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later this year we've got you know the best product pipeline that I've that I've seen at Apple in my 25 years at Apple well the best product pipeline you've seen in 25 years it's right Bannen could you tell you I you tell us about them I get to see it tomorrow Oh every year Apple gathers a huge crowd of its developers and walks them through the future the Worldwide Developer Conference has been the place where Apple has launched iPhones redesigned software and shown glimpses of its most exciting and important upcoming products this year it all starts June 2nd and the rumor mill has been churning for months with what we will and won't see in San Francisco let's start with iOS which is a staple of WWDC last year's update was a sweeping change in the look of the platform but I OS 8 will really begin to polish some of the rough edges while introducing a number of key new features the most important one seems to be helpful according to 905 Mac the new app will collect data on information like blood pressure activity heart rate and sleep and will place it into carts that look a lot like the passbook app it'll pull from the phone's many sensors but might also work nicely with a few accessories oh yes of those now what about smart homes what if your phone could unlock your door when you get home turn your lights on and welcome you home with just the right song playing through your living room speakers the Financial Times has said that Apple will unveil home automation software WWDC which would mark a huge step into a new industry for Apple one that Google just got into with its recent acquisition of nest rounding out the iOS 8 rumors are new apps like preview and TextEdit enhancements to Syria including Shazam like song identification and public transportation for Apple Maps finally again not a huge reimagining of the platform just a Polish and a paint job and I don't know an edition or something next let's talk oh s 10.10 called Sarah and yes that is apparently the numbering scheme Apple's going with as 10.9 s follow up the Mac's operating system is apparently getting a big design overhaul one that puts it more in line with iOS 7 s bright and simple looks it'll still work like the OS 10 you already know but will start to feel a lot more like a real companion to iOS it's a logical next step they have an increasing number of apps in common and a similar style would make the two platforms feel even more like one so iOS and OS 10 are basically a given and while Apple's use WWDC in the past to announce major hardware generally speaking we don't expect to see much outside of iterative there that said there are two bigger iPhones said to be on their way for late summer or early fall multiple outlets have reported that Apple is working on iPhone models with a 4.7 inch display and a 5.5 inch display both far bigger than the 4-inch iPhone 5s it's hard to say when they'll appear especially given what are apparently real production problems but it's not impossible that we'll see one of them WWE see then they're wild cards like Apple TV the company has been talking about Apple TV a lot lately and this week Apple's senior vice president Eddy Cue revealed that it's sold 20 million set-top boxes so far it's been more than a hobby for a while now and if Apple did want to set up something like a new app ecosystem as it gets ready to build a television its annual developer conference is just the place to do it and it's not just about TVs of course the really big Apple rumor of late has been the so called eyewash Apple has yet to enter the wearable field which is quickly becoming crowded by some of its biggest competitors including Samsung and Google and even pebble and the phrase new product categories keeps being thrown around by Tim Cook and other Apple executives something is coming and soon but watches are a fashion product so maybe Apple has been waiting to solicit expertise from Beats the style focused audio company that Apple just bought for three billion dollars we're not expecting to hear anything from them next week but we might see newly minted Apple executives dr. Dre and Jimmy IV as for Dre is long long long in production album detox well some things not even Apple can make happen