Apple Worldwide Developer Conference 2011
Steve Jobs is not going to miss this WWDC 2011, but I am still surprise that Steve Jobs presenting the keynote. Steve Jobs suppose to take medical of absence since January 2011 for unknown period of time. Steve Jobs appear on the stage to introduce iPad 2 this March.
For the opening of WWDC 2011, Steve Jobs is presenting the keynote again, the keynote contents like iCloud was announced officially much earlier this time.
A brief summary of the keynote. I may have skipped some features and products. Apple has release the keynote video.
If you lazy to watch the video, there is a live blog from Engaget.
The keynote talks about OS X (10.7) Lion, iOS 5 and iClouds. Lion and iOS 5 was presented by other managers, iClouds keynote by Steve Jobs himself.
Mac OS X Lion. 250 new features, they just pick 10 and shows it. I just pick a few. Before that, just a few statistic (from Apple keynote), Mac has grown for the pass few years, but PC shrink 1 percent last quarter.
Lion use more multi-touch gesture like scroll and zoom. Not on the display screen but on (notebook) trackpad. It should works on Magic Trackpad, if you are using the desktop.
Be it multi-touch gesture, Mac App Store or Launch Pad, Lion brings the user experience from iOS to the desktop. You may have probably get the sneak peak of Lion in the last year 'Back to the Mac' media event.
Autosave and version. Autosave is not new, it save and keep the old version. Modified history is not stored on the document. That means if you send the document to the others, they can not check the modified history from the receiving document file.
AirDrop (is AirDrop an Apple version of Dropbox?). Share document within users on the same network.
Lion will be available (only) through Mac App Store for USD29.99 (than normal price $129), available July 2011.
iOS 5, has new notification system, which looks like Android. Apple should came out something different, not just looks like Android notification system.
iOS 5 with build in twitter integration, reminders (todo list). Apple made some enhancement to the camera features, like using the volume button as the press and shot button, the crowd seems to like it.
iOS 5 is PC free. You don't need a PC to sync iOS 5 devices. Software updates are OTA (Over the air).
After watching WWDC 2011 keynote, there are people saying on the internet, Apple is going to put a few companies out of business, companies like twitter client, dropbox, BlackBerry, Instapaper, Evernote, Remember the Milk etc. I think companies need to improve themselves to compete and survive.
iCloud. Apple is going to sync data on iOS devices to the internet, and name it iCloud. iCloud will replace mobileme, and iCloud is free (for 5G storage).
Apple already have a mobileme service which sync contact, calendar and mail data information to the internet, iCloud sync these data and more.
iCloud sync and backup data includes apps, iBooks, photos, setting, apps data, documents. Photos will be keep in iCloud for 30 days and it will sync to all your devices.
One more thing... small thing, iTunes match.
iTunes match is a service to 'backup' your songs to iCloud, it cost $24.99 for 5,000 songs per year. It will take a long time like weeks to upload your music data to iCloud, Apple write a software to scan and match the songs with Apple Music Store library. It doesn't upload the music if is already in the library, it only upload those which is not.
iCloud service will be available when the i-device upgrade to iOS 5.
If you check your App Store, you already can down your purchased applications from iCloud.
That's it for the keynote summary.
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