Like every Tech Giant in USA organizes the yearly conference, Apple also organizes WWDC which stands for World Wide Developers Conference. This year conference started at San Francisco on 11-June-2012, 10:00am.
Here are key points from the keynote
Achievement Statistics – “Size and momentum are just phenomenal”
Apple Business
- 400m accounts on the Apple App Store, WITH CREDIT CARDS.
- 650,000 apps on the Apple store
- 225,000 of these apps are specially for the iPad
- New milestone in the App Store: 30b apps downloaded
- 5 billion US Dollars paid out to developers so far
- Currently Apple App Store operates in over 120 countries. Now adding 32 countries more countries which will make apps tore available in 155 countries.
OS-X
- 8th major release of OSX.
- Mac installbase is currently 66m
- 26m copies shipped
- 40% of OSX users are running Lion, number achieved in 9 months. It took 27 months for Windows 7.
- 1700 new APIs for developers in Mountain Lion.
iOS
- 365m iOS devices sold through the end of March
- 80% of customers are running iOS5
- 2.3 takes the largest slice. 4.0 released about the same time as iOS 5, 7% running latest version.
- 84 of the top 100 social apps using Apple push notifications.
- 7 billion notifications sent PER DAY.
- 1.5 trillion notifications sent so far.
- 140m iMessages users, 150b messages sent, 1b+ per day.
- 3x growth in iOS users. 10b tweets from iOS 5, 47% of photos from iOS 5.
- Game Center, 130m accounts, 5b scores per week, and 67 of the top 100 games.
New Apple Mac book Air Laptop
- 3rd gen Ivy Bridge CPU
- Up to 2.0ghz i7
- Up to 8GB of memory, 1600Mhz
- USB 3 on board
- Flash Memory twice fast as 500 MBps read speed.
- Upto 512 GB flash storage (SSD)
- option of 11 inch and 13 inch display
- 7 hour battery life maintained
- Starting from $999 for 1.7 Ghz Dual Core, Core i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 64 GB flash drive.
New Apple Mac Book Pro Laptop
- Two models with Retina Display
- 0.71 inches thin, 1/4 thinner, about as thin as a MacBook Air
- 15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology
- 2880-by-1800 resolution at 220 pixels per inch.
- 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost and 6MB shared L3 cache
- Next-gen Kepler graphics, GT 650M with 1GB of VRAM, Built around flash storage, 768GB max
- $2199 for 2.3 Ghz with 256 GB flash drive
- $2799 for 2.6 Ghz with 512 GB flash drive.
- 7 hour battery life maintained
- Weight 4.46 lbs
- Higher contrast ratios, deeper blacks. Glare reduced by 75% on glossy screen.
- iPhoto, Mail, Safari, etc all updated for Retina Display, Professional applications also getting updated
- SD slot, HDMI, USB3 USB2 combo ports on one side and MagSafe 2, two Thunderbolt ports, another USB3/2, and headphone jack on other side.
- Glass multitouch trackpad onboard, backlit keyboard
- 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0
- Facetime HD camera, DUAL Mics.
- Orders starts shiping today
Mountain Lion OS X
- Interface optimized for multitouch trackpads and mice while making it more natural than ever to work with the devices in our lives.
- Over 200 new features, detailing 8.
- 125 iCloud users
- Messages, Reminders, and Notes all iCloud enabled.
- Documents in the Cloud, available on all Apple apps that use documents
- Developer SDK also available.
- Notes moved from Mail to its own app
- Messages brings iMessage to the Mac
- Notification Center.
- Dictation-Everywhere on your Mac where you can type, you can talk
- Sharing is built in system wide, Flickr, Facebook, Twiter.
- New Safari Browser with fastest Javascript Engine
- New unified smart search field, can type the search in address bar
- Fantastic new feature” tab view, using gestures to navigate tabs.
- Touch screen like gestures
- Power Nap – keeps your mac up to date while it sleeps, fetching email, reminder and calendar updates, and will even handle your photo stream.
- Back up to Time Capsule and download updates automatically
- iOS Game center comes to desktop with Mountain Lion.
- Show MacBook display on AppleTV with AirPlay
- Mountain Lion Available Next month for $19.99
iOS 6
- 200 new features
- significant enhancements to Siri in last 8 months
- Facebook support with public API, easy to integrate.
- Phone app now has a button next to slide to answer, you can slide up to reply with a message or add a reminder to call back later.
- Do Not Disturb mode & Favorites or contacts groups.
- iOS 6 has FaceTime via Cellular network. Now you can do facetime through 2g, 3g or 4G networks.
- Phone number and Apple ID are unified in iOS 6. If someone calls you with phone number through FaceTime, you can answer on iOS device or on Mac.
- Safari – 2/3 of all mobile web traffic comes from Safari on iOS.
- Photo uploads finally available inside of Safari
- Full-screen support in landscape on the iPhone in Safari
- push notification with photos.
- VIP allows you to mark someone as a VIP, when you get an email from a VIP,
- new emails from that person show up like a text message on lock screen. VIP emails are starred and there’s even a VIP mailbox.
- Passbook – Handles tickets and boarding passes
- Maps – Entire new mapping solution built from the ground up.
- Traffic service available through crowd source, anonymous iOS users.
- turn-by-turn navigation with SIRI voice.
- 3D buildings with touch rotation.
- Game Center challenges, easy to challenge friends to scores.
- Tons of feature for China, similar to OSX
- Beta of iOS 6 today for developers.
- iOS 6 will ship this fall for iPhone 3GS and later, 2nd and 3rd generation iPad, and 4th generation iPod touch.
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