Apple Pay: works great, needs more places where it works. Trader Joe's, Dunkin' Donuts on the list of new additions.
"Popular merchants also expanding support. Trader Joes', Baskin Robins, JC Penney"
"I hope you've all tried Apple Pay ... Last year we started with debit and credit cards. Over 2500 banks supporting it. This fall Discover will bring Apple Pay .. to its cardmembers."
Must be leaving Eddy Cue for other news (Beats)
Jennifer Bailey, VP of Apple Pay business is on stage.
lots and lots of knitted-together search, notifications, Spotlight acting as the glue to tons of things. Not being associated with Apple ID is nice.
Next let's turn to Apple Pay
"If we do a lookup on your behalf, such as traffic, it's anonymous. .. it's not shared with third parties. why would you do that? You are in control."
Anonymous, not associated with Apple ID, randomized identifier, not linked to other Apple services
"You've seen how we've been able to bring intelligence throughout the experience in iOS 9. Done in a way that doesn't hurt privacy."
"Gotten reminder that traffic is bad so I need to leave."
"Show my Karaoke photos of Eddy."
Showing some funny photos of Apple execs at Karaoke
"Later today when reminiscing about WWDC. 'Show my photos from last June in San Francisco." Shows photos from WWDC. Photos has new scrubber line at the bottom so can quickly navigate
"Search is really handy, but Siri is also great at Search."
"In this case I actually want to do a search. Search for potato. I'm getting search results right from yummly. .. Can browse directly into another result."
Reznor is the Nine Inch Nails frontman who joined Apple through the Beats acquisition
"When I'm looking for recipes, I like to go into search. Siri has already made suggestions for me that I could contact, such as Trent Reznor, my vocal coach."
"Rest of the day ahead, vocal warmups for karaoke, then WWDC. Looks like i have a little time to prepare my dish for the potluck."
"Invitation from Phil. normally would have to go into email, look at time and put in calendar. but automatically has been added for me"
"I'll move on to exercise. Because my phone knows that when I'm in the home gym and hook up headphones and like to listen to music. When I plug in headphones, jumps right in and puts on energetic music."
Meditating amid all these reminders seems optimistic.
"Siri links right back to what I'm looking for."
"If I want to remember to pick this up, I can say 'remind me about THIS later today."
"Looks like I got an email from Phil, saying putting together invite for big Karaoke Potluck. Asking if I can pick up karaoke machine."
"Start in my bedroom when I woke up. Phone knows I like to meditate in the morning so offered me meditation app at the bottom of the screen."