Live WWDC updates!

WWDC is upon us. Set to unveil OSX, iOS 7, and more, look just past the fold for live WWDC updates!




We start with a video about simplifying. It was mostly black and white. Tim Cook talks about how 2/3 of people in the audience are here for the first time. Over 100 sessions, over 120 labs, over 6 million developers. Cook talks about selling out in 71 seconds. More than 1 million daily visitors at apple stores. 407 stores around the world in 14 countries. Tim's talking about a recently restored 100 year old Theater in Berlin. They've preserved the theater separately from the store and will be hosting events there.


The App Store hits it's 5th anniversary next month. More than 50 billion apps downloaded. 900,000 apps in the store. 375,000 apps designed for iPad. 575 million iTunes accounts! They have paid developers 10 billion dollars! That's three times more than the others combined! Tim talks about a company called "Anki". Their goal is to bring artificial intelligence and robots into our daily lives. We're getting a peek at their first product called "Anki Drive". Cars are going around a track controlled by themselves. They react based on their surroundings. They tell the other cars to try and block the robot car and they say he's equipped for that situation. A robot voice says "weapons enabled" and then the others fly off the track. Anki Drive is coming to Apple Stores this Fall. The Anki Drive app was just pushed today, so you can take a deeper look.


Cook is now talking about Mac. Mac average annual growth rate is way more than PC. 28 Million copies of Mountain Lion were shipped. More than 40% of people use the newest version, compared to Windows 8's 5%. He says that they've hit a real issue. They don't want to be the first computer company to be held back because of running out of big cat names. He says OS 10 is Sea Lion? Then he says just kidding that could be a dead end. Their first California themed release, OS X Mavericks. They announce "Finder Tabs". Then he announces "Tagging". In addition to name and location of documents, you can tag them. They now announce Multiple Displays to the biggest cheer yet. If you have an Air Play TV, it acts as a full display. He demonstrates merging windows into tabs. He then demonstrates the tagging features and search based on tags. When you tag a document, the tag appears in the sidebar and clicking on that summons all those tagged documents to the window. You can also assign tags by dragging documents into the Tag Window. Now he's demonstrating multiple displays. He has two displays hooked up to his Mac. You can have two different full screen apps on different displays and still interact with each other. Making an app full screen and swiping desktops does not affect the other monitor in Multiple Displays. He just brought an Apple TV into play and now he has three fully operational displays. He talks about several hard ware specs. Now he's focusing on battery. In Mavericks they align how CPU uses to save up to 72% battery life. Moving on to Compressed Memory. With Compressed Memory 1.4x improvement for a document and 1.5x for waking it up. Moving on to Safari. Clean new home page, great sidebar with bookmarks, reading list, and shared links. Shared Links is links shared by people you follow on Twitter and Linked.in. Safari is way faster, and uses way less memory. Safari's Javascript speed exceeds competitors in both real world and standards-based tests. We are now seeing a demo of the new Safari. We start with mail. 60fps scrolling. App Nap decides where power is needed so if you're not using Safari, it still runs, but in a much condensed state. This will greatly help your battery life. In your reading list, once you're done with one article, you can just scroll right through the bottom of that article into the top of the next. Next he announces iCloud KeyChain. Key Chain can remember Wifi Passwords, credit card numbers, account passwords, and it's all encrypted. Key Chain can generate passwords mainly random letters and numbers, and then you don't have to remember it. Notifications are being improved. FINALLY they add quick responses. You can now receive iOS notifications on your Mac. When you wake up your Mac, you'll get all your notifications on the Lock Screen. Next up: Calendar. Facebook events are added. You can see weather and travel time and other important information for events. Next: Maps. Info cards, turn by turn directions, when you have a route on your Mac you can send it to your iPhone. Developer SDK will be given. iBooks is being ported to Mac. This app supports notes, text books, and more. More demonstrations. You can search points of interest, and add sites to your bookmarks. The Info Cards are beautiful with reviews, phone numbers, hours, and more. If you type "Pizza" into your event, it will find pizza places near you. It then adds travel time to your calendar and you can see projected weather. So that you know when you have to leave, you'll get a notification on your phone and Mac. You can then make study cards using your notes to study what you need to know. Developers get Mavericks today! The rest of us get it in the Fall. Pictures below:





































An entirely new line of Mac Book Air is now announced. It has "All Day Battery". As expected, it uses Haswell. The 11 inch goes from 5 hours of battery to 9 hours. The 13" from 7 to 12 hr! You can watch 10 hours of iTunes movies! 802.11 AC Wifi on it. Almost 3X faster wifi speeds!

Now announcing new AirPort base stations. New AirPort Extreme and new hard drive. 2TB and 3TB hard drives available. The storage on the 11" is doubled for the same price, and the 13" is $100 dollars cheaper. The new Macbook Airs ship TODAY! Faster graphics, better value, faster wifi.

He says they're going to a give a sneak peek of something. Then Mac Pro pops on the screen. He gives it a grand introduction unlike any intro for any other product they've had. The lights dim and they show an awesome video. The desktop is a beautiful cylinder. 10x faster than any hard drive they've ever done. Thunderbolt 2 is now announced. 6 devices per port, and it's backwards compatible. Dual workstation GPUs. Apple now supports 4K HD displays! You can now have up to three 4K HD displays! 4 USB 3.0, 6 Fire wire, HDMI out, motion sensor so when you turn it, it lights up. This is the future of computing. Coming later this year. It is completely assembled here in the USA. Pixar will be there tomorrow to show off some Monsters University characters on the new Mac Pro. Schiller then walks away with the words “Can’t innovate my ass,”.










iCloud up next. It appears to have a new icon. This is the Fastest-growing cloud service ever. 600/100 of the top games have it built in. iCloud is being more deeply integrated into iWork. iWork for iCloud is introduced. It allows you to create on Mac or PC. Rather than talking about it, we're jumping right into a demo. These apps are completely on a web browser. Fully functional Pages in Safari. It works completely with Word documents. Numbers works similarly. He now gives us a demonstration of it on Windows. He opens Chrome and makes a joke about how incredibly slow it is. You can use iWork in iCloud on Windows just as easily (minus the speed). This is available today as a beta for developers, and all users later in the year.







iOS up now! Over 600 Million iOS devices sold. iPhone users use their phone 50% more than Android users use their phone. Apple holds 60% of mobile web share. iPad has 82% of tablet usage. 97% iOS satisfaction. Over 90% of iOS users use the newest version of iOS. 33% of Android users have the newest. iOS 7 annoucned. Sure enough the logo is the multicolor 7 on white background. Video made of the design. Stunning new UI. Jony Ive is showed talking in the video about his remake of iOS. iOS 7 looks absolutely beautiful. Flat. Black and white for the most part. All the iCons are redesigned. Words can't describe so i'll add pictures and video ASAP! iPhone responds to your movements. Multitasking looks like a mix of Dashboard X and Auxo!! I'm beyond thrilled with the changes they've made, as is the crowd who can't stop cheering! Somebody in the crowd just screamed out "LOVE YOU!". "The biggest change to iOS, since the iPhone". iOS 7 has a brand new lock screen and slightly animated backgrounds. As mentioned earlier the icons move with your iPhone. Weather looks totally different as does messages and everything else. "Your friends never looked so attractive!" "We ran out of green felt and wood!".

iOS 7 has an animated lock screen, but if you replace the picture, it has a parallax effect that moves as you move the phone. Green felt is gone from Game Center. No more wood shelves on the News Stand.

Demo up now. Pass code is totally different. He makes a joke about his pass code being 1234. You can see humidity and such. The weather backgrounds are animated based on how the weather is. It's also a world clock and you can get an overview of it all at once. The calendar looks beautiful. The messages app is totally different colors. You can swipe through menus rather than using buttons. You can have multiple pages in folders to store unlimited apps in folders. The keyboards are now transparent. As reported earlier, the signal's are now dots. There's a great new today view where you can see the weather, your events, etc. Notification Center is now available from the lock screen. Control Center is your widgets. You swipe up from the bottom of the device. This is available from anywhere, even the lock screen. Multitasking is now available for all apps, along with the new look for the multitasking. Just like Mavericks you can scroll through your reading list. Tabs in Safari are no longer limited and they have awesome new look. You can reorder your tabs, swipe tabs to close them, and the shared links. Control Center demoed now. Control Center also has the same transparency like so much others. You can swipe through your multitasking 'tabs' and it's really beautiful. AirDrop is added to iOS 7. It's kind of a mix between Bump and S beam, but with out the motion. It's completely over Wifi. You can swipe through your cameras, and you now have live filters. New Photos app up next. Photos in iOS 7 are now organized by 'Moments'. You can organize them by location, date, etc. Again, photo filters are built in. You can now share to AirDrop, Facebook, Twitter, iCloud, Mail etc. No Flickr news yet. You can now share video via iCloud. True multiuser shared photostreams that support videos, comments, and a timeline style view. Photostream feels like a real feature now. Siri has a beautiful new interface. Siri has an all new voice. You can choose female or male. She sounds much more real. Twitter is now integrated, Wikipedia is, Bing is integrated, photos integrated, and she can now control system toggles. iOS in The Car up next. iOS is built in to the screen of your car and you can control it all via Siri. You can now find apps based on age range, location, and more. The App Store updates your apps automatically now! Music now. You can stream from iCloud in both Music and Videos. The old album look for horizontal is now completely redesigned. iTunes Radio just popped on the screen. It is built right in to the music app and we're now getting a demo. You can create your own stations, or use featured ones. iTunes Radio is free with ads, or if you're and iTunes Match subscriber it's ad free. There's more to iOS 7 then they could talk to. FaceTime Audio, notification sync, Phone Facetime and Message blocking. I'll try and get a list of all new features ASAP. Activation Lock makes your device more secure. If a thief turns off Find My iPhone, they can't use it because they don't know your iCloud credentials. iOS 7 is available to developers in beta today. Betas for iPads soon. iOS 7 for everybody this Fall. Look here to see pictures of iOS 7.