Apple WWDC 2024 LIVE Updates: All the expected announcements, including iOS 18, AI features, and more

Two new features announced just now at WWDC are already earning praise online.

The first, automatically scheduling text messages through Apple’s Messages app, takes a feature that has made it easier to send emails for remote and team work and reimplements it to make life interactions easier as well. staff. Apple’s example was automating a birthday text message, but there are guaranteed to be plenty of ways it will help the average person.

The second, more elaborate innovation allows users to send messages via satellite when they are out of range of traditional mobile phones or wireless Internet networks. The additional connectivity is likely to literally save lives during natural disasters or accidents that occur in remote areas with low connectivity.

In addition to the long-awaited unveiling of the headset’s new operating system, Apple has announced that the incredibly expensive and high-tech virtual reality glasses will launch worldwide this summer.

On June 28, Vision Pro will arrive in Asia and will be released in China, Japan and Singapore.

Then, on July 12, the glasses will arrive in the rest of the West and will be available in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, and Germany.

After an intentionally cute intro about ‘skydiving,’ Apple CEO Tim Cook began with a lengthy preview of his in-house entertainment streamer’s offerings for Apple TV+.

Packed with A-list Hollywood talent, from George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the upcoming film ‘Wolfs,’ to Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in ‘Fly Me to the Moon,’ the tech company appears to be pulling out all the stops and spending a lot to gain an advantage over your competitors.

On the site formerly known as Twitter, Tesla mogul Elon Musk’s X platform, reactions to months of rumors about Apple’s plan to brand its own collaboration with OpenAI as ‘Apple Intelligence’ have sparked everything from a blind support to absolute contempt.

Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals, which makes Basecamp project management software, told followers that “the ‘artificial’ in AI has always felt wrong” and praised Apple’s simple branding exercise as a “great name”.

Others posted memes with the clear intention of criticizing the company for taking an obvious route that seemed more unimaginative than elegant or clever.

As one former Twitter data scientist put it, criticizing the name praise: “You guys are incredibly easy to impress.” He boggles the mind.

Nothing official has been said yet about Apple’s deal with OpenAI to incorporate the Microsoft-owned company’s ChatGPT into its popular iOS voice-based personal assistant, Siri, but here’s what we know today at WWDC 2024.

Apple’s vice president of corporate development, Adrian Perica, has been quietly leading the charge to integrate the two, according to anonymous sources who spoke to the New York Times – with the hope that the end result will be a more conversational and versatile Siri.

However, unlike its rivals, Apple’s core brand has been built around being intuitive and easy to use for the average person, so the company is less likely to take big risks with its AI offering.

“Apple is pretty conservative on everything, so I don’t know if it will ‘surprise’ people,” Carolina Milanesi, president of Creative Strategies, a technology research firm, told the Times.

“But they have to do this because this is how we interact with technology in the future,” he said.

After months of anticipation, the wait is finally almost over for Apple fans, as the tech giant’s annual tech event is about to begin.

Apple says the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which begins today at Apple Park in California, will be an “extraordinary week of technology.”