Monday, June 10, 2013

Everything Apple Announced Today At WWDC


VIA: Apple just finished its WWDC keynote and holy crap, there is a ton of new stuff coming to iOS 7 and OS X. A radical looking Mac Pro was also showed off alongside some MacBook Airs with all-day battery life.

To help save you some time, here’s a list of everything new Apple introduced today at WWDC 2013 that we’ll be updating throughout the day as new info become available.

iOS 7



Completely redesigned interface
New Lockscreen
New translucency and Parallax allows you to see layers of info
Weather app has interactive displays
Calendar has new minimalist UI
Multiple page support in Folders
Notification Center now available on Lock Screen
FaceTime audio calls
Notification syncing
Phone and Message blocking
Activation lock disables phone if stolen
iPhone beta available to developers today
Coming this fall

Control Center
Swipe up from bottom of device to access toggles quickly
Turn on Airplane Mode, adjust brightness, AirDrop, etc.
Multitasking
New interface shows app cards

Multi-tasking for all apps with great battery life
Puts apps into scheduled background cycles
Adapts to network conditions

Safari
New full-screen look
Pull down from top brings up smart search field
iCloud Keychain support

Camera
Redesigned UI
New filters
Accessible from Control Center

New Photos App -
Collect photos into ‘Moments’ based on location, date, or people.
Look across photo collection by pinch-to-zooming through Photostream
Share photos via AirDrop, Twitter, Facebook, iMessage, etc.
See comments from people you’ve shared the picture with directly in image

AirDrop
Share images with friends
System-wide support with apps with share-sheets
Works on iPhone 5, iPad 4, 5th Gen iPod Touch

Siri
New interface with wave animation
All new female and male voices
Can now control more of your device such as adjusting brigthness
Wikipedia and Bing search results integrated directly into Siri

iOS in the Car
Get iOS on your car’s dashboard screen
Get directions, play music, have iMessages dictated to you and more, eyes free.
Supported by more than 12 car manufacturers in 2014

App Store
Search for apps by age range
Find apps based on current location
Apps are updated automatically (John McCain is well pleased)

iTunes Radio
Built directly into iOS Music app.
Featured Stations stream music based on its theme.
Share stations with friends, or create your own based on favorite artists
Preview and purchase songs directly in the app.
Support on Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV
Free for all users
Completely ad-free for iTunes Match subscribers
Launches in the U.S.


OS X 10.9 Mavericks


OS X names will now be California-themed
New Finder Tabs
Tags for files – keep track of files by adding a tag in OS X
Multiple Displays – much more powerful. Menus and dock appears on both displays.
OpenGL 4 support
Time Coalescing - helps improve your CPU efficiency by up to 72%
1.5x faster at waking a system from standby
Accelerated Scrolling optimized for Retina displays
AppNap – lets you pause apps to prevent battery drain
Developer preview available today
Releases Fall 2013

Safari
New Sidebar with reading list, bookmarks and shared links
Big performance improvements
1.44x faster in SunSpider JavaScript benchmark than Chrome and Firefox
Improved CPU energy uses

iCloud Keychain
Remembers your website logins, credit card numbers, etc.
Can suggest to auto-fill your forms for you with private info

Notifications
Reply to iMessages, Email, FaceTime calls right from desktop
Get push notifications from iOS apps on your Mac
Tells you what you missed on your lock-screen
Apps update in the background

Maps for OS X
Street Maps
3D Flyover
Info cards
Turn-by-turn directions
Send directions to your iPhone
iBooks for Mac
Access to 1.8 million books in iBookstore
Read books from your desktop or iOS
Interactive books just like in iOS

iWork for iCloud
Create iWork docs from a web browser
Works on OS X or Windows
New iWork releases coming to Mac and iOS later this year

Macbook Air


All-day battery life thanks to Haswell processor
2X GPU execution units with 40% faster graphics
11-inch MBA will have 9 hours of battery life
13-inch MBA now has 12 hours of battery life
45% faster SSD storage
Faster WiFi 802.11ac card
11-inch starts at $999 with 128GB storage
Ships today

Mac Pro

New unified thermal-core body
Intel Xeon with up to 12-core
Fastest ECC memory
PCIe Storage that’s 10x faster than any previous Mac Pro drive
Thunderbolt 2 support. 20GBps throughput
Dual workstation GPUs
4k display support
1/8th the size of old Mac Pro
Made in the USA
Coming later this year

AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule

New design
802.11ac Wi-Fi
Room for harddrive storage to beam files

Company Stats

600 million iOS devices sold to date
24th WWDC
attendees from 66 countries
6 million registered developers
WWDC sold out in 71 seconds
1 million daily vistors at the 407 Apple Stores in 14 countries
50 billion apps download from the App Store
300 million iTunes in the Cloud users
900,000 apps in the store
375,000 iPad apps
575 million App Store accounts (more accounts with credit cards than any store)
$10 billion has been paid to developers ($5 billion just last year)
72 million Macs installed
28 million copies sold of OS X Mountain Lion
35% of Mac users are now using OS X 10.8

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