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Apple (mostly) crushed it at the 2022 Worldwide Developer Conference

Now that the dust has settled and I look back at last week’s Worldwide Developer Conference, I feel that, with a couple of exceptions, Apple really crushed it. 

I think the new MacBook Air was even better than most folks expected. And few of us were expecting to see a 13-inch MacBook Pro with an M2 processor. 

All of the operating systems updates that were discussed (macOS Ventura, iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and watchOS 9) promise exciting new capabilities. And I can’t wait to get my hands on the public beta of iPadOS 16 to see if it really is a viable machine for doing my Apple World Today duties when I’m traveling. I’m cautiously optimistic. 

And the update of CarPlay had more depth than I expected. 

On the downside, I was expecting some substantial updates to tvOS (more on that tomorrow), but that didn’t happen. And I had really hoped to see the announcement of an updated 24-inch iMac with an M2 chip. Hopefully, we’ll see that before the holidays.

What was your favorite announcement at WWDC?

Dennis Sellers
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Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.