Siri, emoji, apple pay … the latest properties from the firm at the apple – The World

Le Monde | 13.06.2016 at 11:54 p.m. • Updated 14/06/2016 at 7:24 | By Florian Reynaud

“A moment of silence to honor the victims and those who loved them. “ Arriving on the scene for the annual developer conference, Monday, June 13 in San Francisco, the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, who made his coming out in 2014, took a few minutes to talk about the attack in Orlando (Florida), who made 49 dead in a gay night club, the day before dawn.

As every year, he began by praising the performance its business, announcing that the bar two million applications on its online store App store – and that of 130 billion downloads. – had been exceeded

• the assistant Siri coming to the Mac

the news was somewhat stale: Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri, will be available on macOS with version 10.12 the operating system for Mac.

the other big news for Siri will be the opening of the tool developers to connect to other applications, to send a Facebook message or order Uber directly from a virtual assistant.

Siri will also be integrated into the keyboard, to analyze the received and sent messages, and propose answers or correct the sentences. It is also possible to type in different languages ​​without the spell checker goes crazy.

Apple wants to give a boost to his assistant, who has not changed enough since its inception, and is now suffering competition from Amazon and Alexa Cortana Microsoft, among others.

• the new software for the iPhone

available officially in the fall, the latest version of the operating system of the iPhone (available from the iPhone 5), made several changes to the screen locked phone, including the ability to display by simply straightening the device, as in the out of his pocket

Another new. Apple tries to transcribing voice messages, and detection advertising or fraudulent calls. The Maps application, whose design has been changed, will also be open to developers.

• The messages are inspired by Facebook

Largely inspired by its competitors Snapchat and Facebook Messenger, Apple added to its messaging tool iMessages can automatically replace certain words by emoji, adding the description of sent links, ability to send text messages to the hand (like a signature for example), text “invisible ink” to prove, or even purely aesthetic effects inspired other courier, like fireworks.

using a facial recognition algorithm and image 10 iOS analyze photos stored on the phone, and try to classify them automatically based on themes such as ski holidays, or photos of children.

• Apple Music takes sprucing

There is a year, the same developer conference, the firm at the apple presented with great fanfare its music streaming service fee: Apple Music. Today, the company boasts 15 million paying subscribers, and then Amazon is preparing also to launch a streaming service (according to Reuters), Apple Music underwent supposed to make grooming easier to use . Among the very few novelties, the US group has added the ability to read the lyrics of a song directly in the application.

Initially named “OS X” operating system Mac is named macOS now, and the new version, called Sierra, will be available in the fall. She introduced including Auto Unlock that enables to open the office without a password if the Apple Watch is recognized by the computer.

A copy and paste of the Mac to iPhone has also been added, as well as new features for iCloud.

• Apple Pay attack PayPal?

Future competitor to PayPal, the payment tool without contact Apple, Apple pay, will be usable on Mac, after being booked for iPhone. Now it will be possible to pay online using Apple Pay on an online commerce site, but only with a Mac and an iPhone to validate the transaction. For security reasons, it will use the fingerprint recognition, the TouchID to validate a purchase.

• A third version of OS Watch

Apple claims to have greatly accelerated the operation of the operating system of watches, watch os, in the third version planned for the fall.

watch new release of OS also adds an emergency call function, named SOS, connected to the watch, which will launch soon a 911 call in the United States.

just weeks after the conflict between Apple FBI following the terrorist attack in San Bernardino (California) on 2 December 2015, the company announced that all data passing through its services will be encrypted by default from start to finish, to protect them.

Apple has also assured not to be portraits of its users, and protect their data, even when they are analyzed and used by its algorithms and virtual assistants.