‘WHAT WE WANT TO SEE AT WWDC: MOBILE WALLET AND MORE’
(MON JUNE 8, 2015)
APPLE MUSIC
- #AllOfTheMusic
- Will it kill Spotify?
- First ever 24/7 worldwide radio station – BeatsOne
- Revolutionary Music Service
- My Music – your music…
- For You – recommended playlist, is it the new Genius?
- New – discover more music based on Apple fanboy’s favorites?
- Radio
- Connect – is this the social network for music, or just Ping 2.0?
- 9.99 A MONTH (14.99 Family Pack)
- APPLE MUSIC FOR ANDROID
ONE MORE THING…
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WATCH OS
- Photo faces
- Time-lapse location faces
- MAKE YOUR OWN COMPLICATIONS – including adding a live balance from your mobile wallet loyalty card
- Time Travel – rotate the crown to see the future/past information
- Nightstand mode
- New achievements for Health and Fitness
- WALLET ON WATCH – Same features as iPhone that automatically recognize loyalty cards in Wallet
- Native apps moved to watch so it all runs locally: faster and smoother experience all-round
- Taptic and Digital Crown now open for development of Watch Apps
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APP STORE
- 100 billion app downloads
- Paid out USD 30 Billion to developers
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SWIFT 2
- All new optimization – whole module optimization
- OPEN SOURCE
- Anyone can now contribute to the development
- Rolling out by the end of the year
- Public beta sign up
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iPAD
- iOS 9 updates
- QuickType keyboard
- Keyboard is now a trackpad – editing becomes a lot quicker
- Shortcuts are easy to find
- MULTITASKING IS GETTING BETTER
- Full screen task switcher
- Quick slide over provides access to other applications
- Swipe down from the top to bring in another app
- One tap split view
- Picture-in-picture, at least.
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NEWS
- To compete with Flipboard and Facebook’s Instant Articles
- A more animated, personal news feed.
- Not really that NEW
- Heading to UK, AUS, USA
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- PASSBOOK BECOMES WALLET! – Sign up to get your content in mobile wallet first with CherryPie Beta
APPLE PAY UPDATE
- HUGE merchant increase
- Square launching a new reader, available in Apple retail store
- 1 Million locations next month
- More than 2 x increase in check-out rates.
- APPLE PAY TO THE UK – NEXT MONTH
- Support more than 70% of merchants in the UK – over 250,000 locations (more than US launch)
- Can use on London Transport System
- Loyalty and Rewards cards similar to Android Pay – automatically presents the correct card
- PASSBOOK BECOMES WALLET!
NEW SEARCH API
Third-party API could allow users to find Passbook Passes, loyalty cards, coupons and more via a single search.
iOS 9 (What we know)
- Enhance security to protect data
- PROACTIVE – enhance the way you use your device
- New Siri UI is like APPLE WATCH – as we predicted
- Content sensitive offerings based on locations and behavior
- Automatically takes you to the right information at the right time
- “MAYBE” suggestions from your personal data to improve communications (names during a call)
- Swipe left from home screen for search – “PROACTIVE”
- Swipe left also gives contextual information
- New search API could allow searching for Passbook Passes!
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EL CAPITAN (What we know)
- Spotlight is better.
- Apps are built better.
- Advancements all around
- Pin sites in Safari
- Go Warriors
- Mute or find out where music came from, unlike Chrome
- You can move spotlight…sweet
- Spotlight is also a lot more natural – search with questions
- Mission control is “smoother simpler, and faster than ever”
- Fun new mail features that are a lot more natural and user friendly – when working in full screen
- Click and drag content directly from one place to another.
- Create split view by dropping one window onto another
- FREE PRO UPGRADE!
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Drones, burning man, angry birds, Tinder, Tim Cook look-a-likes. All the memes.
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30 mins left. Still queuing. Still excited.
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We’re throwing around some possible names for the next OS. Themes include: back to animals, sticking with national parks, or maybe heading to outer space? Here’s a list of 15 crazy animal names that Apple could use. Our money is on ‘Naked Mole Rat’.
(MON JUNE 8, 2015 – 7:41 AM PDT)
Apple do put on a wonderful spread. Hope the announcements are just as sweet.
(MON JUNE 8, 2015 – 7:41 AM PDT)
Rockin’ the coolest shirts in the city
(MON JUNE 8, 2015 – 7:05 AM PDT)
The PassKiteers have arrived at WWDC.
(MON JUNE 8, 2015 – 4:20 AM PDT)
It’s now the morning of WWDC. And with speculation that Apple Pay is coming to the UK running high, are there new security concerns you should look our for?
1) Apple Pay Security: Issues or Intended?
Apparently, Apple didn’t make a mistake earlier this year when Apple Pay potential security concerns emerged. The lapse in verification between Apple and Banks might not have been a flaw, but instead planned to make sign-up as seamless and easy as possible. And it actually makes a lot sense when you think about it. As ZDNet quoted, “Card issuers went so far as to green path Apple Pay accounts, meaning that no additional authentication was needed for an Apple Pay user to get their wallet up and running, other than measures built into the iPhone.”
This at first might seem like a major security risk, but it’s actually not so silly an idea. Convenience is still king. And when racing for adoption, you need to make your new services as convenient as possible – even if that includes removing major bank authentication processes. So we would expect to see a similar security situation when Apple Pay launches in the UK (predicted to be announced at WWDC later today). Let’s see how fraudsters deal with it, or Apple/the banks deal with them.
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1) Codename Proactive: Key Apple iOS Update?
Watch out Google Now. Apple is readying a possible challenger. According to 9to5mac Apple are soon to reveal an integrated search that will make use of Siri, Calendar, and most importantly to you, PASSBOOK. Reporter Mark Gurman claims that it’s a result of…”an evolution of iOS Spotlight Search…the acquisition of a personal assistant app called Cue…and integration of core iOS apps” – like Apple Mapes.
2) Apple Pay UK, And Europe?
It’s rumored that Apple Pay are setting up a dedicated team in the UK. MacWorld.co.uk claims the service will launch as soon as this summer (to be announced tonight at WWDC 2015) – with a further European rollout happening later in the year. For some interesting insights on this mobile payment system and what it means for you, see our past posts here: https://passkit.com/blog/?s=Apple+Pay
NOTE: Everything on this blog that comes out before the official launch of WWDC is merely speculation and rumor, rounded up from across the web. Take it with a pinch of PassKit.
