The opening of the WWDC exhibition lasted only 2 hours, but during this time a lot of information was voiced, useful for both users of Apple devices and developers. The guys from TechCrunch, like me, have already read hundreds of articles on the Internet, filled with water, beautiful images and a bunch of lyrics about iOS5, OS X Lion, iCloud all the same decided to make a list with the main and not so much points that you could miss. So, not indifferent I ask under cat.
Mac actively use 54 million users
73% of Mac users prefer a laptop
Photo Booth on OS X Lion can detect faces for better photos.
App Store ranks first in the world for the sale of software
Starting with OS X Lion, applications will be able to receive Push notifications and have In-App purchases (a mechanism for selling applications and features from their application), as in the iPhone
When updating applications, now you download only an update, not a completely new application.
OS X Lion is now available only in the Mac App Store, Apple abandoned cd
OS X Lion will occupy about 4 gigabytes (no more than an HD movie quality)
25 million iPads were sold in just 14 months
15 billion downloads of songs on iTunes
ITunes has 18 million songs in its library.
130 million iBooks downloaded in just over a year
Now in the App Store more than 425,000 applications, 90,000 of them are made for iPad
14 billion downloads of applications in less than 3 years (Yes, applications will soon overtake music by downloads)
Apple paid about $ 2.5 billion to application developers — that's $ 1.5 billion more than last year.
Now iTunes has 225 million registered accounts with a confirmed credit card.
100 billion push notifications sent
With Newsstand, magazine and newspaper apps can now download new content in the background.
Integration with Twitter made it clear why iOS Software Vice President Scott Forstall started a Twitter account forstall. He used it for the presentation of opportunities, but still does not use it and has 0 tweets
Integration with Twitter allows you to update photos in contacts to userpiki from twi
2/3 of all mobile traffic is surfing through Safari
Now in iOS Safari there is a Reader function, like its big brother, which allows you to view the page as conveniently as possible for reading
iOS 5 Safari for iPad got tabs
A geo reference appeared in the Reminders scheduler. Now a reminder can appear when you come or leave a certain place.
iPhone 4 is about to become the most used camera on Flickr
Double click on Home with the locked screen, now immediately shows the camera icon for quick access
To use the features do not need to enter the code if it is installed, but further shooting and viewing of new photos will not be able to go
Side buttons for sound now allow you to take pictures when you use the camera
A simplified photo editor appeared in the camera.
Now you can format the text in letters.
When you read a letter on the iPad in vertical mode, you can swipe to the right to return to the list of letters
The built-in dictionary in the iBook now works as a system-wide and can be used by other applications.
IPad keyboard can now be divided into two parts for easy typing with your thumbs
The iPod app on the iPhone is now divided into Music and Videos apps, like in iPod touch.
iPad Music completely redone
After 9 months, Game Center has 50 million users (for example, Xbox Live, which exists for 8 years, has only 30 million)
Step-by-step games (such as Scrabble) are fully supported in the Game Center (previously, developers had to do a lot of work to integrate)
iMessages (an application for transferring messages between owners of iOS devices) can notify you of reading - you can see if your message has been read and at what time.
iMessages works in WiFi and 3G networks
iMessages was written based on push notification infrastructure
iOS Weather updates the weather every hour.
The flash in the iPhone 4 can now notify about new messages
Appeared wireless broadcast iPad 2 on Apple TV (previously required HDMI adapter)
Synchronization via WiFi in iTunes (while also making a backup)
New gesture in iOS 5 to switch between running applications
Developers have access to the flash in the iPhone 4
Developers can change the screen backlight in applications (as in iBooks)
You can keep shared calendars with iCloud
Mail has anti-spam feature (no ads)
You can configure the unloading of the backup device in iCloud. This happens every day automatically if you are connected to WiFi
Documents in iCloud remember their state and at the next opening they open in the same place.
iCloud has API available for developers
Photo Stream (automatic photo upload to iCloud) is built into existing applications (Photos on iOS, iPhoto on OS X)
Photo Stream is also available on Apple TV.
You can use up to 10 devices in the iTunes cloud.
Apple provides free 5 gigabytes on iCloud. This place is used for backups, documents and letters. The space allocated to the music purchased in iTunes and photos - unlimited
You can purchase more space, but no details yet.
If iTunes Match (a service that allows you to listen to music directly from the cloud) cannot find a song on the iTunes server, it is loaded there for you.
All songs found using iTunes Match are automatically compressed to AAC format with 256 kbps
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