Show notes
Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Alex Cranz, and Chris Welch discuss all the announcements from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that took place this week.
All the links:
- COVID-19 hospitalization rates in adolescents went up during March and April
- Where did the COVID microchip conspiracy theory come from anyway?
- The pandemic might cut down e-waste but widen the digital divide
- Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements
- Apple previews iOS 15 at WWDC 2021
- The best features of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that Apple didn’t announce onstage
- Apple’s Siri will finally work without an internet connection with on-device speech recognition
- Watch Apple’s Siri blaze through requests with on-device processing
- You’ll soon be able to use your iPhone as ID at the airport
- Apple adds welcome privacy features to Mail, Safari
- Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage
- With iCloud Plus, Apple’s privacy promise is paired with an upsell
- Apple’s privacy-focused Private Relay feature isn’t coming to China
- Apple Music’s spatial audio is sometimes amazing but mostly inconsistent
- macOS and tvOS are getting spatial audio support with the AirPods Pro and Max
- Apple Music begins rolling out lossless streaming and Dolby Atmos spatial audio
- Apple introduces Siri for third-party devices
- macOS Monterey lets you run Shortcuts and share files between Macs and iPads
- Apple may have done the coolest drag and drop demo ever
- How Universal Control on macOS Monterey works
- FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web
- Apple is building video and music sharing into FaceTime
- Apple announces watchOS 8 with new health features
- Apple’s new health features bring new focus to elder care technology
- Apple lets users see family members’ Health data
- Apple announces iPadOS 15 with homescreen and multitasking improvements
- Microsoft announces Xbox TV app and its own xCloud streaming stick
- Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor
- Sony WF-1000XM4 earbuds announced / review
- Google’s first folding Pixel is apparently still on track for a 2021 reveal
- Clubhouse and its clones have an accessibility problem
- Biden revokes Trump bans on TikTok and WeChat
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