Everything Announced At WWDC17

iOS 11:
The iOS 11 will be launched later this year approximately at the same time as the new iPhone. With 375 million devices using Siri every month, the Apple assistant will get a major upgrade. This next update will give Siri deep learning capabilities such as contextual learning and predictive suggestions. The camera app will also be upgraded and will save pictures with a compression technique that uses less space on the device. Third party apps will now be able to access Apple Music directly and save discovered songs to your library automatically.

Apple HomePod:

Apple announced its own competitor to Amazon Echo and Google Home! In a bid to shake things up, Apple’s voice-enabled smart speaker HomePod was launched at the annual developer’s conference.
The HomePod can do pretty much everything that Google Home and Amazon Echo offers, but with a better sound quality. Apple’s worldwide head of marketing, Phil Schiller explained how the speaker can analyze the song it’s playing, detect the surfaces around it and adjust the output accordingly.

MacBook Pro:

While the basic design of the MacBook Pro remains untouched, all MacBook models will receive processor upgrades. The high end 15 inch MacBook Pro will now be available with seventh generation Core i7 processors that range from 2.8 GHz quad core to 3.1 GHz quad-core variants. The laptops will also have the faster storage capacity that will mean faster overall performance than the previous generations. The 13 inch MacBook Pro will also get a revamp with dual core i5 processors. The other MacBooks will also have minor processor upgrades to keep up with the other products.

iMac:

The new iMac will be packed with seventh gen Intel Core i7 and i5 Kaby Lake chips processors, Radeon Pro 500 series graphics, 5 k and 4 k display with 8 GB and 4 GB dedicated VRAM respectively with up to 4.2 GHz processing speed. The new updates focus on delivering faster results, especially when using processor-intensive applications like the Final Cut Pro. Apple has also upgraded the storage with the Fusion Drive with a fast flash storage for frequently used apps and files and a high capacity hard drive for everything else. The new iMac boasts of brighter retina display and the ability to reproduce as many as 1 Billion colors.

macOS High Sierra:
The macOS will be launched later this year and introduce new core technologies such as a new file system and better VR support. The new file system will enable the Macs to move to a proper modern file system that will ease changing and inspecting large files.

Virtual Reality:
Metal VR will make its debut on iMac. Metal will have the ability to edit 360° videos in apps like Final Cut Pro and create cutting-edge 3D VR content and HTC Vive is the headset of choice.

iPad Pro:
Apple released a new 10.5 inch iPad Pro that is largely similar to its 9.7 inch iPad. These tablets will be powered by the A10X Fusion chips and 12 core graphics with True Tone display features to alter the color and brightness according to the ambient light temperature. They will now also have a 64 GB storage option which can be increased to 512GB.

These were the major announcements in the keynote speech along with the upgrades to Apple Tv and Apple Watch OS4.

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