Did Apple simply affirm that this would be the largest WWDC ever?

At lengthy final, Apple this week unveiled Final Cut Pro and Logic Audio for the iPad, lastly bringing its skilled manufacturing apps to its high-end tablets. I’m no AV professional, however the apps look like almost full variations of the Mac apps with contact interfaces for the comparatively low value of $4.99 a month or $49 a yr.

It’s the type of announcement that will work very effectively as an appetizer at any keynote. And there simply occurs to be one arising in just some weeks. But Tim Cook will need to have seemed on the slate of bulletins for WWDC and determined there merely wasn’t room for yet one more.

That’s fairly thrilling. WWDC doesn’t normally get the extent of hype that the September iPhone occasion will get, however this yr already feels totally different. Rumors are pointing to a number of new merchandise for the software-centric present—and now that Apple has seemingly dropped a significant announcement from the occasion, iOS 17 may really feel like an afterthought.

While WWDC is not any stranger to {hardware} bulletins—final yr introduced the M2 chip and redesigned MacGuide Air; 2017 gave us the HomePod, iMac Pro, and 10.5-inch iPad Pro—however this yr is shaping as much as be a monster present, with a number of potential headlining bulletins, together with a 15-inch MacGuide Air and Apple silicon Mac Pro. And largest of all, WWDC might be the launch occasion for Apple’s first utterly new product in years, the Reality Pro AR headset.

Add to that rumors of a watchOS 10 overhaul, a few of our “most requested options” in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and the anticipated debut of xrOS for the headset, and also you’ve obtained what might be the largest Apple keynote of all time.

And we don’t have for much longer to attend. The WWDC keynote will kick off at 10 am PT on Monday, June 5. We’ll make sure you convey the popcorn.