Finally, Apple this week unveiled Final Cut Pro and Logic Audio for iPad, finally bringing its professional production apps to its high-end tablets. I’m no AV expert, but the apps seem to be nearly complete versions of Mac apps with touch interfaces for the relatively low price of $4.99 per month or $49 per year.
It’s the kind of announcement that would work great as an appetizer to any keynote. And there just so happens to be one coming in a few weeks. But Tim Cook had to look at the list of announcements for WWDC and decided there just wasn’t room for one more.
It’s quite exciting. WWDC doesn’t usually get the level of hype that September’s iPhone event gets, but this year already feels different. Rumors point to several new products for the software-centric show – and now that Apple has seemingly dropped a major announcement from the event, iOS 17 might seem like an afterthought.
While WWDC is no stranger to hardware announcements, last year brought the M2 chip and the redesigned MacBook Air; 2017 gave us the HomePod, iMac Pro, and 10.5-inch iPad Pro, but this year is shaping up to be a monster show, with several potential headlining announcements, including a 15-inch MacBook Air and a Apple Silicon Mac Pro. And most importantly, WWDC could be the launch event for Apple’s first all-new product in years, the Reality Pro AR headset.
Add to that rumors of a watchOS 10 overhaul, some of our “most requested features” in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and the expected debut of xrOS for headphones, and you have what might be the biggest keynote. Apple of all time.
And we don’t have much more to wait. The WWDC keynote will begin at 10:00 a.m. PT on Monday, June 5. We’ll be sure to bring the popcorn.
