Steve Sande

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<p>Today we're taking a bit of a breather after yesterday's marathon podcast and today's iOS 11 beta testing, with just a few stories to share with you.</p><ul><li>Are you in love with GIF animated images? The iOS 11 Photos app now has native support for GIFs, storing them in a special "animated images" folder</li><li>Anyone with a 1TB iCloud storage plan got a nice upgrade to 2TB today for the same $9.99 monthly charge</li></ul>

<p>This morning, I downloaded and installed iOS 11 Developer Beta 1 on my test iPad, which is an iPad mini 2. The download and installation were quite fast; Apple made it easy for developers to do the install as an "Over The Air" update by making it necessary to download and approve a profile, then rebooting the device. Once that was done, the installation was just like any other operating system update - fast!</p>

<p>Today's video is all about the news from the WWDC 2017 keynote, including the new iMacs, iMac Pros, upgraded MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, iOS 11, macOS High Sierra, HomePod, and a bunch of other things that were announced. </p>

<p>Today's AWT News Update all records and is now the longest -- at 25 minutes -- audio podcast we've done. Why? Well, in case you missed it there were a ton of announcements made in San Jose, California today -- the WWDC 2017 keynote was about two and a half hours long. We've compressed it all down to the details using our new AWTKit™ framework and squeezed the news into 25 minutes.</p><p>Be sure to join the entire AWT crew live on AWT TV tonight. Just point your browser to the <a target="_blank" href="http://youtube.com/c/appleworldtoday" rel="noopener noreferrer">AWT YouTube Channel</a> at 6:30 PM PDT / 9:30 PM EDT, and we'll be discussing all of the announcements made today.</p>

<p>One of the other expected announcements today was that of a "Siri Speaker". It happened, but with a totally different name than we expected -- HomePod (available in December in the US, Australia, and UK for $349). The crowd didn't exactly seem enthralled with the name, but the device is quite impressive and as Apple noted, it's meant to redefine music in the home the same way that the iPod redefined portable music.</p>

<p>First out of WWDC today were updates to watchOS. watchOS 4 will provide new watch faces, one of which will be powered by Siri intelligence. This will all be part of a free update this fall! The Siri face provides data that changes as the day progresses, with a rotation of the digital crown providing a 3D-list of what's been going on.</p>

<p>Today was full of exciting and sometimes perplexing announcements, and we've now had a few hours to digest them all. Join Dennis Sellers, Marty Edwards and Steve Sande for a live discussion of everything that we heard about today. Just point your browser to the <a target="_blank" href="https://youtube.com/c/appleworldtoday" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple World Today channel on YouTube</a> tonight at 6:30 PM PDT / 9:30 PM EDT and we'll be on the air!</p>

<p>We're all hoping that sometime today we'll hear about a new Siri speaker of some sort, but Patently Apple discovered something even more interesting. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2017/06/apple-wins-design-patents-for-siri-icons-in-china-and-eu-confirming-that-siri-will-work-with-future-smart-glasses.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">The design patent for Siri in the European Union and Hong Kong was updated last Friday</a> to cover "smart glasses" as a category of what devices Siri can be used as a remote control for. </p>

<p>The day that a lot of us have been anxiously awaiting is here -- the WWDC keynote launches in less than two hours and we're already getting some tantalizing glimpses of what might be announced. So what will we be doing here at Apple World Today on June 5, 2017?</p>

<p>Well, that was interesting. This morning a placeholder for an Apple app named "Files" appeared on the App Store before being quickly removed. Developer <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith" rel="noopener noreferrer">Steven Troughton Smith</a> saw the listing long enough to take a screenshot and then post it on Twitter. </p>

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<p>Happy Friday! As we go into the last weekend before WWDC, we have some fascinating, funny, and even disturbing news to pass along:</p><ul><li>Apple is wrapping up testing of a program in which freelancers will be hired to help correct or verify places in Apple Maps for $0.54 per location</li><li>Apple Park senior arborist David Muffly had a remarkable amount of similarity in background to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs...which is why he was hired</li><li>What happened to all those recalled Samsung Galaxy Note 7s? It appears Samsung may flood the South Korean market with refurbed Note 7s in September in a feeble attempt to counteract the iPhone 8</li></ul>

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<p>Thanks for another record month of the AWT News Update podcast in May! Here are today's stories:</p><ul><li>Decorations are popping up around the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA in preparation for WWDC next week</li><li>Developers have now received $70 billion on payments from Apple</li><li>Those Nike+ Apple Watch bands that matched some Nike shoes? They're now available...but sold out in many locations</li><li>A digital camera site has posted a review of Halide, a new iPhone app that lets photographers take more control of the photo-shooting process</li></ul>