

The comparisons with Amazon Echo and Google Home will no doubt flood the web, but as TMO’s Dave Hamilton noted, it may be more appropriate to compare the Siri Speaker to Sonos. Siri Speaker It’s sounding pretty certain that we’ll see the rumored Siri Speaker-a Siri-based voice assistant appliance with an impressive sound system-making an appearance on Monday. Anything is possible, but that’s a lot of laptops to show off considering everything else we may see. If so, that means Apple’s entire laptop lineup is getting a makeover. There are also reports saying the MacBook and MacBook Air will get updates.
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MacBooks How about a Kaby Lake processor Touch Bar MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM? Rumors say it’s a possibility even though Apple’s pro-level laptop was refreshed nine months ago. It’s about time for a new model to come out. The big screen iPad first shipped in November 2015 and hasn’t been updated since. If so, the 12.9-inch model should get a refresh, too. WWDC Hardwareġ0.5-inch iPad Pro Rumors say we’ll see a 10.5-inch iPad Pro at the WWDC keynote. If we’re really lucky we’ll get improvements to the overall tvOS interface that makes finding and playing content easier, too.
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TvOS 11 Apple is rolling out original shows to help draw in new Apple Music subscribers, so we can expect changes to the Apple TV interface that plays into that. This refresh may also set up the framework for the rumored smart watch bands that’ll add new functionality to our watches. WatchOS 4 Apple is all about health and fitness, so that’s where we’ll likely see changes for the Apple Watch operating system. AI improvements for Siri would be welcome, too, along with FaceTime group calls. I’m also hoping Apple ditches the giant Night Shift button in Control Center and lets us see which WiFi network we’re connected to-or even switch networks-from there.


IOS 11 It’s no secret Apple has been working on augmented reality, so that may play a role in Monday’s announcements. With the APFS file system already running on iOS that may be more visible in this fall’s macOS release, although this probably won’t be the year Apple makes it the primary format for our boot drives. MacOS 10.13 Word on what Apple may show off for macOS 10.13 is pretty scarce, so I’m expecting we’ll see mostly under the hood refinements and improvements.
