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name one book guy ISM can be HD here and today was Apple's WWDC 2017 and there was a lot of stuff announced actually so those of you don't want to sit through a video of the entire three-hour keynote that we sat through this video is for you so there were actually six main announcements at WWDC this is a top five so that means one of them didn't make a list so TV OS hope you don't mind didn't make the top five but you know it's better now it's refreshed it's got a new UI it now supports Amazon Prime video but yes about it so it didn't make the top five but now I know about alright so the number five announcement is a new watch OS 4 for the Apple watch now I'm not a big SmartWatch person and I don't wear SmartWatch that often but if you do you will notice that there are quite a few little improvements to the Apple watch they added some watch faces so a kaleidoscope watch face which is fun a Toy Story couple of washed faces and also now a Serie watch face which shows a bunch of new information and there's some other minor stuff like being able to send data back and forth between compatible gym equipment and your watch Apple watch is a pretty popular Fitness watch so make sense but all together and all these little minor improvements there wasn't really anything massive that would make someone who wasn't considering it Smart Watch now think about getting an Apple watch it was more of a bunch of improvements that would make someone who already owned one and stopped wearing it try it again maybe stop collecting dust on a shelf in the corner maybe it'll do that for me actually I'll try it so number four is a new version of Mac OS so the current version we have on every Mac the latest version is Mac OS Sierra the latest version now which now has a new name is called Mac OS hi Sierra that's that's it there's no that's there's no joke just that's the new name I guess the reasoning is it's supposed to be an improvement on Sierra like a perfection of all these little new features that make it great so it's hi Sierra I don't know just ignore the name again the idea here is the same it's a refinement it has a bunch of minor improvements things like safari now auto blocks those annoying autoplay video ads and I also have intelligent ad tracking prevention to help you stop seeing the same ads over and over all over the web it also now has a couple new filters and the Photos app does a split view in the mail app you know little things like that the nerd in mail of the announcement of h.265 support which is a new yo codec which will now also be hardware accelerated and built into Final Cut Pro let's go and apples not gotten serious about supporting VR and external GPUs so for VR they're now supporting the unity and unreal engines natively in Mac OS and for external GPUs are now focused on harnessing the power of Thunderbolt 3 and making that a more viable solution for a lot of people so there's now actually a developer kit with a reference box external GPU enclosure with a Radeon pro graphics card inside that you can buy from Apple I kind of want to get either way that's Mac OS hi Sierra that's the real name public beta coming in late June and then free upgrade for all Mac users coming in the fall now number three home pod now this was the announcement that was probably the most hyped coming into this event we knew like a tiny bit of what might be shown but there's a whole lot more that just got revealed and it was a bit of a surprise so the home pod is this this balloon size like toaster small coaster size high 5 speaker that also has some assistant features built in on top I know I personally don't think home pod is that good of an idea for a name I would've gone with something probably more like Apple home or Siri home or Siri speakers or whatever something like that but you know iPod branding is so strong and it is a speaker first so they went with home pod so this thing has seven tweeters these horns all the way around the circumference around the base so omnidirectional audio there and then a four inch woofer firing upwards and Apple spent a lot of time hyping and talking about how good this thing is going to sound it is definitely a premium hi-fi speaker first it's gonna have some smart features I can detect wherever you put it if it's near a wall it will know to bounce certain sounds off of that wall and spread out certain other sounds away from the wall it's supposed to be an extremely smart speaker and they spend a lot of time with that on stage now you couldn't really listen to it that well in the demo area but I did get to listen to one in a quiet area and I actually compared it to an Amazon Alexa and a sono speaker I can tell you for sure it sounded a lot better than the Amazon Alexa speaker and it sounded decently better than the Sonos - it has a lot of bass obviously the smaller speakers are lacking and plenty of highs to but what struck me was the mids were actually really full and rounded and legible where they weren't in the Sonos obviously the Alexa was not forget at all so I got to get one at home obviously and listen to it with my own music and my own sounds and figure out if it's worth it in that category but assuming the Siri functionality on top of it actually works well where you know you can use voice controls to listen to music and ask it questions about the music and ask it for the weather and for calendar appointments and hopefully it's gotten better since that comparison I did with it versus Google now assuming all that stuff is true then it looks like it'll be a pretty decent product it's supposed to come out for $349 in December so it's got some time before that comes out and before it's actually a finalized product but that gives it time to get good and we'll be able to see if it's actually worth that price three and forty nine bucks sounds like a lot but when compared to other high-end speakers that's right in line and hopefully it does more thing I hopefully also by December that gives us time to know what we can do with it like right now they advertise it as just like a Siri and Apple music box but what if I don't use Siri up what if I use Google and and Google play music or Spotify or SoundCloud or any of those things what work is just a Bluetooth speaker I don't know that's to be seen all right so number two is iOS 11 and it's got a lot a lot of little feature is added to it and then a surprisingly big visual refresh they didn't even talk about it that much but it's a lot flatter and more colorful now but it's clean it's clean so the new features include things like iMessage in iCloud so now when you switch between phones it'll also bring all your eye messages across you can Apple pay between people so now if you want to pay someone who also has an iPhone you can use Apple pay inside iMessage to pay them so that kind of makes it tough on things like then though and PayPal is this catches on there's h.265 video support again and there's also now at high efficiency image format which supposedly take a lot less space on your phone with all the photos you take and there's no image processing to make better quality photos from the camera and Siri got a new voice it's a little bit smoother and there's also a male version to use the programs for the next two days sunny sunny sunny I love the scenery especially in China machine learning and the control center is redesigned now this definitely looked a little bit odd to me at first and I didn't like it right off the bat but it's definitely going to take some getting used to I think this is one of the things we're going to have to get used to because iOS Control Center right now on the iPhone is a little bit finicky already so it looks to be an improvement to that even if it's not pretty the response to 3d touch it's now no longer paginate it so all your controls are your fingertips and it appears to have more control than you did before so hopefully this is something that I can get used to even though it's not the prettiest thing there's also some improvements to other first party apps like Apple photos and to Apple maps it's got things like Lane Guidance now which is long overdue but why I really like iOS 11 and why it's so high on my list at number two is because of what it did for iPad for the long time the biggest weakness of iPads for me was for how much they claimed to be able to replace the PC and be a primary machine for so many people they could never really do even some of the most basic things that pcs could do at least in the multitasking and productivity side of things they were severely lacking but I look 11 on the iPad now has for example a full-on dock like the Mac so a bunch of apps that you can store down there you have not only just the split-screen multitasking but you can copy and paste things between them you now have a full files app so you have access to file system on the iPad there's new scanning feature in the Notes app or if you take notes with the Apple pencil it will actually be able to scan that as text and recognize all your handwriting and then be able to archive and search through that with spotlight which is amazing and Craig on stage went through all this stuff and even more insanely fast I could barely keep up I was scribbling it all down but bottom line was it actually made me reconsider how I think about the iPad as possibly really being a first computer or a primary device for a larger number of people that's obviously going to be its own full deep dive I have to get my hands on the new iPad and that's definitely going to be its own separate video plus possibly the most underrated announcement from all of today's stuff and no one seems to be talking about it as much as they should is that the new iPads the new iPad pro came out you know ten and a half inch display slightly slimmer bezels but it has a display that refreshes at 120 Hertz 60 frames per second constant every animation and you notice it if I carefully dropped it onstage like oh it will dynamically switch between refresh rates you know lower pressure rates for slower tasks like reading but also high refresh rates and you normally go up to 60 Hertz on most displays but this will be 120 Hertz not just for gaming but for like all the swiping through the UI and swiping through pages and typing and drawing with the Apple pencil it's extremely responsive it's like butter it's like water like pulling your hand across the UI it's hard for me to show because this is all thirty frames per second video but trust me when I say it's very different and people should be pretty excited about that so that takes it to number one the highest profile new announcement from today's WWDC which is new Macs and the new iMac press so there were Hardware refreshes announced throughout all of Apple's lineup you got new MacBooks new MacBook Pros new iMacs there's now also a baseline $13.99 4k iMac and Nu baseline $13.99 macbook pro 13 inch and all beyond max now have brighter displays 500 nits standard which is great now has fusion drives by default which is math but they also now have the SSD option is faster and can go up to 2 terabytes so I highly recommend that and they're all running KB Lake Intel chips on the latest gen AMD Radeon pro graphics cards faster RAM more RAM and they added 2 USB type-c Thunderbolt 3 ports on the back of the new iMacs it's about time so now it's looking like a real nice solid 2017 refresh and that out of nowhere out of literally nowhere we got out of left field this iMac pro this all space grey matte black workstation grade beast of an iMac that I mean out of nowhere up to 18 cores on the CPU side workstation grade Zeon's AMD Vega GPUs up to 128 gigs of ram and then up to a 4 terabyte SSD and tend to give it Ethernet on the back and 4 USB type-c Thunderbolt 3 ports where did this come from it even comes with a brand-new exclusive Space Gray Apple wireless keyboard with the number pad a Space Gray trackpad and a dark grey Magic Mouse all for this workhorse of an iMac with a 5k display so I got to look at it I got to admire it I got to even touch it obviously this thing has my attention that even kept the SD card slot on the back which is great it's looking like a pretty robust suite of i/o for a pro user and the numbers in this section making it look pretty damn tempting for a pro user for someone who uses Final Cut Pro this seems like a machine that would crush final cut prep but the more I think about it it actually seems like this is a really elaborate trap set by like Johnny eyes preying on content creators who Mac froze are on their last breath this thing is going to be starting at $5,000 in December so it's not like you can get one right now you actually have to wait a little time or pre-order and get one in a couple months but if you think about it who on earth is in the market for a super high-end all-in-one with workstation grade parts that's totally not upgradeable what is a total beast you know you know if you want to think of two completely different things you can't upgrade the RAM CPU drive GPU any of the things in this computer but it's going to be an absolute monster people who are buying multi-thousand dollar workstation grade computers like this don't buy IMAX unless you paint them space grey I don't know maybe I'm not learning my lessons from the 2013 trashcan Mac Pro but I really want an iMac Pro this thing looks absolutely sick I don't have people from the photos I've posted and reactions on Twitter have also been really into it too but either way let me know what you think are you into this I'm mic Pro or any of the other announcements from WWDC 2017 I'm certainly interested to hear your thoughts down on the comments section below right below that like button we're all talking about it all day and that's where we're getting out down there so that's pretty much it thank you for watching this recap video 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