WWDC KeynoteLive Notes Liveblog

by Michael Sitver · Published June 10 · Updated July 30

Here are my live notes as I watch the keynote. This will later be used to sum things up.

sold out in 71 seconds
sold out in 71 seconds

retail

1 million daily visitors

407 stores in 14 countries

better tim cook – more comfortable

Tim Cook 2.0

370000 ipad apps

575 million accounts

most accounts with credit cards in the world

Paid developers $10 billion – 5 billion in 1 year

3x all other platforms 74% to 20% Android

anki – company launching at WWDC- everyday robots and AI using iOS devices – 5 years in the making

AnkiDrive

Cars react to their surroundings in real time- autonomous robots- apocolypse?

Car didn’t drive – Live Demo LOL – 40 seconds to fix

All controlled from iOS app – the brains, not just the controls

mission to block aiden the car – aiden uses “weapons” – the cars are trained to react- very cool – real world videogame

Macs – Annual growth rate 15 -3 over PC,

OSX

28 million copies of mountain lion – take that windows – 35% adoption to less than 5% Windows 8 adoption

Craig Federigi – this guy is a good presenter

10th Cat Release – first software delayed by dwindling group of cats

OSX Sea Lion – not

California Themed is the next 10 – OSX Mavericks – horrible name

extends battery life – finally

Finder Tabs – Great – like a browser – own location – no more 10 finder windows – makes moving and copying files easier – makes full screen better

Tagging – Give documents tags, found tags in sidebar – just like wordpress – why not just folders? Good for task management

Multiple Displays – Menus on both, docs on both, fullscreen on one doesn’t affect the other- pan spaces independently – common sense – split mission control – drag accross displays

Airplay – full power separate display

Safari – created private browsing

1.5 billion devices use webkit

Clean new homepage – with sidebar – like a personal website – Continuos scrolling

Twitter and linkedin likeshare in sidebar – see what people are sharing

shared memory research cache in safari- finally

Safari uses 1/3 of power of firefox and chrome is 1.6 times as much

Scrolling is faster in mail and everything – improved scrolling and optimized for retina

Covered windows suck up power – app nap – brilliant – doesn’t use unnecessary power for things you aren’t looking at – no more closing anything
- synced encrypted passwords and credit cards in autosuggest don’t love it – logs in for you – icloud keychain – at least you have to put in your own security code – not too bad
- Notifications – Respond directly from notification – delete, send message, etc, – App notifications on the mac
Notifications right on lock screen

autoupdate apps in background – finally

No more leather – Jony Ive got to calendar, and the whole operating system – autoawareness of things like weather on event date

Maps – better data, and maps is now on OSX – 3D maps

Turn-by-Turn Directions – send directions right to your iPhone in one click- can be added to apps with maps SDK

iBooks to the mac – finally! Books on your mac. Includes textbooks

Calendar Suggests locations, weather, etc (Tony’s pizza) – even travel time from last appointment. Adds travel time into calendar as block. notified when I need to leave

iBooks isn’t beautiful – I miss the paper, and bookshelves- despite whatever Jony Ive thinks

Interactive elements in ibooks are cool

Navigate by notes – built-in study cards

MAVERICKS IS SUCH A HORRIBLE NAME- very upsetting, but not too much of a problem

Developer preview today- Final release this fall – that’s not happening – developer account it is

Phil Schiller

Macbook Air- the ultimate everyday notebook

New line – all day battery life – very good

Uses 4th Generation Intel Haswell – not even released yet – 40% faster graphics and more energy efficient – 1 second wakeup – 30 day standby –

11 inch 5- 9 hour improvement

13 7 – 12 hours of battery life

10 Hour Movie playbook

45% faster flash memory

802.11 AC faster — 3X the performance – new airports that allow for these new benefits

airport time capsule, airport, small,

beamforming – enhances throughput

999 with 128 gig double the memory for same price 11 inch

100 cheaper 13 inch

shipping today

Environmentally friendly – except for the whole manufacturing thing 🙂

Sneak Peek – that doesn’t happen

Mac Pro – creative professionals rejoice – fastest most EXPANDABLE – good

A new concept

The future of the pro desktop

intense introduction – lights go out – like 1984 intensity – curved closeups – black makes everything look cool

Unified thermal core

New Generation Intel Xeon – 2X faster

ECC 1866 MHz DDR3 Fur channel controller – 2X the speed ram –

10X faster than any mac pro drive ever – 2.5x any apple harddrive ever

thunderbolt 2 – 20GPs throughput

528GPs Dual chip GPUs – 2.5x faster

Up to 4K displays- up to 3 built-in

Incredible

PCI Express

New Final cut pro coming to support such an incredible machine

Completely expandable

Half the height – tiny – 1/8 the volume. The entire top is a handle to rotate v- 4 usb 3, 6 firewire 2, gigabit ethernet – motion sensor to light up IO ports – insane

Coming this year

Built in the USA! Finally a computer built in the USA

Pixar got to use it in advance

300 million icloud users – took facebook 5 years to get this many

300,000,000 itunes in the cloud users- 35 billion downloads of content synced

240,000,000 on gamecenter (HMU thepresident)

800,000,000,000 imessages

7,400,000,000,000 push notifications

Deep integration of iWork and iCloud

new releases coming

iWork for iCloud – mac or PC – Google Docs Competitor? Yes

Full editing from directly in the browser – drag and drop. Works perfectly with word documents – shot at google docs and Microsoft

I’ll probably stick with Microsoft word, but this is impressive. I’m testing complex word documents as soon as possible. Keynote is certainly more powerful than Google Docs.

has IE and chrome – chooses chrome – I wonder why

Edited a keynote document on Windows 8 🙂

beta.icloud.com dev beta

iOS

600 iOS devices sold

97% iOS satisfaction

20 points happier than windows phone users – 25 points happier than android

93% using latest OS vs 33% on Android (Jellybean)

rough for developers more than users

iOS 7 – Even the font of the number shows Jony Ive Signatures

Ordeer to complexity – flatter – some looks nice, but some just looks old

The built-in iCons and new color pallete annoy me a bit. Translucency is nice. More animation is a nice touch.

All new depth gives three dimensional feel to photos and interface- reacts to movements – design receeds

More circular design elements

New photo app – very good looking – filters

The whole operating system looks artificial and cartoony

All-new transparent slide to unlock

bars replaced by circles – confusing to new users- not sure if this is permanent

Game Center is hideous – Mail looks nice – news stand looks nice too

Gone is the familiar settings panel

Pinch for weather overview with time – hoof ifrs

calendar brings same innovations as on mac

Messages look childish

Swiping in messages like sparrow is good

Wozniak in attendance

Multipage folders- up to hundreds of items – brilliant

Notifications has a today view of weather, calendar, stocks, birthdays – fantastic – From the lock screen- scary a bit – I hope it’s secured
- Control center- brightness, music, volume, wifi, camera, air drop – awesome – Great addition
Multitasking – called it – maintain battery life – multitasking for all apps – with great battery life -finally

Background activity for frequently used apps – and notices patterns like morning news checks – updates apps in the background

Swipe between running applications instead of searching through app icons – about time – not 2 up at once though

Safari is more full-screen based – smart search – unified bar for search, and URLs + iCloud Keychain-

SWIPE NAVIGATION – hope I can turn it off

One tap access on new tabs – how many tabs allowed – no longer limited to eight- finally – looks unlimited- icloud tabs for jumping to things you were looking at on your mac- reorder – that’s new

Flashlight built in to control center- kills a lot of apps, but it’s a good thing

Still hoping for a new iPad Mini
- Air Drop for iOS! Competes with samsung’s similar items – easy sharing with friends around you, from 3rd pary apps too – and airplay. Very positive addition
Peer to peer gaming – encrypted – that’s important.

Only supported by iPhone 5 – Air Drop

cropped, panorama, camera, and video in one, plus live filters – instagram competitor

Photo organization! Another necessary item.

Photos in iOS 7
- organized by moments – Organized by Locations, dates, etc.
- Zoom in and out of collections for very nice organizations – makes organization far easier
- Tap and scrub to find a photo- that’s a positive – photo filters for editing – an expansion of the limited editing features added last time
Photos are worth a clap – icon isn’t intuitive though, making it harder for new users. Photo app should be a clear icon of photos.

Siri – new interface – sound wave of you speeking
all new voice (who cares) you can choose a man or woman

Can now control device – increase brightness, play voicemail

Integrated twitter to find info, Wikipedia (big), and Bing (Why?). Face it that bing sucks.

iOS in the car. ioS on car screen, or eyes free. Big siri integration

maps, music, messages, calling

Lots of car manufacturers – from mazda to ferrari

App Store now has age range and “apps near me” location popularity. Find knicks app at msg and louvre app in france. Good idea. design is similar except lighter

Automatic App updating! Finally! A huge feature

Shows all purchased music – Stream anything – videos, movies, music, without having to download

Album view – tap to zoom into an album

iTunes Radio – songs trending on twitter, WWDC songs, create your own stations – Pandora killer. Don’t have to buy anything. No ads. And you can buy music directly from. Skip to next song whenever. It’s Pandora. Patent infringement? – ad supported- ad free for itunes match users.

audio-only facetime calls – factime audio

notification sync- one notification – not on every device

Activation Lock – If a thief tries to turn off fMI or wipe device, they will not be able to reactivate – genius – will kill theft! This is revolutionary