March 23 (Reuters) – Apple said on Monday it would host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) online from \u200cJune 8 to 12, showcasing updates across its platform, \u200cincluding AI advancements and new software and developer tools.<\/p>\n
Developers and students will \u200bbe invited to attend in person at Apple Park on the opening day, the iPhone maker said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The presentations at Apple’s last developers conference focused more on incremental \u200cdevelopments, including live translations \u2060for phone calls, which improve everyday life rather than the sweeping ambitions for AI that \u2060its rivals are marketing.<\/p>\n
Separately, Bloomberg News reported on Monday that Apple is preparing to introduce advertising in its Maps app \u200bas part \u200bof a wider push to \u200bgrow its services revenue.<\/p>\n
An \u200cannouncement could come as early as this month, Bloomberg News reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Retailers and brands would be able to bid for ad slots against search queries, similar to how advertising works in Google \u200cMaps.<\/p>\n
Apple intends to launch ads inside \u200bMaps as early as this summer, \u200bwith the rollout spanning \u200bthe iPhone, other devices and web platforms, \u200cthe report said.<\/p>\n
The company did \u200bnot immediately respond \u200bto a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n
Revenue from Apple’s services segment, which includes Apple Music, iCloud and other software, \u200bclimbed to a \u200crecord $30.01 billion in the first quarter, broadly in line \u200bwith analysts’ expectations.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico \u200bCity; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 23 (Reuters) – Apple said on Monday it would host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) online…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1572,14648,57365,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-555980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-music","tag-apple-park","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}