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we're here at WWDC 2018 in San Jose I'm Scott Stein I'm sure and we have been here for two hours plus we've gotten to try a our demos we've learned a lot we have a lot of thoughts let's go with our top ten takeaways from the show it was all about software no hardware whatsoever we saw a lot of updates to iOS all all of Apple's various operating systems got updates to a our kid there was a lot of AR discussion a particularly multiplayer something a Google had discussed at i/o here and the idea is then anyone maybe up the thousands of people could start playing in the cloud or locally and that's a pretty big development plus there's a common platform file type that's that's going to be developed with Pixar that could open up air in all sorts of places apples made new software to help us kind of put our devices down instead of checking them all the time this will let parents monitor what their kids are doing you could set up alerts to tell yourself hey you've been using Facebook too long basically to kind of help us combat this phone addiction that we all seem to have there were a lot of watch OS updates but not necessarily the ones that I was looking for particularly no watchface store and no sleep tracking although there is a walkie-talkie mode which seems pretty useful and there are some new fitness modes and there was a new pride watch face and there's a lot of little incremental things but but for Apple watch it was kind of a little bit of a quieter note one of the really big announcements is they reiterated again iOS and Mac OS is not merging they're gonna stay separate but starting next year iOS apps so iPhone iPad apps will be able to run on Macs we already saw that with a few apps that are going to be coming later this year the news app stocks you know various things that they've already made of their own that were just on your phone just on your iPad now you can get it on your computer there's a series shirt cuts which is seems to be apples way of trying to have Siri do more things fast for apps so basically apps have to hook into this and you have to knit that in and then once you have a shortcut you could use these shortcuts app to bundle a bunch of those and be able to create all sorts of other ways you could access stuff with Siri and create your own little vocal cues so a lot of the features this year were more about performance more about kind of like little nitpicky things as opposed to huge massive changes this is good news for people who have old iPhones Apple spent a lot of time trying to make sure that your iPhone 5s or whatever older device you have is still going to be able to work really well with iOS 12 and you know work even better than it did with iOS 11 Apple TV you know the big announcement maybe was dolby atmos support to set that up with your speakers at home as far as cable boxes they were still promising the idea that it could replace cable boxes but for very few cable providers at this point only one in the US and I think two overseas and there is going to be a zero sign in way of automatically recognizing your broadband and connecting but that again which providers are going to have that you're the one signing also took a while to catch on another thing that you'll see is with an emoji you'll be able to stick out your tongue which apparently is a big deal and you can also make me emojis so it's little little animated heads cartoons emojis of yourself we saw this with Samsung with the new Galaxy S 9 they came out with a are emoji those were really criticized because a lot of people felt it didn't look like them so we'll see what the Apple ones look like and the ones we saw you look more cartoonish but there's a lot more ways to customize them Mac OS did have a bunch of updates even though it seemed like there wasn't necessarily gonna be all that much a few of those Mac OS Mojave is going to have a dark mode which actually sounds like something that would be great to have on iOS but doesn't exist and a way to take all that stuff on your desktop all the clutter and apparently organize it and find some sort of logic to the clutter and and then also that you know the future of support like you say with iOS but and then a couple of key apps that are gonna make their way over there to voice memo new stocks stocks has so then like it's like a news with in stock so stocks and news news and stocks I don't think that's all all of the big stuff Oh face time yeah you'll now be able to chata have groups of up to 32 people in a FaceTime chat at the same time yeah FaceTime was one of the weirdest demos on stage because it was a mix of not just people but also people with um with an emoji heads and and a mix of avatars so suddenly you had like people with realistic looking avatars and people with animated ones and there was they had an emoji or me emoji Tim Cook so it's pretty hallucinatory maybe the future blend of PR and reality where we will not know the difference or something so that was what we saw at Apple's WWDC this year no new devices here lots of software we're gonna see more this fall yeah hopefully a lot of devices we're expecting iPads and Macs and iPhones and watches so stay tuned also the public beta hitting at some point the summer great thanks so much for tuning in thanks