Apple’s WWDC 2011 Keynote Roundup

Today was Apple’s WWDC 2011 keynote address. There was lots of good stuff in there for us users. This is just a few highlights of what happened. If you want to get everything, then check back later. I will have a youtube video of keynote speech with the updates in there.

Starting out like Phil Schiller did, Mac OSX Lion available in July 2011 and it will be only available from the mac app store for $30 US or roughly £20 GBP. It will have some interesting multi-touch gestures. This means that you can use many fingers on a trackpad to swipe between pages and pictures as well as different applications on your mac. It will also have something called launchpad. This will essentially be a screen similar to your home screen on your iOS device.

Next up was iOS 5. With over 200 new features, this is the biggest update for the iOS devices to date. It’s a free download which is supported by the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS. It will work on both the iPad 1 and 2. It will also work on the 4th and 3rd generation iPod Touches, and it will ship in the autumn. When you buy a new iOS device in the autumn, you take it out of the box and activate it right out of the box. Operating system updates will be done right on the device using Wi-Fi. To add to the awesomeness, you will only download the changes made to the operating system. Other parts don’t get downloaded meaning that you save on bandwidth. Finally, wireless syncing, this means that instead of plugging in a cable, you connect to your Wi-Fi network. Then, you will be able to transfer songs, video and other content without the need for a wire if you choose. I think that wireless syncing is something that should have been there since iOS 1.0.

The third of the main topics was iCloud. It will be a free service with 5GB of storage(that is enough data for just over 1200 songs) . This could mean that you can get more storage but there would be a charge of course. I cloud will allow you to take some of your data on your Mac or iOS devices and have it stored in the cloud. This means that data you upload to iCloud will be sent to the other devices. Also, any applications you buy on one device can then be downloaded to the other devices at no extra cost to you. This is the same for songs that you buy from the iTunes store on your mac or iOS devices. If you have an iOS device running iOS 4.3, then you can take advantage of iTunes for the cloud right now.

Of course, Steve Jobs had that famous “one more thing”. He introduced a new service called music match. This will scan for music people have on their PC from their CDs and re-create their library online. It will cost $24.99 US, no information on the release date of that.

Now there was some other awesome stuff that I really cannot wait to use. Be sure to check back here for a video of the entire keynote address.

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