Baashi Posted June 6, 2011 To be rolled out today: OS X Lion iOS 5 iCloud -- rumors are Mobileme will be relagated to the freebie land Live blog @ MacLife, Tuaw, Gizmodo, Endgadget websites. 10am here in the pacific time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Zack Posted June 6, 2011 I am waiting for it, looking forward to all these great stuff. For a man that is on a leave of absence, Steve makes whole alot of noise. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baashi Posted June 6, 2011 Noise? Afka you ku qaloocan ninyahow. I guess you are not a fanboy The man is a genuis of the Edison caliber. He will go down in history as a man instrumental in taking human-machine interface to new heights. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Libaax-Sankataabte Posted June 6, 2011 Interesting updates for iOS. Not sure about the iCloud hype. SOURCE: http://www.macworld.com/article/160322/2011/06/ios5.html Apple senior vice president Scott Forstall covered 10 new features out of the 200 planned for iOS 5. Notifications Perhaps no new iOS 5 feature will be more welcome than its overhauled notifications system. The days of the modal, one-at-a-time pop-up alert are ending, and Forstall’s declaration that iOS 5 includes an upgrade brought an uproarious cheer from the developers in attendance. iOS 5 introduces something Apple calls Notification Center, a single place that combines all of your notifications. You can access Notification Center at any time with a single swipe down from the menu at the top of your device—a gesture which, it must be said, achieves the same effect already on Android phones. Notification Center then folds down, including missed calls, voicemails, text messages, push notifications, and even stock and weather updates. You can dismiss Notification Center and get back to your app, or quickly switch to a notifying app instead. You clear notifications out by tapping a small X. The iOS lock screen now handles notifications better, too. You can swipe across notifications on the lock screen to go directly to the appropriate app. For example, Forstall swiped across a text message notification on his lock screen, which took him directly to that text in the Messages app. PC Free Forstall declared that folks want to buy iPhones and iPads without needing computers to tether them to. Starting with iOS 5, new iPhones will display a Welcome setup screen, allowing you to activate your device on the device itself. Software updates—as in, new iOS updates—are now over the air, too—no more iTunes syncing to get the latest incarnation of the operating system. You also no longer need to plug your iOS device into your computer to sync; with delta updates (which include only the minimal amount of changed code necessary) will make iOS app updates much smaller. Forstall said that, as part of cutting the PC cord, Apple looked to eliminate those situations where folks go back to their computers instead of using their iOS devices. Various tasks—like adding and deleting Calendars, creating and deleting mailboxes, and the already-covered photo editing tools—are all introduced in iOS 5 to help eliminate the PC as an iOS requirement. iMessage As rumored in the run-up to the WWDC keynote, iOS 5 includes a new messaging app called iMessage. It sends texts, photos, videos, contacts, and allows for group messaging too. But it introduces new features like delivery receipts, read receipts, and indications when your contacts are typing back to you. Messages are delivered to all your iOS devices, and they work over both 3G and Wi-Fi—and they’re all encrypted, to boot. It’s a new take on—and a replacement for—SMS, MMS, and even mobile instant messaging. Like the Blackberry Messenger service—which is limited to Blackberry users, iMessage will be limited to contacts using iOS devices. And, of course, iMessage uses the new notifications system. Safari Forstall said that Safari’s open-source Web engine powers 90 percent of mobile browsing. Among Safari’s new features is a feature called Reader. Like the similar functionality in the desktop version of Safari, Reader lets you get (and share) all the content of an article, removing navigation, ads, and other content—leaving only the text. Also new is Reading List, which is a simple and convenient way to save a story for later reading. Items in your Reading List are shared with your Mac or PC version of Safari, too. Tabbed Browsing makes its first appearance in the official Safari app in iOS 5, too. Tabs look much as you’d expect—that is, just like they do in Safari on the desktop. It appears that tabbed browsing is limited to the iPad at this time, likely due to space constraints on Apple’s smaller iOS devices. Newsstand Forstall said that “most of the major publishers of magazines and many newspapers” have signed up for App Store subscriptions already. Newsstand is a devoted app for accessing and downloading those periodicals. The app looks a lot like iBooks, only it focuses on magazines and newspapers instead. New issues that arrive overnight will download automatically. Twitter According to Forstall, people send more than 1 billion tweets per week. New in iOS 5 is single sign-on support for Twitter; you configure your login details in the Settings app. Theoretically, then, third-party Twitter clients should be able to access your login details without requiring separate sign-in within their apps. Several of Apple’s own apps, like Camera Photos, Safari, YouTube, and Maps will all support direct Twitter integration, so that you can quickly post data from those apps to your Twitter account. You can even use Twitter to automatically update your contacts’ photos and Twitter usernames. Reminders Though the App Store is rife with reminder apps—or, perhaps, because it’s rife with such apps—Apple is introducing a new Reminders app with iOS 5. The app supports multiple lists, and to-dos can be both date- and location-stamped. Those locations are particularly powerful—your device can remind you about a task when you reach a specific location, or depart from one. Reminders are also searchable, and will sync with iCal on the Mac and Outlook on Windows. Camera iPhone 4’s camera is the second-most popular camera on Flickr, and the most popular phone camera, Forstall said. iOS 5 makes it faster to take photos from the lock screen by reimplementing a shortcut that predates iOS 4: Double-tap the Home button from that lock screen to quickly launch theCamera app. And, in a shocking turnaround, you can now use the volume buttons on the phone to take photos, instead of the on-screen shutter button. (Apple previously rejected apps that implemented such feature.) The Camera app will also sport optional grid lines to better compose your photographs, and pinch to zoom (for digital zooming). Also built into the app are editing features like crop, rotate, red-eye reduction, and iPhoto’s one-click enhance. Mail Mail, Forstall said, is one of the most-used apps across iOS devices. In iOS 5, Mail gets rich text formatting (think bold, italics, underline), the ability to drag addresses between To and CC fields, support for flagging, and more. The biggest of that “more” is full-text searching, which Apple says will include messages not downloaded onto the device but present on the server. On the iPad, you can now swipe to bring up the inbox when in portrait mode. Exchange customers get some love, too, with iOS 5’s new support for S/MIME. A lock icon will appear in the To field to indicate when you’re sending encrypted messages. During his Mail demo, Forstall mentioned that the built-in dictionary from iBooks—where you tap and hold to see a word’s definition—is available system-wide in iOS 5. Another new system-wide feature Forstall mentioned was a new split keyboard variant. You’ll be able to tap and drag a keyboard button to move it, and your setting is respected across all apps. Game Center iOS is the most popular gaming platform on the planet, Forstall said. It’s now nine months old, with 50 million users. (Xbox Live is eight years old, and has 30 million users.) The Game Center app is getting more social, allowing you to share your own member photo, compare yourself against friends using achievement points, see friends of friends, recommended friends, and recommended games, too. And Game Center in iOS 5 offers support for turn-based games, built right into the OS. There’s more! According to Forstall, those are just ten of 200 new features in iOS 5. He showed a slide packed with several: AirPlay mirroring to your television wirelessly, Wi-Fi iTunes sync, new multitouch gestures to flick between apps, a new iPad Music app, personal dictionary support, hourly weather forecasts, typing shortcuts, alternate routes in maps, voiceover options, wireless sync for Exchange tasks, FaceTime mid-call invitation alerts, improved FaceTime video quality, mass configuration, real-time stock quotes, custom vibration patterns, accessible input for mobility, improved offline support in Mail, voiceover item chooser, an option to speak text, and finally, the long-awaited ability to set tones for voicemail, mail, and calendar alerts. Forstall said that iOS 5 will ship to customers this fall, and it will support all iPads, the iPhone 3GS and 4, and the third- and fourth-generation iPod touch. We’ll have more information on iOS 5 later on Monday. Updated at 11:40 a.m. PT with more information throughout the story. 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Gheelle.T Posted June 6, 2011 Good staff. Thanks for the update Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacpher Posted June 6, 2011 Cool. Odaga looked qalfoof in those pictures today. Wow for seeing some of these updates already implemented. The app store is now updated to show Purchased column reflecting all apps bought by the user logged on to the device. It shows the cloud icon next to the apps were purchased but not installed, offering you to simply download them without prompting to re-enter id/password. Totally cool. However, On the Not On this Device, it lists stuff you downloaded/bought over the years including all those lite apps and other crap apps you thought were good but gotten rid of. Not so sure. Is it too soon to ask a way to edit the list or categorize because no one wants to see or go through a long list of all the lite apps they downloaded to test drive before buying the full app? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Zack Posted June 7, 2011 Baashi;726550 wrote: Noise? Afka you ku qaloocan ninyahow . I guess you are not a fanboy the man is a genuis of the Edison caliber. He will go down in history as a man instrumental in taking human-machine interface to new heights. Baashi I am actually a fan of the Syrian descent ee afka ima qaloocayo. The dude is exceptionally genius and a great innovator. But seriously, the man has been ooo for months and he is still on the top, waa mucjiso ninku. As far as the new announcements at WWDC, there are many things to like but nothing Steve announced today can be considered a "game changer". The iCloud seems to be the biggest one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Som@li Posted June 7, 2011 Very bad news for Ms Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Som@li Posted June 7, 2011 The Zack;726639 wrote: Baashi . iCloud seems to be the biggest one. Cloud computing is a big thing, and other big players are in it. the biggest change is for companies, not just individuals, abandon servers, and move to cloud computing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Zack Posted June 7, 2011 ^Exactly Dabshid. It would be awesome to move every thing to the cloud, however, this has pros and cons. Major pro: Capacity will be offloaded from local drives to the cloud thus no need to buy gigantic HDs any more. Major Con: Data will be more volunerable to attacks and could be lost much more easier. Remember the attack on Google where many lost their data? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baashi Posted June 7, 2011 Good stuff. I'm not pleased the fact that I have to wait till July though. Libaax iCloud is the thing. Actually IT is the headliner for the event...come to think of it. Guys I don't know if you watched the 2 hour event as I did but the gist of Steve's message is: the era of PC is over. He cut the umbilical chord of the PC -- memory -- today. With iCloud, iPad is now equivalent to PC. Have you noticed the clipping icon where iPhone's cord is cut to bring that --the fact that folks won't need PC anymore -- to home. Business acumen with great insight of everything engineering/technology is what makes Steve head and shoulder above the rest of the industry leaders. Good for him. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Qorax Posted June 7, 2011 They have taken Cloud system to the next level. All you data, pics & apps will be automatically synched to the icloud system and be pushed back to all of your devices(iphone , ipad etc) automatically . i.e. You take a picture with your iPhone and magically all your other devices will have that picture All that data will be held in these massive servers for FREE: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
