Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference begins Monday. It's where Apple unveils the next versions of the software that powers its devices. Here's what else to expect.
In his first interview since taking a top job, Raghavan gets into the future of search, misinformation, employee ferment, and robots making phone calls.
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It was in September 2017 when Apple made IKEA a launch partner for its ARKit in the iOS 11 keynote, and all of a sudden the staunchly analog furniture brand was at the vanguard of retail tech. The IKEA Place app let you put digital furniture anywhere.
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Just a few months earlier, Tim Cook said in an interview that he was so excited about augmented reality that he wanted “to yell out and scream.” He name-checked IKEA and cited buying furniture as a prime example of something that can be completely changed by AR.
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Andy Baio is over online meetups. Zoomed out. VR skeptical. Serendipity deficient. A lot of us probably feel the same way.
But Baio has an advantage: He’s a technologist, a blogger,
and the cofounder of the XOXO festival, which first launched in 2012 as an event for creators minus the soulless marketing of SXSW. He’s experienced conferences and virtual meetups from all angles: IRL, 2D, sort-of-3D. So after nearly a year of mostly lackluster online events, he decided to build a new kind of meeting space, one that, he says, would fix the more depressing elements of online meetings while welcoming in “bright spots of creative experimentation.”