Online or face-to-face, it punctuates the tech year like few other conferences. Apple’s WWDC will again take place this year in an “all-virtual format”. As usual, the Cupertino giant will give the La in June. Its developer conference will be held from June 6 to 10.
Obviously, the festivities will be initiated by a pre-recorded keynote, of which the Tim Cook teams now have the secret. This will be an opportunity for Craig Federighi, big boss of the Californian company’s software, and his troops to unveil the new features of iOS and iPadOS, in version 16. In all likelihood, the developer betas should be available immediately, and it will take wait a few weeks to see the public betas open. watchOS and tvOS will also be part of the party, as will macOS.
Developers will be able, as in recent years, to follow conferences and information sessions online. And the youngest among us will be able to take part in the Swift Student Challenge again this year. But Apple could also take the opportunity to give news of its progress in its transition from Intel chips to its Apple Silicon SoCs. This hardware migration relies heavily on substantial software work, from Rosetta 2 to optimizing applications so that they become “Universal”, natively compatible for Intel and Apple Silicon processors.
In the past, Apple has also taken advantage of the WWDC opening keynote to present products, either related to the professional world, or based on a set of technical innovations, such as VR and AR.
Perhaps this year will also play this role. If we dare not imagine seeing an advanced prototype of the mixed reality headset on which Apple is working, we could perhaps, on the other hand, see unveiled the beginning of Mac Pro, which some analysts say however that it would not be launched. before the end of 2022, or even the beginning of 2023.
If Apple does not organize a dedicated conference by the end of the month or the beginning of May, we can also consider the arrival of new laptops. The 13-inch MacBook Air and MacBook Pro (as well as the Mac mini) haven’t been updated since late 2020. Rumors even have a full-size MacBook being reintroduced.
In short, you will have understood it, WWDC 2022 has everything to talk about, and is rich in assured software announcements, and expected hardware revelations. 01net will obviously follow all of Apple’s announcements as closely as possible.