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 automobile 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”
apple.com
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