Update: Apple has just posted the WWDC 2011 Keynote video on their website.
Here is a quick read of all the things that were announced in the Apple’s WWDC Steve Jobs keynote today.
Mac OS X Lion Features
- Multitouch gestures
- Full screen apps
- Mission Control
- Mac App Store – built-into Lion, built-in sandboxing, faster updates
- LaunchPad – gesture makes icons appear on screen
- Resume – apps go back to the same place you closed in
- Auto Save – automatically saves documents – can revert – can set not to save
- Versions – Version control system on your Mac
- Air Drop – peer to peer file sharing between Macs over WiFi – built into Finder
- Mail 5 – new redesigned mail app
- New File Vault
- Lion Server
Price: $29.99
Available only via Mac App Store
iOS News
- 200 million iOS devices sold
- No. 1 mobile operating system – 44% of market
- 130 million books downloaded via iBookStore!
- 425000 iPhone apps and 90000 iPad apps in App Store!
- 14 billion apps downloaded in less than 3 years
- Apple has paid out $2.5 billion to developers
- 225 million accounts with credit cards
iOS 5 New Features
Over 200 new features
- Notifications
- Notification center – swipe down from top to see a list
- tap on a notification to go to the app
- Newsstand
All the news papers and magazines will be available there. You can purchase, preview and read papers right inside of the app.
Supports background downloads.
iBooks for newspapers and magazines.
- Twitter integration
Single sign-on – sign in once through settings and use Twitter anywhere like Photos, Youtube, etc. Wonder if it has multi-user support?
- Safari
Reader – makes it like you have Readability on iOS mobile Safari
Reading List – Think Instapaper. Will sync with iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Mac Safari
Tabbed browsing – looks lightning fast!
- Reminders
Reminder for any dates. Autosyncs over iCal. Also store locations.
- Camera
Camera icon on the iOS 5 lockscreen.
Use volume up button to take a photo
Grid lines (optional)
AE/AF lock
Pinch to Zoom
Edit Photo – crop, rotate, reduce red-eye and one click enhance. - Mail
Rich-text formatting
Control indentation
Draggable addresses
Support for flagging
Search entire email content
iPad: swipe to inbox
Built-in dictionary
S/MIME enterprise support
Keyboard
Split keyboard – just move it up - PC Free
You don’t need a computer to activate or update!
- Game Center
Game downloads
Turn based games - iMessage
Think Blackberry messenger
Free messaging between iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
Over 3G and WiFi – sent encrypted.
Delivery receipts
Read receipts
Typing indication
Pushed to all devices
Send text, photos, videos, contacts, etc - AirPlay Mirroring
Completely mirror your iPad screen over WiFi to your TV
iOS 5 SDK seeded to developers today. Rest of us to get it in Fall. Supports 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 1/2 and iPod Touch 3rd Gen or later.
{image credit: Engadget live blog }
iCloud Features
Steve Jobs says iCloud – “it just works”.
- MobileMe features
- 1. Contacts – any changes made on one device is pushed to other devices
- 2. Calendar – same as contacts
- Calendar sharing
- 3. Mail – same as above
- As of today – all these MobileMe features are FREE!
- 3 more news apps in iCloud
- App Store in the iCloud – your purchase history is in the cloud
- iBooks – same as App Store – stores your reading page from one device and pushes it down to other devices
- Wireless Backups – once daily – all important contents to the cloud. New device setup- username password – everything comes down to your device.
- Documents in the cloud – forget Google Docs now.
- Photo Stream – You can see all your photos everywhere. On PC it will go to a Pictures folder. It lets you store the last 1000 photos in the cloud in the last 30 days.
You can even see it on AppleTV!
- iTunes in the iCloud – anything you bought on iTunes download to any device with no additional charges.
iCloud is all FREE! 5GB storage limit.
One more thing
iTunes Match
Will upgrade your songs to 256 kbps AAC DRM Free and store it in the cloud.
Costs $24.99/year – 5000 songs.
iCloud developer beta today – runs on iOS 4.3.
Sadly, no new iPhone announcements made!
