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Inside Scoop - Highlights from WWDC's keynote

2014-06-02
hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet's Cara's you boy joined by senior rider Shara Tipton hey Shara at WWDC 2014 keynote just edit char has emerged sure I did it live up to all of your expectations so this would be a software heavy announcement day this was definitely software you know we didn't expect any hardware that was definitely the case nothing new here let's talk about laptops first OS now called yosemite yosemite yes tell us about some of the changes that will see ya um you know there's a lot more like transparency you know with with bars with you know search search to try to make it you know a little more seamless type a few characters in like Yosemite you can get news feed information from Wikipedia and even maps also a lot of features that sink well with mobile devices so that's a really big change of it for example you can now make phone calls through your laptop yeah yeah you've done all I can you have to have a phone Wow hey it's Craig federighi here hey doing it is dre hey hey a doctor you're on speakerphone with via my mac with over 6000 amazing developers here at WWDC and what about iOS updates yeah I OS 8 you know a lot of things for sharing you want to pick up where you left off on your Mac on your iPad your iPad is prompting you right in the lower left of the screen just swipe up and you can pick up working on what you're working on your Mac right on your iPad another really interesting feature is what they did with like group messaging you can now name your threads you can add or remove people from a conversation underway if you've ever been on one of those noisy threads that just keeps buzzing in your pocket well you can do not disturb on a per thread level and you can choose when to leave the thread also really interesting feature with with group messages as well where you can send like a quick like voice message you know quick quick snippet and same with video all I have to do is tap the play button here the message impressive jaws you've totally mastered in the dark face selfie but basically it's kind of more like the snapchat type of feature where they disappear immediately another feature that a lot of families might appreciate is the whole sharing planet Apple announced tell us about that yes so you know typically a lot of families will end up sharing one itunes account Apple is making it easier so you can have up to six people in a family where you're sharing the same accounts well now with family sharing you can get it not just your purchases but the purchases of all the members of your family and for kids when they buy something the parents immediately get an alert saying your child is trying to buy this a lot of people anticipated that there would be some sort of roundup for all of your health monitors and data described that yeah I mean basically you know everybody's making a big push with health care but there's not really a place to gather all of that Apple's trying to kind of have this hub for everything patient takes let's say a blood pressure reading health kit automatically notifies their app and their app is automatically able to check whether that reading is within that patients personalized healthcare parameters thresholds and if not it can contact the hospital proactively notify a doctor and kind of in that same vein is a sort of gathering every information about your home too right yeah so right now you know your nest smoke detector may not talk to your Samsung washing machine or you have to have different apps or different devices to control these but apples trying to find a way to get these to all you know come together in one location and control it from there in addition to being able to control individual devices in your home with home Kate you can group devices and changes into scenes and then with Siri integration you can say something like get ready for bed and be sure that your garage door is closed your door is locked the thermostat is lowered and your lights are dimmed take the big surprise from this was the new programming language which is very very exciting for the developers you know like they went crazy when they announced that but for the rest of us you know just you know looking at Apple as consumers you know that really isn't quite as exciting for us so obviously no hardware what's announced here today when do you think it will be announced they said iOS and the new mac operating system will be this fall so that's when we'll see the new devices they always land launch iOS with you know the next generation of their phone great thank you so much char took in senior writer i'm cara tsuboi thanks for watching the inside scoop
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