So grab your popcorn, and let’s see what we should expect.
The Worldwide Developer Conference is Apple’s only scheduled yearly event apart from the iPhone announcement in the fall.
It will be a good one, and you’ll probably find something you totally have to buy.
Rear view of the Mac Studio.Apple
A bigger Air seems like it would be a surefire hit.
Abigger version would offer most of that and more.
And the Mac Pro?
The M2 MacBook Air.Apple
The new Mac Pro will show us how Apple handles this.
This would let you install apps from outside Apple’s App Store.
It might only be available in countrieswhere the government forces Appleto use it.
M2 iPad Pro.Apple
And being from Apple, you could probably trust it with your most secret thoughts.
Speaking of the Health app, the rumors say this will finally come to the iPad in iPadOS 17.
And it looks like the iPad might finally be going genuinely pro.
The Health App displayed on an iPhone alongside the Activity app displayed on an Apple Watch.Apple
Last year the iPad got app windows in the shape of Stage Manager.
This year it might be getting the ability to choose the audio inputs and outputs for connected devices.
That’s pretty esoteric, right?
Apple VR headset render.Ian Zelbo
Yes, and that’s the point.
This is not to say we don’t want some cool new stuff too.
One possibility is that lock-screen widgets make it to the iPad, where theymake more sense anyway.
Another is that theamazing Dynamic Island, from the iPhone 14 Pro, could come to the big screen.
The ‘Reality Pro’ Headset
We saved the best until last.
But other than that, it’s still a bit of a mystery.
Display analystRoss Young tweetsthat the hardware will be absurdly good.
Software-wise, we have seen much of Apple’s work out in the open, albeit on other devices.
Spatial Audio, for example, allows for the exact placing of sounds in 3D space.
It’s not often that Apple launches an entirely new platform.
The last time was the Apple Watch in 2015, so this really could be an exciting keynote.
It will also be interesting to see how Apple places this headset.
For me, this might be the most exciting part of all.
Apple rarely launches duds, and platform-wise, it has never missed.
So the Reality Pro headset, or whatever it’s called, will almost certainly be amazing.
That’s the huge question that willhopefullybe answered on Monday.
