Review: WWDC 2016

With the WWDC 2016 week finally coming to an end, I feel now is an appropriate time for me to give my proper review of everything announced this week.

For this post I’m going to break it down into each of the software platforms:

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Initial Impressions: WWDC 2016 Keynote

UPDATE #1: Changes to list of compatible iOS 10 devices.

Apple’s WWDC has just started with the opening keynote, where the company announced:

• macOS Sierra
• iOS 10
• watchOS 3
• tvOS 10
• Swift Playgrounds

In this post with the event having finished not that long ago, here are my impressions of everything announced:

Does Apple need an Amazon Echo/Google Home competitor?

The smart-home is a forever growing aspects of our digital lives.

Amazon was the first to enter the space of an at-home virtual assistant with the Amazon Echo and Google last week introduced at Google I/O there competitor (and acknowledging Amazon for their efforts) called Google Home.

Expectations for Apple’s WWDC 2016

Apple just the other day announced that their annual WWDC conference will be held from June 13-17 in San Francisco, California.

WWDC 2016 Announced

Apple has today announced details on its next WWDC conference.

WWDC stands for the WorldWide Developer’s Conference, of which this will be Apple’s 27th Developer Conference.

Rumour: OS X to become macOS

Apple has been naming it’s desktop operating system as OS X for the past 15 years now.

There have been:

• OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) in Early 2001.
• OS X 10.1 (Puma) in Late 2001.
• OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) in Late 2002.
• OS X 10.3 (Panther) in Late 2003.
• OS X 10.4 (Tiger) in Early 2005.
• OS X 10.5 (Leopard) in Late 2007.
• OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) in Late 2009.
• OS X 10.7 (Lion) in Mid 2010.
• OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) in Mid 2012.
• OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) in Late 2013.
• OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) in Late 2014.
• OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) in Late 2015.

Prior to all of this though, OS X was originally called “Mac OS” and the latest rumour suggests that OS X will be renamed to macOS.

OS X 10.12 Wishlist

OS X 10.12 will be Apple’s next desktop operating system for the Mac desktop and laptop range of products that Apple sells.

It is expected like most previous years to be announced in June 2016 at Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) held at the Moscone West venue in San Francisco, USA.

Out of self interest, I created a list of what features and changes I wanted to see in iOS 10 or very soon after that, and I have now asked myself the same question, as to what I want to see from OS X 10.12?

As it turns out, I’ve made a list of all of the things that in my opinion, need to be added or tweaked in OS X 10.12 or the coming years afterwards.

Since I started writing this blog post initially, my list is now at 202.