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Everything you need to know about Apple’s announcements

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Monday was the big keynote at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference

Here is the summary of all the new offerings, thanks to Wired:

iOS 13 for the iPhone:

  • The background is now all black for a more modern look
  • Music player shows the lyrics to your songs
  • Maps will notify your friends of your ETA (no more fibbing about being almost there)
  • A new keyboard “Quick Path” enables you to choose words rather than type them
  • Sign in to third party apps using your Apple ID without sharing your data and contacts, as you do with Google or Facebook sign ins

dis-rup-shun: Apple is playing catch up to Android’s, and particularly Samsung Galaxy’s feature gains with software, given that the next advance in camera features will not be released for four months. Apple has taken the good guy posture on data sharing — taking advantage of consumer backlash against Facebook and Google’s “know all” policies.

Apple Watch

  • A separate app store for Watch provides more app options
  • More health tracking
  • More audio capabilities

MacPro

  • Impressive metal radiator-looking industrial design and even sharper monitor
  • Intel Xeon processor and heavy duty graphics card capable of 12 simultaneous, 4K video streams
  • $11,000 price tag for this professional grade device

 MacOS for laptops and desktops

  • A “sidecar” app enables an iPad to be an extension of the laptop/desktop
  • Project Catalyst is for developers — making it simple for one app code base to run on pads or desktop

iPad OS

  • A number of enhancements make the iPad behave more like a PC

dis-rup-shun: Apple is tired of losing tablet buyers to Microsoft’s surface — the Surface has become an effective back path to lead iPad users back to Windows.

Siri

  • More human voice
  • Ability to voice control third party apps such as Pandora and Waze

dis-rup-shun: Apple is tired of watching Alexa spread like wildfire and threaten CarPlay’s dominance on the dashboard.

AirPods

  • The ability for multiple wearers to listen to the same audio source

iTunes

  • Content is now separated into an app for video, an app for music, and an app for podcasts

Memoji (not to be confused with iPhone X’s Animoji)

  • Emojis are more detailed and lifelike

dis-rup-shun: Animojis are so realistic they are creepy and will entertain users for hours. Memojis spread the fascination to older iPhones.

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Will the iPhone faithful bear the brunt of trade wars?

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How new tariffs will increase the cost of your next iPhone

Last week’s new tariff on Chinese goods levies a 25% fee on electronics (and about all other) products from China. While your iPhone is designed in Cupertino, it is assembled in China and subject to the new tariff. Outcomes for device makers such as Apple, assuming no settlement is reached in the near term, include passing on the fees to consumers, estimated to be a 14% increase, reducing profitability by subsidizing the tariff, moving their manufacturing to Vietnam, India or even the U.S. Wired

dis-rup-shun: Given the recent decrease in growth rates of smartphone sales, it is unlikely Apple will pass costs on to consumers, especially since its primary smartphone competitor, Samsung, makes phones in South Korea and is not subject to new tariffs. The tariffs are, however, a reminder of the need for multiple sources in multiple locations.

The future of work is less about structure and more about values

At Atlassian’s Future of IT conference, 13 takeways on the future of work elaborate on three themes: 1. technology has made traditional structures such as titles, locations, academic majors, and organizational teams mostly irrelevant to outcomes, 2. the value of a company is the quality of its talent base, 3. lifestyle balance and purpose, more than income, make a company healthy and happy. ZDNet

dis-rup-shun: Video conferencing tools have made location nearly irrelevant for knowledge industries. Collaboration tools, including email, eliminated the boundaries of a traditional 8 to 5 workday nearly two decades ago, forcing workers to determine how much of their personal lives they are willing to give to the corporation. For this reason, purpose and the pursuit of well-being for stakeholders have become critical management mandates for a sustainable corporation, including increasing shareholder returns.

Samsung S11 Galaxy expected to be a design game changer

Early glimpses of the upcoming Samsung S11 smartphone indicate that the device will not only provide a groundbreaking 64 megapixel camera, but will be a design masterpiece. T3

dis-rup-shun: Camera innovation is the theme of the current smartphone battles, with the devices providing stunningly beautiful photos. With the pace of new smartphone features slowing and prices remaining high, shifts in market share will be very difficult to win. Samsung’s smartphones are improving more quickly than iPhones, slowly chipping away at Apple’s share, but the Apple faithful will continue to consider the Android experience too large a step from the comfortable iOS interface.