You can even ask more complex, music-related questions like “Who’s the drummer in this song?” or “What album came out on this day 20 years ago?” It also has a “Musicologist” feature that works with Apple Music to stream the music you ask the speaker’s built-in Siri to play. Called the HomePod, it uses spacial awareness to tune and better fill the room with sound based on the space it’s in. So let’s get the Siri speaker rumors out of the way: it turns out Apple wasn’t quite aiming its smart speaker to go against just Amazon Echo and Google Home, but also the Sonos home entertainment speakers. Apple announces HomePod speaker to take on Amazon Echo and Sonos

Here are the highlights from today’s keynote. We were also anticipating the company to finally take Siri up against the likes of Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant on the hardware and smart home front - and it looks like it arrived in the form of the Apple HomePod. The rumors for this year’s WWDC came in the final hours leading up to the event, with hints of new hardware and, of course, software news for developers to help prep the release of consumer updates in the fall. Apple said that the number of tickets available for WWDC 2017 will be roughly the same as in recent years.Apple’s WWDC 2017 keynote just wrapped, where key executives Craig Federighi, Phil Schiller, and, of course, Tim Cook, took the stage to announce updates headed to iPhones, MacBooks, Apple TV, and more. In addition to the keynote address, get-togethers, sessions and labs for developers, Apple is working with the city of San Jose and local businesses to celebrate the return of WWDC with very special experiences around San Jose throughout the week. The McEnery Convention Center will be the hub for thousands of attendees with great hotel, restaurant and entertainment options, all within walking distance. San Jose is much closer to Apple’s new Campus 2 headquarters, which should facilitate the logistics of putting on the conference. WWDC has been held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco for the past 16 years. But the biggest departure of all is the change of venue.

The announcement came as a bit of a surprise because in past years, WWDC was announced closer to the event and it has often been scheduled for the second full week in June. Apple today announced that WWDC will take place June 5-9, 2017 in a new venue: the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.

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