with a single sign-on. This works by storing your sign-on information the first time with the cable provider, then sending anonymous tokens proving you’re a legit cable customer for every cable service you want to use after that. Again, even a seemingly small feature like this points to smart software as a driver of hardware sales.</p>
<h3 id="Cd5ISq"><strong>Like I said ...</strong></h3>
<p id="ZjZ69y">Some people (<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/3/10900612/walt-mossberg-apple-iphone-ios-mac-osx-app-problems">including me</a>) have complained that Apple’s core iOS and Mac apps, like Calendar and Mail, have deteriorated over time and aren’t up to the high standards Apple sets for itself. Others have noted that, because of this, even though they use Apple hardware, they mainly use apps from Google.</p>
<p id="Ap2G76">At WWDC, Apple seemed to act on these views by quietly making it possible in the forthcoming new iOS 10 to <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204221">remove or hide core Apple apps</a> from your home screen if you like. The apps can be re-downloaded from the App Store. There are some catches. Not every core app can be dumped (the camera app, for example, can’t be banished, nor can the Messages app). And the company warns that removing some apps can wipe out data or foul up interactions with other apps.</p>
<p id="s2wHuR">Based on these software features and other announcements at WWDC this week, it’s clear to me that, for better or worse, Apple continues to seek its own path, as it has for decades. Like many other tech companies, it has its eye on smarter software through artificial intelligence, is setting new standards for what interactions will look like down the road and is looking at ways to disrupt legacy media. But at Apple’s core, it is still a company intent on driving its users toward simple software, housed in proprietary hardware.</p>
<p><small><em>This article originally appeared on Recode.net.</em></small></p>
https://www.vox.com/2016/6/15/11940908/mossberg-apple-is-still-a-world-of-its-ownWalt Mossberg2016-06-14T06:00:03-04:002016-06-14T06:00:03-04:00Here's how to remove Apple's built-in system apps in iOS 10
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<p>Say goodbye to your junk folder.</p> <p id="Nrs2ZN">Here’s an unexpected but nice feature that Apple is launching in iOS 10: The ability to remove and delete built-in system apps.</p>
<p>Apple has <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204221">published a list of apps</a> you’ll be able to delete when iOS 10 launches this fall for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The instructions for how to do so are pretty simple, and it's worth reading what happens when you remove something like Calculator.</p>
<p id="QbOi84">The apps you will be able to remove are: Calculator, Calendar, Compass, Contacts, FaceTime, Find My Friends, Home, iBooks, iCloud Drive, iTunes Store, Mail, Maps, Music, News, Notes, Podcasts, Reminders, Stocks, Tips, Videos, Voice Memos, Watch app and Weather.</p>
<p id="xBUbsk">Apple’s support document, <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/06/13/ios-10-remove-apps">found via Daring Fireball</a>, warns that deleting these apps can cause problems, affecting "things like related system functions or information on your Apple Watch."</p>
<p id="SS03vh">Still, this is likely to be a popular feature, especially among power users. Many iOS users already relegate a bunch of these apps, especially the built-in Stocks and Weather apps, to a "Junk" folder. Being able to delete unwanted apps altogether is a logical step. It won’t save much space — Apple notes that all these apps combined use less than 150 megabytes — but it at least affords some elegance. (You’ll also be able to re-download the apps via the App Store.)</p>
<p id="LbWXdu">Developers can already install a beta version of iOS 10, but it’s not yet a good idea for most users.</p>
<p><small><em>This article originally appeared on Recode.net.</em></small></p>
https://www.vox.com/2016/6/14/11929496/apple-ios-10-system-apps-trashDan Frommer2016-06-13T20:10:34-04:002016-06-13T20:10:34-04:00Here’s how Apple plans to protect privacy and still compete on AI
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<p>The technique involves obscuring personal data but still getting the big picture.</p> <p id="I4tyjD">A theory has taken hold in tech: Apple’s devotion to privacy <a href="https://marco.org/2016/05/21/avoiding-blackberrys-fate">will handicap it</a> during the next major wave of computing, where artificial intelligence like voice interaction, personal assistants and automation take center stage.</p>
<p id="GuQPR1">This morning Apple gave its response: It won’t handicap us, because we can do both.</p>
<p id="wVVfEw">Apple’s answer? A concept called "differential privacy" — an en vogue statistical method designed to reap useful intel from big piles of data while protecting personally identifying information therein.</p>
<p id="3y0Dip">It’s a fitting approach. Apple has branded itself as antithetical to Google and Facebook, companies that rely on reams of data. But Apple also wants to provide the perks these companies offer — more smart, personalized services — that require reams of data. Most of the operating system updates Apple introduced on Monday at <a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/6/13/11920690/liveblog-link-2016-wwdc">its developer conference</a> revolve around these perks.</p>
<p id="v06EoK">"All of this great work in iOS 10 would be meaningless if it came at the expense of your privacy," Apple SVP Craig Federighi said onstage.</p>
<p id="whG37U">Apple touted an endorsement from Aaron Roth, a computer scientist who specializes in differential privacy.</p>
<p id="WdKKk6">But the method is untested with wide use, as it will be across all Apple devices. And some researchers are skeptical of its real world applicability. One <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2326746">legal paper</a> argued that the differential privacy method "will usually produce either very wrong research results or very useless privacy protections."</p>
<p id="h9TC9o">So it’s unclear if Apple would be able to deploy the method to deliver its advanced software — or, conversely, really provide the safeguards Apple promises.</p>
<p id="lVxIzk">Federighi went out of his way to note that Apple doesn’t assemble user profiles and it encrypts communications on iMessage and FaceTime. But its embrace of differential privacy acknowledges the value of data in delivering good software. Apple recognizes that it needs to analyze user behavior to improve the accuracy of its recommendations — the links users choose most often in response to a Spotlight search query, or the emojis that are most popular.</p>
<p id="QPXciL">To obscure a person’s identity, the company said it will inject a small amount of "noise," or randomness, to what the user does — so each little interaction, on its own, is meaningless. But over time, trends will emerge that help improve features, like the QuickType recommendations or the links Spotlight suggests.</p>
<p id="HURYNl">Apple also imposes a privacy "budget" on individual users, so it doesn't recover too much information from any user.</p>
<p id="rt3Wm9">"It's a powerful technology that allows us to use information from users and still maintain user privacy," said Apple's Sebastien Marineau-Mes in remarks during the keynote event.</p>
<p id="ONdgK6">Still, it's a relatively new approach. And despite the emphasis on privacy, critics worry whether any amount of shrouding of data is enough to guard private information.</p>
<p id="zuh6bu">There’s a lot of interest in differential privacy at Microsoft. And Google is experimenting with this approach with its<a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/how-google-tricks-itself-to-protect-chrome-user-privacy/"> Rappor project</a>, to help identify sites that are likely to infect its Chrome browser with malware.</p>
<p id="ZsQgMH">Cynthia Dwork, a researcher with Microsoft, helped invent this approach and has published on the topic for years. She offered one example: Health researchers conduct a survey to see how many people carry the trait for sickle cell anemia within a particular group.</p>
<p id="JMklqo">A straight-ahead data analysis would yield a precise result — say, seven people. But researchers could compromise someone’s privacy — say, the president’s — with a second question: How many people in the group, other than the president, has this inherited trait?</p>
<p id="88GSSp">"If you have exact answers to both questions, then you can determine whether or not the president has the sickle cell trait," said Dwork. "By adding independently generated noise to both answers, we protect the privacy of the president."</p>
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<p><small><em>This article originally appeared on Recode.net.</em></small></p>
https://www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11925660/apple-differential-privacyDawn ChmielewskiMark Bergen2016-06-13T18:12:30-04:002016-06-13T18:12:30-04:00Apple developers are excited to talk with Siri, but aren't sure just how friendly she will be
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<p>The move to open up Maps, Siri and iMessage is clearly welcome news, but Apple is known for keeping a tight hold on its operating system.</p> <p id="XIGkK0">Developers have long wanted deeper access to the iPhone’s inner workings, so the fact that Apple is opening up Siri, Maps and iMessage is clearly welcome news.</p>
<p id="F6v6rY">But, while eager to integrate their apps, some developers said Monday that they aren’t sure just how open Apple is getting.</p>
<p id="TN0BdT">The uncertainty stems in part from the fact that Apple didn’t go into a ton of specifics during <a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/6/13/11920690/liveblog-link-2016-wwdc">Monday’s WWDC keynote</a> on just what outside developers will be able to do within iMessage or Siri. The best way of understanding how Apple is opening Siri and iMessage is probably to look at the examples the company offered up onstage.</p>
<p id="3Gcxbh">In the demo, Apple showed using DoorDash within iMessage to work on a group food order and using Siri to dictate a message on WeChat or search through photos on Shutterfly.</p>
<p id="bFAhX8">There are more possibilities, though. Apple says developers can connect Siri to access messaging and calling apps, book rides, start and pause workouts and make payments. iPhone owners in a CarPlay-equipped vehicle can also control apps via Siri, while automakers can use Siri to handle climate controls or adjust the radio within their own apps.</p>
<p id="qo7cWx">Still unclear is how Siri will rank requests or decide when multiple services are capable of fulfilling a request. Clearly, phrases such as "Order me an Uber" or "Order me a Lyft" will pull up those services, but what happens when you say "Order me a car?"</p>
<p id="bZE9Y1">Beyond Siri, developers can also plug into Maps and iMessage, as well as Apple’s calling app, allowing services such as WhatsApp and Skype to be used more easily for calling. Apple is also finally letting third-party services offer Caller ID-like functionality to help detect spam calls, something they had long been able to do on Android.</p>
<p id="Ol7px6">Here’s what some developers told <strong>Recode</strong> about how they plan to take advantage of a more open Siri.</p>
<ul id="fvoXgb"> <li>Pinterest says with its integration users will be able to search for ideas that they or others have saved, such as "Hey Siri, find winery Pins on Pinterest near Napa," or "my vegetarian recipe Pins," or "men's fashion ideas on Pinterest." That will launch into the Pinterest app, if it is installed. </li> <li>Square, which was part of Apple’s onstage demo, said it will let users send peer-to-peer payments via Square Cash either using Siri or within an iMessage conversation.</li> <li>Lyft, another company featured prominently onstage on Monday, is working to make it easy to book a ride from both Siri and Apple Maps</li> </ul>
<p id="1Eh9CL">"Our work with iOS 10 makes booking a Lyft simpler and more convenient, whether you're asking Siri from across the room or tapping from within Maps," Lyft CTO Chris Lambert told <strong>Recode</strong>. "It's been great working with Apple's teams on these projects — the APIs are pretty open and flexible, allowing us to focus on the features our passengers want most, like easier ways to request a ride, richer notifications that allow you to coordinate with your driver, and live maps accessible from the lock screen."</p>
<ul><li id="bbg2ds">500px CEO Andy Yang said he is excited about the ability to use Siri to search for photos. "Combined with the facial and image detection, this could be very cool," he said. </li></ul>
<p id="3tNern">"For iMessage, it's not clear how they are going to open it up," he added.</p>
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<p><small><em>This article originally appeared on Recode.net.</em></small></p>
https://www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11925888/apple-wwdc-2016-developers-siri-imessageIna Fried2016-06-13T16:21:31-04:002016-06-13T16:21:31-04:00Apple's WWDC 2016 onstage lineup was more diverse than it has ever been
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<p>Six men, four women, two people of color.</p> <p id="Il0u44">Like virtually all of Silicon Valley, Apple is both extremely white and extremely male in its upper ranks. And for many years, it has been <a href="http://qz.com/422340/all-the-women-on-stage-at-apple-keynotes-charted/">mostly white men onstage</a> at Apple keynote events.</p>
<p id="HUKggt">Last year, <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-wwdc-2015-diversity-scorecard-two-women-plus-drake-weeknd-1957307">that began to change</a>. And at today’s Worldwide Developers Conference, it changed some more.</p>
<p id="iC9c0h">Of the 10 people onstage at WWDC today, there were six men and four women, including one African-American woman. According to <a href="http://www.apple.com/diversity/">2015 figures on Apple’s website</a>, the company has a 70/30 gender split, and is 54 percent white, 18 percent Asian, 11 percent Hispanic and 8 percent black. At last year’s WWDC, there were two women onstage for the event.</p>
<p id="KNRS20">The women onstage were Apple Music’s Bozoma Saint John, Apple Watch software exec Stacey Lysik, software engineering VP Cheryl Thomas and iOS software exec Bethany Bongiorno. Imran Chaudhri, on the Apple design team, was the one nonwhite guy. (Apple iTunes executive Eddy Cue — a regular presenter at Apple events, including today's — is Cuban American.)</p>
<div id="hRQaG3"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p lang="de" dir="ltr">6 men, 4 women, 1 WOC <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWDC?src=hash">#WWDC</a></p>— Hec-thor Matos (@allonsykraken) <a href="https://twitter.com/allonsykraken/status/742428598414413824">June 13, 2016</a> </blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>
<div id="Pvcgts"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Also n.b. there were a half-dozen women on stage doing Apple’s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWDC?src=hash">#WWDC</a> Keynote. <br>Demographics shifting. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tech?src=hash">#tech</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SiliconValleyTalking2U?src=hash">#SiliconValleyTalking2U</a></p>— Allston Tollcross (@GandaTollcross) <a href="https://twitter.com/GandaTollcross/status/742432901107744772">June 13, 2016</a> </blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>
<p id="EwHA8a">Saint John, who was both very funny and charismatic, was a particularly big hit among people watching the event. For example, <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/bozoma-st-john-is-the-coolest-person-to-go-onstage-at-an-app?utm_term=.sbj7DD0Z8#.ndW677gGv">BuzzFeed says</a> that "Bozoma St. John Is The Coolest Person To Go Onstage At An Apple Event Ever." And The Verge (our Vox Media sister site) <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/13/11924114/apple-bozoma-saint-john-diversity-wwdc-2016">called her a "hero."</a></p>
<div id="U6xIjN"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWDC2016?src=hash">#WWDC2016</a> does not deserve bozoma</p>— Ellen Cushing (@elcush) <a href="https://twitter.com/elcush/status/742420739584753664">June 13, 2016</a> </blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>
<div id="aSpO6y"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr">The room couldn't match Bozoma's glory lbr...she was super lit though <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wwdc?src=hash">#wwdc</a> <a href="https://t.co/PWUeeIiMRu">https://t.co/PWUeeIiMRu</a></p>— Miyanda Nehwati (@jacarandachick) <a href="https://twitter.com/jacarandachick/status/742425305374134272">June 13, 2016</a> </blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>
<div id="kF8g0S"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr">I am in love with Bozoma Saint John, please have her do every WWDC Keynote</p>— Linda Dong (@lindadong) <a href="https://twitter.com/lindadong/status/742421382441508864">June 13, 2016</a> </blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div>
<p><em>Update: This post has been updated to note that Apple executive Eddy Cue is Cuban American.</em></p>
<p><small><em>This article originally appeared on Recode.net.</em></small></p>
https://www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11924110/apple-wwdc-2016-diversity-onstageNoah Kulwin2016-06-13T15:36:34-04:002016-06-13T15:36:34-04:00Watch some of Apple’s biggest announcements from WWDC
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<p>Get your video fix here.</p> <p id="TfFEoi"><a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/6/13/11917002/apple-keynote-stream-2016-live">Apple is expected to make some big announcements today</a> from its annual developers conference. On Apple’s plate today:</p>
<ul id="KfSSt9"> <li>Siri, Siri and more Siri. <a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/6/12/11911926/apple-wwdc-siri-keynote-google-alexa">Is her artificial intelligence getting smarter?</a> </li> <li>New Apple Watch software. <a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/4/11/11586028/apple-watch-fluent-survey">Could this be the reason to buy one?</a> </li> <li>An updated Mac operating system. </li> <li>The launch of iOS 10.</li> <li>Apple Pay gets a mobile boost.</li> <li>Emojification is a real thing.</li> </ul>
<p id="X1NAKN">Here are select excerpts from Apple’s keynote address (Update: And <a href="http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2016/">here's the link to the complete event</a>). Get analysis and more coverage on our <a href="https://live.recode.net/wwdc-2016-keynote/">liveblog</a>.</p>
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<p><small><em>This article originally appeared on Recode.net.</em></small></p>
https://www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11922612/watch-some-of-apple-s-biggest-announcements-from-wwdcRecode Staff2016-06-13T14:40:56-04:002016-06-13T14:40:56-04:00Apple is injecting iPhones with more AI to take on Google Photos
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<p>It’ll be a test of its device-only approach.</p> <p id="tosSVQ">Apple is giving its photos feature a big makeover. With that, it’s swinging straight at rival Google — and putting Apple’s artificial intelligence abilities to the test.</p>
<p id="PhwUrt">At its <a href="https://live.recode.net/wwdc-2016-keynote/">developers conference on Monday</a>, Apple unveiled a set of new features to its photo storage service. With its latest iOS version, Apple will automatically tag, organize and assemble stored images using AI tech such as face recognition.</p>
<p id="ld3CYu">Sound familiar? It seems nearly identical to Google Photos, the automated service the search giant unveiled a year ago.</p>
<p id="mrlIXx">One key difference, though, is where each company pulls data. Google combs visual data from the cloud; Apple said it will tap into data from the device, which it deems a more privacy-friendly approach.</p>
<p id="vtxFMy">Apple didn’t say this onstage, but this may be a disadvantage. The company has invested less in AI than other tech giants. And Google’s approach gives it a wider data purview that can improve its AI and, thereby, the automated features of its photos service.</p>
<p id="Yfv1Nq">But Apple SVP Craig Federighi claimed that Apple has enough data at its fingertips to figure this out, noting that Apple uses 11 billion computations per photo.</p>
<p id="vrfyd4">Last month, <a href="https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/google-photos-one-year-200-million.html">Google said</a> it had over 200 million monthly users for Photos, but it didn’t share how many are on iOS. Even if Apple’s AI features aren’t as mind-blowing, the company could steal some Photos users from Google simply by being the default on iPhones. It's something that might put some people in Mountain View on edge.</p>
<p id="urWmxD">"With this, you can do really powerful searching on your device," Federighi said onstage.</p>
<p><small><em>This article originally appeared on Recode.net.</em></small></p>
https://www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11923730/apple-ai-google-photosMark Bergen