Fortune reports that Apple selected this young Australian girl, as she had applied for a scholarship to travel to WWDC.
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In a flawless world, she’d like Apple to bring Xcode to the iPad.
It is good to see young people fiddling with the app development process and finally developing their own apps. You’ll also find a new control centre, quick replies to messages, a ton of activity and fitness features and a new emergency dial feature for those moments when you might need to call 999. Apple’s idea, and it is showing this in abundance this week, is to connect dots everywhere in its product line and use a common programming language, Swift, to do it. Siri, for one well-known example, will be available on just about every device it makes. iMessaging is finding new use cases all the time.
What does she want to be when she grows up?
Continuity across your Apple devices also gets better in macOS Sierra.
Apple says it will soon expand the service to Switzerland, France and Hong Kong. Meanwhile, the Messenges app is evolving to allow handwriting and integration from iOS apps, in much the same way as Facebook Messenger has. We never know exactly what we’re going to get. From the new design changes coming to the lock screen, notifications and more.
Apple also discussed Apple Pay, but did not forget to mention and emphasize its support for China’s Alipay and noted that the new Phone iOS extension API can be useful in the country since it could aid in detecting phone scams.
The battle of the digital assistants will begin again in earnest in the fall of 2016 when the latest version of Apple’s Siri hits the street with iOS 10.
James Tonkin and Niall McCarthy began working on the app in May 2007 in Brisbane before moving to Sydney to set up a head office for the app that now boasts an global reach.
With only $130 in her piggy bank – not enough to pay a developer to build the app for her – she made a decision to take matters into her own hands and spent a year watching free tutorials on YouTube and internet to learn how to programme, Fortune magazine reported.
For Vijay, developing apps is about empowering children.
“It was like a dream to be here and meet so many people.”
For this second app, the young programmer is using Swift.
WWDC 2016 wasn’t all about emojis’s, buried among the consumer-facing tech, Apple and partners had valuable news for enterprise professionals.
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Apple took a lot of effort to beef up its tvOS, seeing as how Android TV is quickly gaining ground in the TV console market. For now, check out the feature breakdowns on the Apple website and the above video and look forward to updating your devices when everything is pushed out.
