Apple's Software Gets Updated

Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference is a major source of news for all things related to Apple's software.  Want to know where iOS, the operating system that powers iPhones and iPads, is headed?  You need to follow the WWDC every year.

The folks over at Re/Code have done an excellent job live blogging and recapping.  Check it out here:

http://recode.net/2015/06/08/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-2015-liveblog/

A few keys from my perspective are:

• Apple Music is here and Beats’ Jimmy Iovine and Apple’s Eddy Cue is here to tell us how awesome it is. The service starts June 30 and costs $9.99 a month after a free 3-month trial.
• Apple Maps gets an improvement with Transit, which shows mass transit directions. 
• Apple Pay is expanding to include many more retailers, including Trader Joe’s, Forever 21 and Levi’s. It’s also coming to the U.K. and folks there will be able to pay for their fares using Apple Pay, which is pretty cool. The changes are part of the company’s effort to try and replace your wallet — by the way, Passport is now called Wallet.
• Apple’s newest version of OS X is called El Capitan

Happy Reading,

J.W. Gant