Hi. The subject says it all. I hope it's okay to paste it here. Only one comment: I'm amazed! What an epic WWDC!
Live Coverage - Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 This page will update automatically, no need to reload. The keynote is due to start in 2 minutes. The keynote is due to start shortly, updates will be posted as they become available. Live coverage of the WWDC 2011 Keynote happening here. Seated at the keynote, tons of people are still filing in. Interesting observation: People nearby are talking about Apple just turning off the WWDC WiFi. Projector screens showing Apple logos. Nothing exciting happening yet. Presentation will being shortly. Asking for devices to be in silent mode. People waving for cameras, being shown on the projectors. Maybe not! Little Richard playing. Crowd seems very lively. Projectors showing cameras still slowly panning through the audience. Very packed, sitting super snug in these rows of chairs. It seems like they've put more rows in here since last year? Crowd cheering. Steve is taking the stage. Standing ovation. Thanking everyone for coming. Someone shouts, "I love you!" Steve sounds... exasperated. Weirdly quiet and not as energetic. Going over WWDC stats now, talking about how fast it sold out. 5,200 people here, tons of Apple folks floating around. "Today we're going to talk about software." Crowd barely cheers for Phil, seems everyone taken off guard by Steve. "The mac is doing incredibly well, our customer base continues to grow." 54m active Mac users and growing. 28% Mac growth, -1% PC growth. Mac has outgrown the industry every for the past 5 years. Citing MacBook Air as example of great Mac. 3/4 of Macs shipped today are laptops. "Great not because of hardware, but because of software." OS X launched 10 years ago, built on solid unix foundation. Showing screenshots of OS X when it launched 10 years ago, crowd cheering. Showing screens of how it is now, "evolved." "Where do we take it next?" 250 new features in Lion! Only 10 features being shown today of this fat Lion. Multi-Touch Gestures Discussing how they've learned from iOS, and applying that to everything in Lion. Showing gestures, remarkably similar to iOS. Swipe, pinch, etc. Scrollbars disappear, much like iOS. 2. Full Screen Applications "Really important for notebooks." Lion has a standard method for full screen apps. Swipe gesture allows you to get back to your desktop. More than one full screen app running at a time, a swipe gets you between them. Seems cool. Showing various Apple apps running full screen, look basically how you would expect. 3. Mission Control "The best feature of Lion." Demoing all these new features. Sarai UI looks very clean with no scroll bars. Everyhing behaves like iOS. Gestures now allow you to swipe through all the Safari history, looks very useful. Full screen apps can be switched very quickly with gestures. Photo Booth can track your face now! "Targeted facial enhancements." Can actively make your eyes huge, for instance. This seems like a weird thing to spend time on at WWDC. Now showing how easy it is to get back and forth between windows using the mission control three finger gesture. Going through all these window control gestures. Spaces can be created and managed through Mission Control, easy dragging and dropping. Seems very flexible. Can easily delete spaces, which sends all the windows in that space back to your main desktop. Now going over the Mac App Store. As an aside, all the icons for all of these things have had the same brushed aluminum look as the iCloud logo. In the last 6 months, the Mac App Store has become the #1 software channel to get Mac applications. Going over developers who have brought apps to the Mac App Store and how well they've been doing, some developers doubling (or more) their revenue. Mentioning other success stories. Mac App Store is built into Lion. In-app purchases will be available in Lion Mac App Store. Push notifications as well as Sandboxing for testing. Showing LaunchPad, which is initiated using a gesture to show an iOS-like display of icons you can page through. Everything shown so far looks like iOS running on a Mac. Can also make folders using these icons. Next feature: Resume, instantly resume where you were in an application after you quit it. Even works system wide, when you reboot all of your windows and apps return how they were. Crowd claps for reboot resume. Lion auto saves basically everything. Which allows for reverting to all sorts of things. Showing reverting a document. Also allows for basic versioning. Only stores the difference between revisions, making it space efficient. Version control of documents look just like Time Machine. Demonstrating all this now. LaunchPad first, showing the instant view of all the apps installed on this Mac. Seems like they're spending a LOT of time going over the features THEN demonstrating them again. This isn't flowing like a normal Apple keynote. Showing now how icons can be re-arranged in LaunchPad just like iOS. Now going over all the previously mentioned document control and versioning features. Demonstrating how Pages works with the new resume functionality, so detailed that selected text is even still selected. Now showing how the timeline works again, just like Time Machine. Meager applause from showing that things can be copied/pasted and dragged between different versions of documents. AirDrop - new document sharing method. "No one has done better than good ol' Sneaker Net," Peer to peer wifi-based network. You can see yourself, and people around you also running air drop. Sending files just amounts to dragging to the icons of other computers. Recipient gets a prompt, confirms they want it, and it downloads to your downloads folder. NEW VERSION OF MAIL! New design, multi-column view. Looks a lot like the iPad client, search is also improved. Looks a lot more automatic in regards to helping you intelligently search. Crowd claps for this new search method. Also, conversation view in mail. Attachments even shown in-line with conversation view. Now demonstrating mail. Search actually looks fairly intelligent. Even suggests subject lines that might apply to a few key presses. Searches can also be combined easily, looks super quick. Showing conversation view, crowd likes it. Clapping. Mail demo over. Now showing a slide with tons of different additional features, windows migration, filevault 2, lion server addon, facetime built in, etc. Server isn't another OS it's just apps you can run on top of Lion. Showing new development API's that allow devs to utilize things shown in these Apple apps. Lion available only on Mac App Store 4Gb Buy once. Install on all macs like all Mac app store apps. $29.99 New dev preview today. Available for everyone else in July Scott Forstall taking the stage for iOS5. Going over quick update for iOS, to date, sold over 200 million iOS devices. That makes iOS the #1 mobile operating system with 44% of the market. Adium "An amazing product." Presumably including 1 and 2 in that stat. "An incredible lineup of iOS devices." 15 billion songs sold on the iTunes music store. #1 retailer of music in the world. iBook Store launched a year ago, six major publishers signed up. 130 million books downloaded. App Store - Size and momentum hard to fathom. 425,000 apps. 90,000 made specifically for the iPad. Thanking developers for making them. 14 billion downloads so far from the App Store. In less than 3 years. "Amazing." Developers well rewarded, Apple has paid out $2.5b+ to developers. Apps cover every genre, showing a few different apps now. "Incredibly addictive games." Showing Tiny Wings and HBO Go. X-Ray apps. Apps have even been FDA and FAA approved for specialized uses. Customer pool of 225 million accounts with credit cards and one click purchasing. iOS 5! Crowd clapping. "Major Release" "Incredible for developers and customers." 1500 new API's 200 new features. Walking us through 10 1. Notifications. Crowd goes wild. Showing how bad they are now. Pushed more than 100b push notifications so far. "Scaled beautifully" Better UI incoming. Current notifications interrupt you. Also, nonsensical in the lock screen. When you unlock, the list isn't persistent if you have a ton of notifications. New solution: Notification Center Single place which combines all notifications. Can get to it anytime from anywhere by swiping down from the top. UI looks rad, crowd clapping. Even shows stocks and weather. Notifications no longer interrupt, you get an animation from the top. Has a cool animation too, like a cube rolling down from the top. Lock screen improved, much more information shown. Can swipe across lock screen on a particular notification to go directly to the app it came from. Demonstrating now. Swiping text message takes you right to the text. Swiping down brings you back to the notification center, swiping up makes it go away. Stock ticker scrolls across top. Can tap an X to clear notifications. "That is notification center." #2 - News Stand Magazines and newspapers? Most publishers onboards with subscriptions already. National Geographic, Spin, etc. Showing tons of magazines available. Nothing yet on how this ties into news stand. New listing in App Store that combines all of these newspapers and magazines. News Stand looks like iBooks but is specifically for magazines and newspapers. Background downloads grab new issues, sounds similar to how the Kindle works. Downloads automatically and can be read offline. #3 - Twitter 1 billion tweets sent per week (as an aside, Apple has updated icloud.com'd DNS so it now points to apple.com/icloud - nothing there yet) Even easier to use Twitter now. Built into iPhone. Single sign on stored in settings. Apps that use Twitter can use this with user permission. Twitter integrated into Apple apps like Camera. Tweet UI looks cool inside of Camera. Crowd clapping. Can also tweet articles from safari, videos from youtube, locations from maps. Contacts integrated with Twitter, grabs photos for contacts. #4 - Safari 2/3 of all mobile web browsing is done on Safari. iOS 5 - Safari even better. Safari Reader Looks like instapaper Even parses through multiple pages to a single story. Strips ads, etc. Can now just email story content along with link. "Works great on iPad and iPhone."'Reading list allows you to quickly save stories to read later. Reading list is synched somehow across multiple devices. New Safari has tabbed browsing. Showing how tabbed browsing works. "lightning fast" to switch between tabs Showing how reader nullifies reviews and other content that makes you click through tons of pages. Not sure how happy webmasters will be about this, it looks VERY automatic. Reading list works very simple, much like bookmarking. Showing how easy it is to tweet within Safari. #5- Reminders Built in list making app. Reminders apps allows for storage of multiple lists, with dates to remind you. Can even assign location, "Remind me to call my wife when I leave the convention today." Reminds you when you cross a "geo-fence". Checkboxes for "when I arrive" and "when I leave" based on the location you send. set, not send #6 - Camera iPhone camera is the most popular camera on a phone, and will soon be the most popular camera overall. Way faster, lock screen shortcut to get to the camera. double tap home button, tap camera icon Even if the passcode is set, you can't see anything else. Volume up to take photos. Crowd laughs/cheers. optional grid lines pinch to zoom hold finger to auto-focus and auto-exposure lock in addition to tapping Can now edit them from iPhone crop and rotate (FINALLY) red eye reduction auto-enhance from iPhoto #7 - Mail "One of the most used applications" rich text formatting control indentation draggable addresses Flagging as well. Search entire messages. Can swipe the inbox in and out in iPad portrait mode. S/MIME now supported. Demonstrating these features. Oh also, system-wide dictionary like iBooks, showing how this works in Mail. Shows up similar to how copy/paste UI works. Another system-wide feature shown: keyboard enhancements, can drag keyboard up, spits like an ergonomic keyboard, and is smaller for thumb typing this setting is persistent for all apps #8 - PC FREE!!! crowd cheering Projector showing crowd cheering, except one curmudgeon sitting there with arms crossed haha "We're living in a post-PC world." Lots of customers saying they want an iPad or iPhone as their only device. Now take your iPhone out of the box, instead of plug into itunes you just see "welcome" with an unlock. setup and activate directly from device software updates are now over the air Delta updates Just download what changed. "What are the reason people go back to a computer? Let's add that to iOS." i.e. creating and deleting calendars This is all going to be perfect for grandparents that got iPads for gifts, everything seems super easy. #9 - Game Center! "iOS is the most popular gaming platform on the planet." 50 million unique game center users. crowd barely claps? "Xbox live around 8 years, they have around 30m users." Even better in iOS , adding photos/avatars achievements points friends of friends recommended friends game discovery purchase/download directly from game center. Turn-based games now supported on OS level. #10 - iMessage Crowd "ooo" iMessage is a new messaging service between all iOS 5 customers. No mention of other protocols. Text messages, photos, videos, contacts, group messaging. Shows delivery receipts, read receipts, typing indication. Pushed to all devices, pick up conversation from iPhone to iPad. Supported via 3G and WiFi. Now demonstrating. Also seems to be showing this as a demonstration of the alerts as well. Alert isn't interrupting playing of Cut the Rope. Shows read receipts inline, crowd clapping. Photos and video are sent in "high quality" Looks just like iChat. Brief overview now of the 10 features they just went over. "Just 10 of the more than 200 new user features." AirPlay Mirroring!!! Mirror iPad 2 to television wirelessly WIFI SYNC TO ITUNES crowd goes nuts When charging at night, will find iTunes, back up and sync. new multitasking gestures Significant enhancements for developers including Core Image. "When are you getting it?" Developer seed today. iOS 5 shipping this fall. Supports iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad and iPad 2, 3rd and 4th generation iPod touch. "And that is iOS 5" Steve back on stage for iCloud. "I get to talk about iCloud." Talking about how the PC was the hub for your digital life, you put all your media on your computer. This worked well for the better part of 10 years. Devices have changed, so everything now has photos and video. Talking about how it's a hassle to "acquire" a song, and sync all your devices to get everything on it. "Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy." Digital hub being moved to the cloud. All devices can talk to the cloud whenever they want. Things on iPhone sent to cloud immediately, then pushed down to other devices automatically. Steve sounds much more energetic than he did when he opened the keynote, by the way. "Some people think a cloud is just a hard disk in the sky." "We think it's way more than that." iCloud stores content in cloud, wirelessly pushes to all devices. Completely integrated with apps!! Everything happens automatically. "It just works." 'WHy should we believe them, they're the ones who brought us MobileMe?" Crowd goes nuts. Showing how contact is all updated across all devices. Contacts and calendars stored in the cloud. Calendar sharing also added. Shared calendars also pushed out. Mobile Me ceases to exist, mail contacts and calendar is now free. Three more apps in iCloud universe. The first is the App Store, you can see full purchase history on all devices. iBooks also plays nice with iCloud, syncs progress between devices. "It all just works." Wirelessly backup devices to iCloud. Once daily, "a lot of your important content" updated to the cloud. On a new phone, just type in Apple ID and password, everything automatically loaded. Backup music, apps, books, camera roll, device settings, app data. "We couldn't stop there." Three new apps: Documents in the cloud. Pages document automatically updated and stored in the cloud. Can edit a document in pages, gets pushed to iCloud, then edit on iPad. This functionality in pages, numbers, and keynote. Versions released last week have those in it already...? Now demonstrating how this all works. File transferring seems totally automatic and effortless. Showing how you can tweak a document in pages, gets saved back to iCloud. Immediately pushed back down to iPad. Steve talks about how they've been working for 10 years to get rid of the file storage system. With iCloud it seems to be entirely removed. App manages presentation of its own documents. Apps can store documents in iCloud, documents pushed automatically, updates on all devices when changed on any device. iCloud Storage API's!!! Crowd goes crazy, whistling even. Works on Macs and PC's too. "We thiink this is going to be pretty big." "Photo Stream" - Bring the cloud to photos. Photo Stream works just like documents, but your camera roll gets uploaded to the cloud then sent to everything else. Can also import photos, then upload to the cloud and push to everything else. Steve stresses this is all built right into the apps "so there's nothing new to learn" On the mac it's built into iPhoto. "On the PC they don't have a photos app, so we use the pictures folder." Buit into Apple TV as well. Last 1000 photos are stored in the cloud. on iOS devices All photos are stored on the Mac/PC Stored for 30 days on iCloud, so iCloud doesn't warehouse your photos it just makes sure everything is synced it sounds like. Now being demonstrated. Taking photos with an iPhone. Photos already on iPad seconds later. (No WiFi issues this keynote it seems.) To save permanently, select, and save them to an album. Photos he just took are also on the Mac. Seems to work very well and seamlessly. Photos you take or import upload to iCloud, iCloud pushes to all devices, works over Wifi (curious they mention this and not 3G?) Devices store last 1,000 photos, macs and PC's store all photos. Last but not least, iTunes in the cloud. (This doesn't seem like a "one more thing") Steve discusses the hassles of syncing music. Songs you've already bought show up in a purchase history. Look at it by all songs, recent songs, artist can download to your device by album, or by individual song. Any music can be re-downloaded to any device for no additional charge. "First time we've seen this in the music industry." Automatic download switch, if you buy a song on your Mac in iTunes it gets pushed to mobile devices and vice versa. Demonstrating this now. They seem to specifically referring to this as "downloading" and not "streaming." Showing how iTunes in the cloud downloads to multiple devices. Showing side by side iPhone and iPad, as soon as a song is purchased on the iPhone it appears on the iPad. Showing side by side iPhone and iPad, as soon as a song is purchased on the iPhone it appears on the iPad. Music purchased from iTunes, high quality, up to 10 devices. All of the previously mentioned services are... FREE iCloud stores your content and wirelessly pushes to all your devices. Everything happens automatically. "It just works." To get iCloud, all you have to do is type in your Apple ID and password in iOS 5. iCloud can be disabled, but it's on by default. 5GB of free storage for mail, docs, backups. Purchased music, apps, and books don't count towards that. Photo stream isn't counted either. "When can you get your hands on this?" TODAY Developer beta today. iTunes in the cloud available today on iOS 4.3 Available today on (specifically mentions) the iPhone 4. ONE MORE THING!!! ONE MORE THING!!! ~ONE MORE THING~ iTunes in the cloud, discussing music you've ripped yourself. Deal with it- 1. Sync new devices via WiFi or cable. 2. Buy the songs you'll miss on iTunes. 3. iTunes Match service iTunes match uses the fact that they've got 18m songs in the music store. Chances are they've got the songs in the iTunes store that you've ripped. Same benefits as music purchased from iTunes...? Takes minutes, not weeks. Library is scanned and matched. Any songs that remain, you can upload. iTunes matched songs upgraded to 256kbps AAC DRM-free iTunes match - $24.99 a year Showing a chart how this compares to competitors. Apple charging one flat price, even for "20,000 songs." "Most of our customers won't need this, but those who do, it's an industry-leading offering let's put it that way." "If you don't think we're serious about this, you're wrong." Showing construction of third datacenter in North Carolina. "It's as eco-friendly as you can make a datacenter." Showing massive scale. Server racks look like something out of a sci-fi movie. clearly not using xserve hardware Wrapping up keynote now, going over WWDC stats. Keynote over, crowd cheering. That's all folks! Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
