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3:14: apparently no "one more thing." Later, I heard Apple will not use Google for search, but Bing (MSFT).
2:35: off to pick up the granddaughters at school -- I will miss "the one more thing" --
2:26: demo of iOS 7 --
2:24: Craig back on stage; iOS 7, the biggest iOS change since the iPhone; typography; parallax tracks your motion; carries over across the system;
2:18: video of iOS 7; Jony Ive narrates; translucency; responds to movement; standing ovation; folks are really, really impressed; so many features I was not even aware of -- how important the features were to the developers.
2:18: iOS 7 introduced today; biggest change in iOS since the iPhone was introduced;
2:13: iOS -- huge audience excitement; Apple iOS #1; iPhone users use their smartphones much more than the other phones; same with tablets; important for advertisers to know; iPad and iPhone -- where most mobile shopping is done; customer satisfaction #1 -- 9 consecutive times; first time that has ever been done; IOS satisfaction "off the charts" -- at 97%; "very satisfied" -- 73% (25 points better than Android); only 53% for Windows Phone; more than a third of Android users are using a 2010 version; iOS -- 93% using most recent version;
2:07: iWork in iCloud -- demo. Will make my life easier when blogging; can do spreadsheets inside the browser; don't need Excel;
2:04: iCloud -- 300 million iCloud accounts; FaceBook took five years to reach this number; fastest growing cloud service; can send 8 billion e-mail notifications (more than NSA can track?); iWork for iCloud; create documents in a browser (what I've always wanted). [Later, Apple does not provide numbers but it is estimated that there are now "billions" of iCloud accounts. -- November 8, 2025.]
1:56: Mac Pro: being worked on -- for creative folks -- desktop; revolutionary; "can't innovate any more? my ass." This is going to blow the socks off folks. In the shape of the cylinder. New INTC chip. Internal storage based on flash; 2.5x faster than any previous flash; 10x faster than any fastest hard drive; Thunderbolt 2; backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 1; first Mac ever to have dual workstation GPUs as standard; supports 4K display; up to three 4K displays; wow, about a third the size of the previous desktop; 1/8th volume; the future of the Pro desktop; later this year; designed in California; assembled in the USA;
1:54: new AirPort Extreme; new MacBook Air; twice the storage, same price; longer battery life; ships today;
1:51: MacBook Air -- updated an entire new line -- all-day battery life -- new 4th gen core -- INTC -- 11-inch, 5 hours to 9 hours; 13-inch, 9 hours to 12 hours of battery life;
1:50: Bottom line -- Mavericks now puts all this stuff on all platforms, including the Mac, not just the tablet or the iPhone
1:46: Demo; yes, I will be buying a new, large Apple monitor/display.
1:44: iBooks being brought to the Mac. [Later: Apple "moved" the iBook to the Mac when it
discontinued the iBook line and replaced it with the new Intel-based
MacBook in May 2006, as part of the company's broader transition from
PowerPC to Intel processors. The iBook's successor was the MacBook,
which was released to complete the transition of Apple's entire laptop
lineup to Intel chips.]
1:43: Maps -- set up route on Mac; one click to your iPhone with turn-by-turn directions
1:42: Calendar -- adds location, travel time, and weather
1:41: Notifications -- pops up on desktop without having to go to the application; can reply directly from the desktop notification without having to go to application;
1:39: iCloud Keychain --
1:30: Back to OSX Mavericks -- battery life innovation
- Coalescing: CPU activity: power optimization; 72% less CPU activity
- Compressed memory:1.5x faster than Mountain Lion
- Safari: private browsing; block 3rd-party -- innovations in the past by Safari; now new innovations; can move from article to article without clicking; improvements over Chrome, Firefox; uses one-third the power that Firefox uses -- so if you want to extend battery life between charging using Safari, not Firefox; searching through messages, super-fast; "glassy-smooth"; power usage: can't be articulated -- need to see the demo;
1:22: OSX Mavericks --
- Finder Tabs: wow, tabs look just like iTunes; can take full screen
- Tags: when you save a document, you can tag it and will be easily found in Finder
- Multiple Displays: menus across multiple displays; summon your dock on multiple displays (more on this later, if I remember) -- this is really, really incredible.
1:20: 28 million copies of Mountain Lion, IOS X latest version. > 30% of uses have more recent version of IOS X; Windows struggling to get to 5%.
1:18: the Mac: 72 million installed base; #1 desktop in the US; MacBook is the #1 notebook in the US; average annual growth rate of Mac, 15% vs 3% for the PC; 5-yr total growth, 100% vs 18% for the PC
1:12: "anki" -- robotics and artificial intelligence company; launching their company on stage at the WWDC. CEO of "anki": robotics from labs at Carnegie Mellon; five years of work; this is incredible; programmed racing cars; gaming to a whole new level;
1:10: Update on the App Store. 575 million credit card accounts at the Apple App Store; more than any other internet "store." Click and buy.
1:09: Of course the video is incredible -- The Berlin (Germany) Apple Store. Tim is back.
1:04: Tim Cook is on stage.
1:02: WWDC kicks off with video presentation.
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