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Live Blog of Apple's 2016 WWDC Keynote

Posted June 13, 2016 at 3:45pm by iClarified · 23816 views

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That's it everyone! Please follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, Google , or RSS for more in depth details on the all the announcements made today.


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I'd like to thank everyone at Apple. All the teams that worked so hard to make this day happen. Thank you very much and have a fantastic week!


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Tim Cook: What a great morning. Great updates to all of the platforms.


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New video about what first inspired some great developers to start coding.


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Swift Playgrounds will be free.


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Tim Cook is back on stage. Swift Playgrounds will be released with developer preview today. Will be in App Store this fall.


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Still demoing Swift Playgrounds app.


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The app features lessons and challenges.


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Cheryl Thomas is up to demo Swift Playgrounds.


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It will revolutionize how people learn to code. "We believe it is the absolute best way to teach everyone to code."


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Today we're introducing a new app for iPad. Swift Playgrounds.


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Cook is touting Swift.


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"I couldn't be more proud or more excited about the incredible advancements across all our platforms."


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Tim Cook is back on stage.


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A public beta will be available in July. iOS 10 will launch this fall as a free upgrade.


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The Developer Preview of iOS 10 will be available today.


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Now showing video ad for iOS 10.


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Apple says it has been working to deploy differential privacy on scale to keep user data private.


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Additional iOS 10 features: Live Photos editing, Split View in Safari on iPad.


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Mac and Apple Watch can receive this interactive content.


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Craig racks up $43k bill


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Group ordering food through Curry Up Now.


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Demoing iMessage apps.


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Developers can create things like stickers, payments, and more.


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App Store for Messages


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Apple is opening open Messages to developers with iMessage apps!


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Demoing full screen effects on Messages.


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Tap backs are sent by double tapping a message.


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Now demoing messages


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Digital Touch support. Full screen effects as well.


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Tap back, Handwritten messages supported.


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Invisible ink effect requires you slide your finger across the bubble to reveal.


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New bubble effects.


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Emoji predictions as you type. Apple will also highlight emojifiable words in your message and you can tap to replace the words with emoji.


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Emoji are three times bigger.


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Linked video plays inline.


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Number 10: Messages. Most frequently used app on iOS.


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You can now receive calls from work phone number on iPhone. Collaboration with Cisco.


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iOS 10 has VoIP API which will deliver nicer incoming call alerts integrating into lock screen, favorites, recents, etc.


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New extension API to possibly identify phone spam.


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You can now get voicemail transcription.


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Number 9: Phone.


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Home app works on iPad and Apple Watch as well.


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Apple TV can serve as secure point for remote access and automation.


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HomeKit is built into Control Center.


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Works with Siri.


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Lets you create scenes and control accessories.


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The next big step for iOS in the home. "We're building on the HomeKit framework with a great new app we call Home."


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Number 8: HomeKit


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Breaking news notifications.


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Introducing subscriptions.


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New design for Apple News.


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Number 7: Apple News. Over 200 publications.


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you can also listen to genre based stations.


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Radio tab lets you listen to Beats 1


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Browse tab offers New Music, Curated Playlists, Top Charts, Genres sections.


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Daily curated playlists.


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For You tab is used for discovery.


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First tab is the Library. Easier to navigate. Huge font sizes.


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Demoing Apple Music.


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Greater clarity and simplicity. Beautiful new design language.


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Today we've got an all new Apple Music redesigned from the ground up.


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Over 15 million paid subscribers to Apple Music.


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Number 6: Music.


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or Book a ride.


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For example, you can now make a reservation right from Maps.


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We are opening Maps up to developers. Map extensions enable all new capabilities.


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Turn by turn for instrument cluster in your car.


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New Maps will be available on CarPlay. Will automatically offer alternate routes if traffic is bad.


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You can also search along route.


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Dynamic view will automatically zoom in and zoom out to make it easier to navigate. You can also pan to zoom ahead.


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Slide across bottom to narrow restaurants done by type.


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Maps is now Proactive. It also gives you convenient ways to filter on places you want to go.


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All new design for Maps. Easy to access controls and details on locations.


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Number 5: Maps.


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Eddy Cue is back.


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Mac gets facial recognition, screen and object recognition, ability to browse memories as well.


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Edited together with the right mood and music. Slider lets you change length and another lets you edit mood.


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Movie at the top is a preassembled highlight reel of video and photos.


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There's a movie up at the top. Beautiful layout of photos highlight special photos. People and map of location. Related memories at bottom.


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New tab in Photos app called Memories.


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Now we're using advanced AI to analyze across your library to cluster together photos and relate them based on location, people, and scenes. Grouping identifies trips, dates, people, and topics. Pulled together into intuitive user interface.


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Object and scene recognition done as well. 11 billion computations done per photo.


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Number 4: Photos. Facial recognition is coming to the iPhone. Done locally.


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Intelligent suggestions, current location, contact information, intelligent scheduling, calendar availability, recent addresses, lookup, multilingual typing.


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Now deep learning determines deeper context.


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Number 3: QuickType. We're bringing Siri intelligence to the keyboard.


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API enables Slack, WhatsApp, and WeChat support for messaging. Uber, Lift, and Didi support for transportation.


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Siri can now be used to message using other apps.


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Number 2: Siri. Serves over 2 billion requests a week. Now in iOS 10 Siri can do so much more. We are opening up Siri to developers.


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3D Touch on icons bring up widgets for apps.


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3D Touch on Mail icon shows who missed emails are from.


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Swipe from left to access widgets.


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Swipe from the right to access camera from lock screen.


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Control center redesigned. You can also swipe over for new Music control area.


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Notification center. Clear all notifications with 3D Touch.


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3D Touch into messages right from lock screen. You can stay in conversations and even receive images without leaving lock screen.


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Lock screen notifications no longer darken wallpaper.


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See what's on lock screen without touching button. Just raise the device.


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Number one is user experience. Redesigned Lock screen, Rich notifications, Quick interaction with apps, Expanded 3D Touch.


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A huge release for developers. Biggest iOS release ever for users. 10 big new features.


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Announcing iOS 10!


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Sierra preview will be available today to developers. Public preview in July. Launching in the fall.


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Now demoing buy with Apple Pay on the web.


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Picture in Picture works with web video.


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Craig is demoing sending a message from Mac using Siri.


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Demos copy and paste from iPad to Mac.


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Siri results can be pinned into Notification Center.


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Queries can be refined with follow up instructions.


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Siri can do sophisticated queries for files.


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New dock icon for Siri. It appears in the top right corner of the display.


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Siri is coming to the Mac.


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Improved tabs across macOS. Picture in Picture support!


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Apple Pay is coming to Switzerland, France, and Hong Kong.


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You'll use Touch ID on the iPhone to authenticate web payments.


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Apple Pay is coming to the web!


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250GB system with 20GB free gained 130GB of additional free space after optimization.


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Automatically clears temporary files.


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Optimize storage. Makes room for your new files by keeping your older ones in the cloud.


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iCloud Drive. Makes desktop available between Macs and on iPhone.


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Copy and paste works between Mac and iPhone.


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New Universal Clipboard feature.


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Apple Watch used to securely authenticate login to Mac.


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New Auto Unlock feature.


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This year's name is macOS Sierra.


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Apple is switching the name of its desktop operating system to macOS.


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Craig is up to talk about OS X.


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Developer Preview launches today. Customers will get it this fall.


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New dark mode.


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New Single sign-on feature lets you sign in once on your Apple TV and give you access to all our network's apps without needing to authenticate individual apps.


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Also works on iPad.


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New Live TuneIn feature lets you ask Siri to watch live TV channels.


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Siri searches over 650,000 movies and TV shows and now you can use it to search YouTube!


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You can now search movies by topics using Siri.


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Touch for navigation, accelerometer and gyroscope can be used to play games.


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New version of the Apple TV remote app is coming.


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New apps: Sling today, Fox Sports Go this summer, Molotov exclusive next month, NBA2K, Minecraft Story Mode, Sketch Party, and more.


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1300 video channels. 6000 native apps in 7 months.


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Now Eddy Cue is up to talk about tvOS.


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Will arrive to all watch users this fall.


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watchOS 3 Preview will be released today.


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watchOS 3 is a giant step forward for developers. New APIs. Apple Pay support. Background workout. Real-time heart rate. Gyroscope access. SpriteKit. Crown


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You get a summary when the session is over with your heart rate.


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Launching new app for Health called Breathe. Guides you through breathing exercises that take one to five minutes.


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Apple is also thinking about wheelchair users and has optimized Activity to work better for those users.




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You can also send smack talk.


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You can tap on anyone in your activity list and see things like their daily activities and step counts.


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With watchOS 3, Apple is introducing activity sharing. You can see your family and friend's activity rings.


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Jay Blahnik is up to talk about fitness features.


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SOS also works when traveling internationally.


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New SOS feature on the watch. Press and hold the side button. It will countdown to let you know its about to call 911. It will also notify your loved ones and then show your Medical I.D.


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Scribble reply feature works in English and Chinese.


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watchOS 3 features are being demoed.


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You can also add more complications to watch faces.


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You can now swipe to switch between watch faces.


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New Minny watch face.


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Messages on watchOS 3 gets new Scribble reply option. You can draw the letters for your message on the screen.


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watchOS 3 gets Control Center accessed by swiping up from the bottom of the screen.


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watchOS 3 gets a Dock accessed by pushing the button under the digital crown.


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watchOS 3:
Keep favorite apps in memory, background updates, refreshed information, instant launch.


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Kevin is up to talk about watchOS.


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We are going to talk to you about 4 Apple platforms.


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Over 2,000,000 apps on the App Store. Downloads have passed 130,000,000,000.


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We have over 100 attendees at the conference this year that are under 18 years of age. The youngest is only 9. I meant her yesterday and she is going to make one heck of a great developer.


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We have people here from over 74 countries. Over 70% of the attendees at the conference this year are attending the conference for the very first time. We've awarded 350 scholarships this year.


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"We celebrate our diversity."

"Please rise and join us in a moment of silence to honor the victims and the people who loved them."


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Cook is offering his sympathies to those affected by Orlando, Florida shooting.


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Cook is on stage!


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