Apple’s 2013 WWDC Keynote has just finished. Here’s our cheat sheet for the news that Apple released today…
iTunes Radio
- Built into iOS Music App
- Built into iTunes on your Desktop
- Streaming ‘stations’ for Genres
- Free (with Ads)
- Free (with No Ads) for iTunes match customers
- Available in USA now – other countries to follow
iOS 7
- New User Interface “the biggest change to iOS since the iphone”
- New cleaner design , colours, icons, parallax 3D effect
- Animated Wall paper
- Lots of Black on White as rumoured
- Swipe to the right to go back in many apps
- Multiple Pages now in each folder
- Notifications available from lock screen
- Control Centre – fast access to settings by swiping up
- Intelligent Scheduling – better multi-tasking
- Improved switching between Apps
- Integrates with OS X Mavericks iCloud Keychain (see below)
- New Rolodex looks to Safari tabs
- Airdrop for Apps that use the share sheet
- Photos organised into ‘Moments’ by using GPS & Time data
- Siri Voice Updated – Choose Male or Female
- Siri integrated with Bing search and Wikipedia
- More iOS Car integration coming in 2014
- App store updates are now automatic
- Notification Sync across devices
- Audio only FaceTime option
- Developer beta available today for iPhone (iPad beta to follow)
- Released ‘this Fall’
iCloud
- iCloud deeply integrated in next iWork
- iWork for iCloud – in a Browser, on a Mac or a PC
- Supports Safari, IE & Chrome
- Developer Beta today – all users ‘later in the year’
Mac Pro
- ‘Sneak Peek’ at new Mac Pro
- Tiny Black Cylinder Design (1/8 volume of previous design)
- Up to12 core
- PCI Express Gen 3
- 1866MHz RAM
- 1,25GBps Flash (10x Faster than any hard drive)
- Thunderbolt 2 – 20Gbps
- Dual Workstation GPUs – 528 GBps Bandwidth
- 4K Display Support (up to 3 at a time)
- Coming Later this year – Assembled in USA
MacBook Air
- New Airs with Haswell CPU for ‘All day battery life’
- 9 hour battery life for 11″ and 12 hours for 13″
- 802.11ac WiFi for up to 3x faster than previous
- 11″ starts @ $999 13″ @ $1099
- Shipping today
Airport
- New 802.11ac Airport Extreme and TimeCapsule
OSX
- The end of the Lions – OS X v10.9 Is called “Mavericks”
- Finder now features Tabs
- Multi-Monitor support seems to be fixed at last
- Airplay an OSX screen to an Apple TV
- New power saving and memory compression technologies
- iCloud Keychain for Sync’d passwords – 1Password-esque
- Maps App on the Mac which can send route to iPhone
- iBooks App on the Mac
- Developer preview available today
- Public release “this Fall”
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