At 1:00 am Beijing time on June 8, the annual WWDC Apple Developer Conference will be held online.
Before the end of May, I predicted some highlights of this WWDC for you, and I will release it again:
It will open on June 8, first predict the highlights of this Apple WWDC 2021:
1. iPhone 6s/ 6s Plus generation "magic machine" new system support is estimated to end here.
still supports the updated products that retain the circular home button (excluding SE series), only the iPhone 7 series and iPhone 8 series are left (both do not have the 3.5mm headphone interface, and there is no physical home button. );
2. New iOS, macOS, watchOS, iPad OS. After all, this is the main focus of WWDC every year. Personally, I speculate that the user operation level of the system has not improved much. The key point is to see how the ecological is further unified, and what will happen in the future when the entire Mac system and even the entire iPad system are equipped with the M series chip , you should be able to see some signs in this game;
3. In terms of hardware , speculates that AirPods 3 is coming, and this series has not been updated for a while. Recently, new products of noise-cancelling TWS headphones in the Android camp have been released frequently. On the one hand, the technology has arrived, and on the other hand, it is speculated that the former "big brother" AirPods will be updated to the next generation. In addition, there is also news that iPad Mini and MacBook Pro 14/16 inches may be released;
4. The rumored M2 or M1x chip, I feel that it will not be available this time.
So, as the core of WWDC every year - the new generation iOS system, what new changes will be made this time? One of the systems, Apple's iOS development has been quite mature today. The updates over the years can basically be said to have been making minor repairs, making the already perfect system more convenient and easy to use.
For a system, better ease of use and lower learning cost are the core directions of system updating and upgrading. Therefore, the author believes that the update of iOS 15 is still a small repair, and there will be no very eye-catching changes.
On the other hand, judging from the current news of iOS 15, it seems that there are not too many functional updates. The only core change should be the further improvement of permissions and privacy security.
Fewer functional changes, stricter permissions and privacy
According to the current revelations, the new iOS 15 may have the following updates:
1. The sparse and common in the Android camp is finally going to display . Appeared on the iPhone, but it should only be an iPhone with an OLED screen;
2. There are more modes, has different notification processing in different modes, , etc.;
3. iMessage adds more social functions , but domestic users The perception may not be strong;
4. The size of the widget increases ;
5. The default program of can be replaced by .
As mentioned in the previous paragraph, iOS 15 has fewer functional updates from the current exposure updates, and more likely depends on how Apple further strengthens privacy protection.
The linkage of software and hardware ecology may further deepen
This is a trend, because the development of a single device is actually relatively complete, and there is still a lot of interconnection between scene-based and ecological devices. big room for development.
As an early starter in this regard, Apple has opened up the development and transplantation of software applications between different devices and different Apple systems at WWDC 20 from the perspective of developers. Now there are M series chips with ARM architecture. The integration between ecology will be interesting.
The rest will wait for the press conference.
