These are my notes from the Apple WWDC 2011 Keynote which I’ll sort out later:
Apple Mac OS X Lion
- over 250 new features
- multi-touch gestures
- Scrollbars appear only when you scroll
- full screen applications
- new control in the upper-right to go full
- Safari, iMovie, iCal, Preview, Photo Booth, etc.
- Mission Control
- Unifies Expose and Spaces
- Shows all apps and all the documents
- All your spaces up top, all your widgets on the upper-left
- Multiple views of apps
- three-finger swipe upward
- Hit spacebar while hovering over any app will give you a zoomed-in preview.
- upper-right to create a new Space
- click and drag any window you want into the space
- click the X in the upper-left to delete a Space and the windows all fly right back to the main view.
- Mac App Store
- Now built-in to Lion
- in-app purchases
- push notifications
- built-in sandboxing mode to boost security
- delta updates
- Launchpad
- pinch gesture and all your apps appear, multiple pages in a big grid
- Resume
- brings you right back to where you left off in an app
- Windows, selections, tools, even highlighted text are just the way you left them
- system-wide, including window placement, Spaces, everything
- Auto Save
- automatically save the document without doing anything
- Up on the menu bar, select the document name to prevent auto-saves from happening, or revert to how it was when you opened it.
- easily duplicate, creating a second one
- only the deltas are saved
- switch between them, copy / paste from one to the other, time-machine on documents
- Airdrop
- Peer to peer Wifi
- Auto discovery and setup
- Confirm to send and receive
- Fully encrypted transfer
- Mail
- new search suggestions
- create rules based on searches
- new conversation view. Shows all the messages all inline.
- favorites bar — just click to get to whatever folder you’re most often in.
- search for people, or something more general, or select whether to search in the body, the subject
- suggest e-mail subjects to search for
- Windows Migration assistant, FileVault 2, FaceTime is built in, Lion Server add-on
- 3,000 new APIs
- Lion will be available only in the App Store
- 4GB download
- Installs in-place
- All your authorized Macs
- $29.99 to upgrade
- Available in July
iOS 5
- Over 1,500 new APIs
- 200 new user features
- Notifications
- Notification Center
- accessed by swiping down from the top
- Not persistent
- an animation up top that swivels down when notification comes in
- unobtrusive and goes away after a moment
- on the lock screen as well
- slide across any of them to go straight to the app
- To clear a notification, just tap on the little X to the right and it disappears.
- Newsstand
- subscriptions are automatically downloaded and placed on the Newsstand
- integrated with the home screen
- New issues are now automatically downloaded in the background, available offline
- Twitter
- Single sign-on.
- Jump into Settings, add in your details, and you’re configured for Twitter
- Those credentials are then saved and can be (optionally) shared with any app that requests them
- Integrated with many apps, including Camera and Photos. Just tap the action button, hit “Tweet” and it’s attached
- send articles from Safari and locations from Maps
- Contacts Integration
- Safari
- Safari Reader
- A new button in the browser
- All the distractions are gone, all the junk, just text in a single, scrolling story
- e-mail the contents of the story too, not just the link
- Reading List
- a simple way to read it later
- access those you’ve tagged for later on multiple devices
- Tabbed browsing
- Twitter integration
- Safari Reader
- Reminders
- store lists of things, assign a reminder to any dates, and you can even assign a location.
- sync across devices, and with Cal
- Camera updates
- Camera button on the lock screen
- If you have a passcode set, you can take a new photo without entering it.
- volume up button to take pictures now
- pinch-to-zoom right in the app
- AE/AF lock
- crop, rotate, reduce red-eye, one click enhance
- Mail
- Indentation control
- Rich Text Formatting
- Draggable addresses
- Search entire message
- Flag messages
- S/MIME
- a built-in dictionary that’s a service across the OS
- tap “Define” in the popup, and you’re in a dictionary
- New keyboard
- grab it with your thumbs and go up and it splits
- PC Free
- setup and activate your device right on the device
- software updates OTA
- delta updates OTA
- create & delete calendars right from iOS
- improved photo editing
- create and delete mailboxes from iOS
- sync iTunes library over WiFi
- Game Center
- Achievement Points
- Friend discovery
- Friends of friends
- Game discovery
- Turn-based games
- Game downloads
- iMessage
- New message service between iOS users
- Delivery receipts
- Read receipts
- Typing indication
- Pushed to all devices
- 3G & Wi-Fi
- New multi-tasking gestures
- iOS 5 will be available this fall
- iOS 5 will be available on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, iPad 2, iPod touch (3rd and 4th gen)
iCloud
- iCloud stores your content, and wirelessly pushes it to all your devices
- iCloud is integrated with your apps, so everything happens automatically
- Contacts added in any device are pushed to the cloud and then sync’d down to all the other devices
- Calendars works about the same, make any changes and they get pushed.
- Share your calendars with other users
- Mail account @me.com
- New messages push to all your device
- Inbox and folders kept up-to-date on all devices
- No ads
- Free
- Automatic daily backups to iCloud over Wi-Fi
- Purchased music, apps, & books
- Camera roll (photos & videos)
- Device settings
- App data
- Documents in the Cloud
- Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
- Apps can store documents in iCloud
- iCloud pushes documents to user’s devices automatically
- Documents update on all devices when changed on any device
- iCloud Storage APIs
- Documents
- Key-value data
- All iOS devices
- Macs & PCs too!
- Photostream
- in Photos as a separate album
- iPhoto on Mac, Pictures folder on PC, Macs & PCs store all photos
- Photostream on Apple TV
- store the last 1,000 photos
- photos are kept for 30 days
- Photos you take or import upload to iCloud
- iCloud pushes photos to all your devices
- Works over Wi-Fi
- iTunes in the Cloud
- look at your purchased songs and albums
- download individual songs.
- Anything I’ve bought I can now download to any of my devices at no additional charge.
- no charge for multiple downloads to different devices.
- Music purchased from iTunes
- High quality – 256 kbps AAC
- Up to 10 devices
- Free
- set up by default on new iOS 5 devices, and you’ll get 5GB of storage for mail, Documents & backup
- photo stream doesn’t count
- Available Today – iOS 4.3 beta
iTunes Match
- Takes just minutes to scan and match your library (no upload)
- Same benefits as music purchased from iTunes
- Matched songs upgraded to 256 kbps AAC DRM-free
- If any songs don’t match they’ll be uploaded for you.
- $24.99 per year.
