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iOS 6 has over 200 new features, including the following: Siri will now be able to report sports scores and player stats, team rankings and more.
Phil Schiller introduced new notebook changes, specifically: MacBook Air gets a faster CPU using Intel Ivy Bridge at 2.0 Ghz dual core i7 and 8GB ram but noticeable 512GB of SSD! And it offers 500MB read speed. Finally USB 3.0 will be supported! 60% faster graphics, too. Shipping today, too!
MacBook Pro gets some love, too. Ivy Bridge up to 2.7GHz quad core i7. 60% faster graphics, too, and USB 3.0, also shipping today. The big unveil was a new next generation MacBook Pro.
Tim Cook went through the numbers. Over 60 countries represented at WWDC. Over 400 million iTunes store customers, over 650,000 apps. 225,000 specifically for the iPad. 30 billion downloaded apps and counting and over five billion dollars paid out to developers!
We are here at Apple's worldwide developers conference aka WWDC and the excitement is in the air. Already, from the banners hanging in the hall we know to look for a new version of iOS, specifically iOS 6. But once inside on my way to the keynote, there were more banners introducing features like Messages for Mac OS Mountain Lion, so apple users can communicate by text messaging using all of their apple devices, and avoid carrier fees.
"It's Mac's turn to talk."
So says the banner outside the keynote. If AT&T and other carriers aren't already taking a beating from Apple's iMessage which let's you send text messages for free other iOS users, now, with Mountain Lion, Apple Mac computers can join in on the free fun!
Another year, another WWDC but alas, this time no Steve Jobs. I'm sure it will be eventful but I'm sure it will be bittersweet this year.
I'm expecting a revamp of the MacBook Pro line, but I would also like to see updates to the Mac mini and Mac Pro. A new iPhone might be premature, as we all expected one at WWDC a year ago, but it was not to be. It seems like the Fall is the cycle Apple is working from, for iPhone updates.
Kickstarter is unleashing new products at a record clip. Ideas that might never have seen the light of day are being funded, before mass production, and even influenced directly by those backers. The latest example is Twig.
I have a good friend who is a dentist, and he wanted to put an iPad in front of patients so they could be entertained during longer procedures. So when I saw the SpiderArm, I figured it would be just the ticket. Indeed, with all of the options, and the sleek white design, the SpiderArm looks just like a typical dental tool.
The iZON from stem is a beautiful, functional Wi-Fi enabled security camera / NannyCam. In fact, it looks like it was designed by Apple, which is high praise indeed. It's a small cylinder, reminiscent of Apple's original iSight external camera.
The removable convex base connects to the iZON via magnets, allowing for some flexible angles.
I dropped my iPhone the other day. Needless to say, I didn't like it. It seemed to happen in slow motion. Sure, iCloud would have a backup of most of my data but, as an app developer, even a day or two's loss of use of my iPhone would be difficult, and expensive.
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