Everything We Expect Apple to Unveil at Next Week’s WWDC

Next week Apple will host its Annual Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. WWDC happens every year in California: The event is akin to a mega-church gathering, where Apple’s top brass present the company’s latest products and software to a giant audience of ecstatic developers. A spectacle, to say the least.

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s keynote speech will kick off at 1 p.m. Eastern time on June 2 and will be livestreamed here. If you want to watch along, you’ll need to use either Safari on Mac/iOS or QuickTime 7 on Windows.

Yahoo Tech will attend WWDC to document the madness, but in the meantime, let’s take a look at what product releases we can expect on the big day:

OS X 10.10
At last year’s event, Apple introduced OS X Mavericks, a free update to the operating system for desktops and laptops. The update included more than 200 new features, including completely new iBooks and Maps apps, improved Calendar and Safari, and multiple-display support.

There’s little known about what to expect this time around. Since Mavericks’ look and feel didn’t change much, all signs point to the next version of OS X, OS X 10.10, getting a heavy face-lift. It’ll likely resemble iOS 7, with app icons that pop, more white space, and sharper corners, at least according to the Apple rumors site 9to5Mac.

iOS 8
Last year, iOS 7 — Apple’s iPhone and iPad operating system — got a major design overhaul. That means we can pretty much expect the follow-up to look the same. But there are quite a few functional improvements in the mix (read on).

Maps
9to5Mac reports that Apple will spruce up its Maps app, improving data and adding the option to get directions using public transportation. If you’ll recall, one of the most vocalized frustrations at the release of iOS 6, aside from its surrealist depictions of terrain, was the fact that it lacked support for urban dwellers who need subway and bus information to get around. Since then, Google Maps has filled that bus-shaped hole in our hearts quite nicely.

Healthbook
This is the only part of the latest iOS that we have a potential visual on. The Healthbook app, which would be a new app to iOS, built by Apple, will apparently aggregate health and fitness information like bloodwork, heart rate, hydration, blood pressure, physical activity, nutrition, blood sugar, sleep, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and weight, according to a detailed report from 9to5Mac. These stats will be displayed via colorful cards in a Passbook-like design and could very possibly act as a central hub for data culled from Apple’s large collection of third-party fitness apps.

The iPhone 5s’ M7 motion co-processor allows it to track a person’s steps, miles walked, and calories burned. But there’s no real built-in hardware to help with the measurement of blood-sugar levels, hydration, and heartbeat. That information would have to come from something hooked up to the body, which opens the possibility that Healthbook could be integrated with Apple’s long-rumored iWatch. That being said, it’s pretty unlikely that we’ll see any wearables debuting Monday. It’s more likely that a Healthbook app would integrate with existing health monitors that hook up with the iPhone.

iTunes Radio
iTunes Radio has been somewhat overshadowed by its mother Music app. It’s possible Apple will break it out and let it run free among the other streaming music discovery apps next week. In March, Billboard reported that Apple was considering its own music-streaming service to rival Spotify and Rdio. This could very well be the first step.

That, and Bloomberg reported in April that Apple plans to partner with Shazam, a service that uses smartphone microphones to identify the title and artist of whatever song is playing at the moment. The logical step would be for Apple to integrate this technology into the iTunes Radio app, so you can automatically identify any song you hear at a party. Sort of like Facebook’s latest mobile feature.

Siri
It’s possible that Apple could unveil a Siri that gets along better with third-party hotel or flight booking services. A report from the subscription-only tech site The Information (summarized here by TechCrunch) says Apple is hoping to amp up Siri’s capabilities, so she can be more of a personal assistant and less of a robot you talk to when you’re bored.

Text Edit and Preview apps
Those OS X apps everyone knows and feels “meh” about might be coming to your iPhone or iPad, according to 9to5Mac. They won’t necessarily be used to edit text, images, or PDFs. Rather, they’ll act as locations to view files stored in those programs via iCloud. Sort of like the Google Docs/Drive bundle.

Home Automation Platform
Apple might be prepping a program that would integrate the company into the Internet of Things, The Financial Times reported Monday. In other words, you’d have a central operating system (which would likely be located on your iPhone or iPad) that would allow you to use your phone as a remote for lights, security systems, and other home appliances.

In the same vein as Apple’s “Made for iPhone” label, a select group of devices would be compatible with the system and sold in retail stores. No word of which companies are partnering with Apple on this one, though.

iMacs
This one is pretty thin, but some blogs are speculating that Apple will debut a lower-cost iMac during the second quarter of 2014, based on the fact that shipping dates for the current iMac have slipped from three to five business days (gasp!).

Unlikely
We probably won’t see an Apple TV, iWatch, or iPhone 6 at WWDC. They need more time to get nice and pretty for their potential fall release dates. In the meantime, feel free to gawk at this blurry photo of what might be an iPhone 6 (rumored to be coming out in August) and to indulge in Yahoo Tech’s recent rumor roundup.

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