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2019 Apple Design Award winners announced

Apple's Design Awards 2019 banner

Every year, during the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple takes some time to celebrate some of the apps the company has discovered out of the App Store. The annual Apple Design Awards is meant to celebrate the apps and games, along with the developers, for their artistry and technical achievements. This year is certainly no different, as the company has announced the winners of the award.

iPadOS includes support for USB mouse input

As predicted in previous reports, Apple has added support for USB mouse input to its iPad. The feature comes to the tablet by way of the new iPadOS, as an Assistive Touch feature tucked away in the Accessibility section of the Settings app.

macOS Catalina announced with new apps, iPad as secondary display feature, Activation Lock, and more

Rounding out its WWDC keynote this morning, Apple unveiled the future of its Mac platform by way of an update it's calling macOS Catalina. As you'd expect, the update brings about a number of new features and improvements including new apps like ScreenTime and Find My, a new feature called Sidecar that lets you use your iPad as a secondary monitor, and much more.

Apple makes iPad a standalone platform with iPadOS

Apple has announced that it is breaking out its iPad platform into its own standalone OS called...yep iPadOS. The move is a significant one, as it underlines how different the tablet is from its smartphone sibling, and the update brings about a number of new features and improvements.

Apple shines a light on a pair of developers ahead of WWDC 2019

Erika Hairston will be attending WWDC for the first time this year

Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on Monday, June 3, this year. On that day we will get the typical keynote speech where Apple will talk about what's coming next for its major platforms, including iOS. But the conference itself is still meant to focus on developers, what they can create (both for Apple directly and their own efforts), and more.