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iPhone TIPS: WWDC 2012 Game Changing News?
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| Will game changer Apple change another business or industry. |
-by iPhone-Tips-Tricks.com - Few hours to go for the annual WWDC keynote. Traditionally the place to unveil new Apple products. Some products are as expected, but sometimes there is a surprise. So what could be the surprise if there is one to give away? What we do expect is iOS6, Siri enhanced, new Macs, Mountain Lion. And maybe an Apple TV SDK to create great apps for Apple TV owners? How about new partnerships or game changing news? My wish for example is that Apple utilizes their cash (they have a lot of them) to reinvent a business like they did with the music industry (iTunes, iPod) and mobile phone industry (iPhone, iPad). Do I have suggestions? Yes, how about buy some big mobile network operators, stick a Apple logo on it and importantly: make them provide 3G/4G internet service for a fixed price a month without the unreasonable hidden costs. Let say you buy an iPhone 4S for the full price and have great 3G/4G network access without up and down limits for $10 a month? why not, everyone would go for that right. I really hope Apple will do that one day, and maybe not today but soon, change another industry to make things better and better worth the money. We wait and see not today then tomorrow.
iPhone TIPS: WWDC 2011 Summary Highlights
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| Apple iCloud will be Free. Expected in the fall 2011. photo via Engadget.com |
[UPDATE] Watch the streaming video HERE if you have 2 hours time left, otherwise read the rest of the post :-)
These are my lists of observations during the WWDC 2011 keynote address given by Steve Jobs and others. By the way, no iPhone 4S today, software only and nothing released today.Lion Mac OSX
- Lion ships in July
- Developer preview available today
- Supports all your authorized Macs
- $29.99 for an upgrade,
- upgrade via Mac Appstore 'Buy' button
- 4 Gibyte download, in place upgrade
- no reboots
- No scrollbars, only when you scroll
- Photo booth has face detection fun features to show off
- Launchpad, pinch to have all your apps arranged as if it is iOS
- Resume: Launch app and Lion brings you right back where you have stopped.
- Auto Save: Document versioning feature, like the Time machine interface
- Airdrop: peer-to-peer file sharing, auto-setup, auto discover, easy to use over Wifi.
- Mail: Conversation view
- Windows migration support
iOS 5
- Ships this fall (no exact month named)
- The SDK is available today.
- Supports iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, iPad2, iPod Touch (3rd and 4th gen)
- Notification Center: Aggregates all notifications in one view (mail, sms, missed calls)
- Notification in Lockscreen and inside games
- News stand: A magazine rack and auto downloads new issues
- Twitter: integrates Twitter deep inside iOS, twitter from any app.
- Safari Reader: button in the address bar, removes all distractions.
- Safari: tabbed browser
- Reminders: Geo location based reminders, alert when entering or leaving geolocation
- Camera: shutter button now in lockscreen and volume up button, instant edit your photo's after you shot it
- Mail: Rich text formatting, draggable addresses, flag messages, built-in dictionary
- Secure Mail: S/MIME support
- Keyboard customization: split keyboard in two pieces
- Cut the cables and do it over the air: activate device OTA, iOS update OTA,
- Game center: enhancements
- iMessage: New app, send message to any iOS device wirelessly, encryption
- Airplay mirroring: Mirror iPad screen to HDTV
iCloud
- "iCloud stores your content in the cloud and wirelessly pushes it to ALL your devices. It automatically uploads it, stores it, and pushes it to all you devices"
- iCloud is Free
- iCloud replaces MobileMe
- Ships together with iOS 5 (this fall)
- Supported: Contacts, Calendar, Mail, Apps Store apps, iBooks books,
- PC-less: Back-up device every day to the cloud (wifi), restores to new devices
- iWorks: pages, keynote, numbers. Documents are available to any device.
- Photo stream: Any photo taken are pushed to the cloud, then sent to other devices automatically.
- Photo storage: iCloud stores each photo 30 days, device store 1000 photos and store all photos on your Mac or PC
- iTunes: buy tune once, play same tune on all devices fro free.
- iTunes Match: Matches your local tune collection and make the same tune collection available in the cloud, drm free, 256 kbps AAC without uploading because it is already there.
- iTunes Match big advantage compared to Amazon and Google Music: It takes minutes in stead of weeks to upload your tune collection. Annual price for iTunes Match is $25
iPhone TIPS: Santa 2011 brings iPad 3 LTE Retina ?
Q: What is going on? A: The rumor that Apple is shipping the iPad 3 this year 2011 is back! Q: What are the predictions this time? A: In February this year we noticed Daring Fireball's 6 months forward predictions. And those predictions still can come out correctly:
"...So, here’s my guess at Apple’s iPad plans for 2011:
An iPad 2, fairly soon. Say, a March announcement, shipping in the first week of April. Faster, more RAM, maybe more storage, thinner and lighter, a front-facing camera.1 Running iOS 4.3.
iOS 5, announced at a developer event in March, shipping in June.
iPad 3, shipping in September, announced at the annual iPod event. Running iOS 5.1, same as the next-generation iPod Touch.
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Today, the wall street journal blog [link] quotes the suggestion from a Hong Kong based source named CLSA, which suggests an iPad 3 release before Christmas 2011.
wsj quotes:
“While most vendors appear fixated on matching the specs and features of iPad2, our checks suggest Apple will release iPad3 in time for the holiday season, sporting a better display and LTE capabilities.”
A lot of people who are following Apple for years are in doubt of course. Traditionally there is 1 iPhone, 1 iPad and 1 iPod announcement a year. "Once a Year". A logical update pattern is: in March an iPad, in June an iPhone and in September an iPod. And another iPad 3 this year will break this pattern. However, we all know that the competition (Android) is getting stronger. To make the competition harder to keep up with Apple, this could be a nice 'rumored' move. The mentioned LTE capabilities is a about a faster radio for faster internet speeds, and we know there are providers investing in this new Long Term Evolution, but this technology is not in place in common yet. Because there are huge capacity problems with the current GSM 3G UMTS HSDPA radio net, caused by the explosive grow of "App-phones", it is expected that all big providers must invest in an upgrade to a faster LTE network. Otherwise, there is simply 'no service'
Also, I know as iPhone 4 owner, that an iPad 1 or iPad 2 without a Retina high resolution display is like watching an old-school VGA tube with low resolution pictures. A great iPad screen will push the sales and convince iPad 1 owners to upgrade and pull anyone in doubt over the line for the iPad '3'. Lets see the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 [SOLD OUT] first, which starts from June 6-10 at San Francisco, Moscone.
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