Isn't there a way simpler timing analysis. The blog post is about a conference paper which will be presented in CVPR and the conference starts in 2 days.
This blog is not Apple's first blog; they started a Swift blog shortly after the release of Swift: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/
And WebKit has has a blog for 11 years now https://webkit.org/blog/4/welcome-to-the-webkit-blog/
> This launch is particularly interesting because this isn't typical for Apple, a fairly secretive and top down company (when it comes to external communications). Timing makes a lot of sense with their upcoming launch of ARkit, Apple Home, and the inevitable "Siri 2.0", among other things.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/apple-machine-learning-jou...