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every year more than 6000 developers flocked to San Francisco for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference which gives them their first look at all of the new features Apple is bringing to its increasing number of operating systems iOS for mobile devices OS 10 for the desktop and now watch OS welcome to WWDC 2015 this developer conference continues to be the epicenter of change for not only Apple but the industry first big thing Apple announced today I OS 10 El Capitan the next version of their desktop operating system this is a very incremental release they emphasized improved graphics performance there are some new ways to manage windows a little bit more easily and there's gonna be various new gestures for managing your mail things like that some people are gonna look at this and say it's kind of boring but me personally I'm ok with the operating system taking a year to just get really stable get a little bit faster work on the graphics performance and not worry about introducing some major new feature so El Capitan is gonna roll out as a free upgrade in the fall it's not gonna change your world but it is gonna make things just a little bit nicer iOS 9 another fairly incremental release for Apple although it does come with a handful of big new features one of them is called proactive a new kind of Siri that will attempt to anticipate your needs without you having to do anything so swipe to the right and you'll see people you often talk with you'll see apps that you often use and it will try to kind of help you get where you're going without you having to do as much as you used to before another big feature in iOS 9 that's interesting if you have an iPad you can now do split screens so you could say work on a document in most of the screen and then have Twitter running on the right-hand side or you could have you know a web browser open with a picture and picture video of something that you're watching on Netflix if you have an iPad I have a feeling this is something you're going to be using a lot Apple also showed off news newsreader that will remind you a lot of Flipboard you tell it your interests and the publications you like and it will organize all of those together in one place still a lot of questions about this as we're heading outside the event is apples splitting revenue with publishers how exactly is that going to work I don't know generally speaking I'm pretty down on these kinds of apps but Apple says they've found a way to make reading beautiful on iPad and iPhones and that's gonna be coming out shortly the third thing Apple talked about today was watch OS which is of course the operating system for the Apple watch which just came out and the big news here is that starting soon developers are going to be able to write apps natively for the watch whereas before you used to have to route everything through an iPhone so now developers can build brand-new experiences just for the watch and you should start seeing those roll into the App Store shortly the last big thing Apple talked about today Apple music its long-awaited Spotify competitor you pay Apple ten bucks a month you can stream anything you want on demand without any ads it also comes with a global radio station called beats one that streams 24/7 and a service called connect that will contain extras from your favorite artists like lyrics or song demos there's a lot in there I want to get my hands on it and play with it it didn't blow me away but it does have a really cool integration with Siri so you can just activate Siri tell it what you want to hear it'll start playing immediately the big theme of today was incremental improvement we saw lots of things that are getting a little bit better some people are gonna say that's boring I actually think it's great this is how software improves over time at the end of the day I saw a lot of stuff that I can't wait to get my hands on