What was the most important announced at WWDC 2016? – CNET in Spanish

SAN FRANCISCO – Just back from the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and my head still rumbles trying to organize all ads from Apple according to their importance and relevance after the inaugural meeting of its developer conference WWDC 2016

as usual and as expected, Apple and its executives focused on the four major platforms, including giving the luxury to rename one. So now your computer operating system called OS X passes to macOS in its latest version, Sierra. The other three are watchOS, for watches, TVOS for the Apple TV and iOS 10 for cell phones and tablets apple.

There were many, many, yet. Among them: a change of design and organization of Apple Music (which will now be more based on your personal collections), better performance of apps in watchOS 3 – plus a SOS emergency mode – a universal authentication system TVOS called Single Sign-on, subscriptions in the News app and app called Home HomeKit to control your smart home, among many other things. But there were three themes that stood out, in my opinion, although the company is not presented them as central issues:

Opening developers

Since WWDC is a conference for developers, there was a theme important though dispersed in the presentation: the opening of developer kits of three of the most important services apps and Apple. Now, third parties may create functions within their apps, or within Apple apps to get more out of these services and, at the same time expose their applications to a larger number of iOS users.

in the case of messaging Messages app, developers can create applications that run within the app to integrate their services. For example, apps or food delivery service may offer its users a tool to make group orders via Messages. These are not called bots , but extensions of the functionality of an app to work within Messages, similar to what can be done in Messenger Facebook, the company that opened the development of third-party apps in its platform for months.

Messages also received similar to what Google intends with its app Allo, as larger and more expressive text and interactive backgrounds to add more expressiveness to the message changes. It also now includes a predictive system Emoji , which may suggest a emoji in your phrase or even show you the words of your message can become emoji (more on this below).

Another app that opened to developers is Maps. third parties can now integrate their apps to Maps so people can order a car or make a reservation from there. Maps also offers enhancements to its navigation interface, which was much lower than that of Google Maps.

Finally, Siri also provide a kit for developers to integrate the functions of the digital assistant to provide search and voice commands in all types of apps for iOS 10 – and bring the functions of other apps Siri. Apple competes with increasingly intelligent assistants competition, as Alexa Amazon, Cortana Microsoft and Google Assistant, the latter enhanced by the extensive experience in search and artificial intelligence from Google.

The most important thing open to developers is that they can get more juice to services and applications a company, showing plenty of new possibilities and creating more useful and relevant to users things. Therefore it is very important.

Connection between devices and services Apple

Another thing that Apple only spoke in passing but which is extremely important in the ecosystem is greater integration between services and brand devices. Now you can unlock your Mac with just bring your Apple Watch, or copy text on your iPad to paste into your Mac (or iPhone) and pay with Apple Pay from your computer on the Web version of the payment system that can be used with the Safari browser, and manage all your expenses from any of your Apple devices. This is very important because the great promise of Apple – one of the few companies that experience controls both hardware and software of its users – is fluid and dynamic work between its devices and services

More artificial intelligence

Finally, another veiled announcement was the evolution and improvement of artificial intelligence software Apple. Despite emphasizing the aesthetic changes Apple Music, the music service now do a better job to predict what you want to hear and to help you discover music based on your previous preferences. Also, as I mentioned, Messages will suggest Emoji you can use depending on the context of your message and your previous behavior

Also, the app Maps will suggest places -. As restaurants. – according to your previous behavior, and your current location

But perhaps the most significant development is the memories in photos, which automatically arm you with a collection of photos based on who appear in the photo tab, which objects and place and time it was taken. To do this, Apple uses facial and object recognition, as does Google Photos.

Beyond the utility function, the important thing is the integration of artificial intelligence to provide services, features and tools that can become interesting for some -. and somewhat murky for other

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Perhaps it was just a tender gesture from Apple, but the iPad app for Swift Playgrounds children learn to program might be the best bet on the future of the Cupertino company, which knows that having developers interested in your platforms is key to their survival and healthy development. This year there were 120 developers under 18 at the conference, the youngest just nine years old.