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Apple Event, June 2022

Apple Event, June 2022

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Andrew Carrier
Jun 06, 2022
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Source: Apple, 6 June 2022

In an event that was high on quantity and low on detail, Apple unveiled a slew of incremental improvements across all of its platforms today. Here are my highlights.

Apple CarPlay

Source: Apple, June 2022

I’m old enough to remember Steve Jobs taking to the stage and - through what I imagine must have been gritted teeth - announcing the Moto ROKR, the phone for which Apple had supplied the most important software: the music player. At the time, Cupertino continued to deny they were working on a phone of their own and Motorola presumably thought partnering with Apple to teach them about making phones was a great idea.

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