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.Apple WWDC 2011 announcements: Mac OS X Lion, IOS 5, iCloud
Apple is kicking off its 2021 World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) with CEO Steve Jobs (still on indefinite medical leave) expected to tout his company’s financial success in the last year, as well as introduce new products, services and technologies that will propel the company in the next 12 months. Apple has already revealed that it plans to cover Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion,” iOS 5.0, and its forthcoming iCloud service…but what will be Jobs’ “one more thing?”
As usual for his keynote presentations, Jobs opened proceedings with an overview of Apple’s market success, noting there are now over 54 million Macintosh users around the world with the Mac’s market share up 28 percent for the last quarter—whilte the entire PC market actually shrank. Jobs attributed the Mac’s success to products like the MacBook Air, noting that 73 percent of Mac sales are currently notebooks.
Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”
Jobs then launched into an overview of Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion,” the next release of the Mac OS X operating system. The system will include some 250 new features and capabilities, and Jobs chose to focus only on a handful, the first being multi-touch gestures: borrowing from the iPad, Mac OS X Lion will support momentum, pinch-to-zoom, and multitouch apps using MacBook’s built-in trackpads and Apple’s Magic TrackPad for desktop systems. In another nod from the iPad and iPhone, Mac OS X Lion will also offer standardized support for full-screen applications, with users able to move between apps with swipes and a gesture-based move to the desktop. Apple is retooling the majority of its built-in applications to support fullscreen modes (including its Safari browser, iCal, Preview, and iLife applications like iPhoto and iMovie).
Mac OS X Lion will also feature Mission Control, which will be a unified interface for managing multiple application: like Apple’s existing Exposé technology, it enables users to get an overview of their applications, but also organize them by group.CITAZIONEThe Mac App Store will also be central to Mac OS X Lion: Apple
claims since they launched the Mac App Store for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow
Leopard it became the leading PC software channel, outdoing the likes of
brick-and-mortar retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, and Office Depot. In
Mac OS X 10.7, the Mac App store will get in-app purchase capabilities,
including the capability for developers to push “delta updates” to
customers, sending them only the bits of software that have changed with
an update rather than an entire new application.
Il Max App Store avrà un ruolo centrale in Max OS X Lion: Apple sostiene che da quando ha lanciato il Mac App Store per OS X 10.6 Snow Leaopard, è diventato il principale canale di diffusione di software per PC, superando top-retailers come Best Buy, Walmart ed Office Depot. In Mac OS X 10.7, l'App Store includerà la possiblità di acquisto di applicazioni, compresa la possibilità per gli sviluppatori di rilasciare "aggiornamenti delta" agli utenti, mandando loro solo le parti di programma che sono realmente cambiate con uno speciale aggiornamento piuttosto che re-installare l'intera applicazione.
Mac OS X Lion will also feature a system-wide “Resume” capability that enables users to pick up applications where they left off: applications, windows, palettes, and documents will all be restorer to their previous setup, even if the Mac is shut down (or runs out of battery juice). When users log back into Lion, their environments will be restored to their previous state, apps and all. Lion will also feature system-wide auto-save capabilities: not only will users not have to remember to constantly save their documents, but (via a new feature called Versions) they’ll be able to revert to previous versions of a document using Time Machine-like technology. Users can also lock documents so they can’t be altered (or effectively nuked) with a future autosave.
Apple also introduced a new feature called AirDrop, intended to make it easier for users to share documents with friends and co-workers. The service is based on peer-to-peer networking with auto-discovery and setup : users can choose to share a document with a nearby user and, if the recipient accepts, the item simply appears in their downloads folder, no muss no fuss. Transfers are fully encrypted so users dont’ have to worry about man-in-the-middle interceptions of their data.
Apple has also substantially revised its Mail application with an emphasis on improving the reading experience—and also leveraging Lion’s full-screen capabilities. The new Mail application integrates message snippet capabilities derived from iOS mail, along with new search suggestions: as soon as users start typing, Mail guesses whether a user is looking for a user or subject matter. Searches can be limited to specific mailboxes, and additional parameters can be quickly added with tokens. Mail will also feature a conversation view that separates out replies and attachments and attempts to show conversations exactly as they were sent.
Perhaps most significantly, Apple does not plan to deliver Mac OS X Lion on optical disc: it will only be available for download purchase through the Mac App Store. The OS will come in around 4 GB, and doesn’t require users to reboot from an install disc or buy multiple copies: as soon as it’s purchased, it’ll be installed on all authorized Macs. And Apple says this approach is not only more convenient, it’ll be cheaper: Mac OS X Lion will cost just $29.99. That’s down from the $129.99 for a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard disk. A developer preview is available today (this is WWDC after all) and Apple says Lion will ship next month.
iOS 5.0
Apple then switched gears to its iOS platform, noting that more than 200 million iOS devices have been sold and, when you total up iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices Apple accounted for some 44 percent of the mobile device market—the iPad alone has sold more than 25 million units. Apple also touted the more then 400,000 apps available via its App Store, with more than 90,000 of them made specifically for the iPad—and Apple has paid out more the $2.5 billion to developers in the last three years.CITAZIONEApple’s iOS 5 will have more than 200 new features—and, as with Lion, Apple chose to focus on just ten for the keynote. First, Apple announced its notifications interface will get a significant revamp with a new Notifications Center. Notifications Center will serve as a hub for all notifications from ioS applications: users will be able to peruse and scroll through their entire list of notifications at any time, with down-from-top swiping for navigation—and notifications during a lock screen will enable users to go directly to the app that sent the notice. Users will also be able to clear all notifications with a single swipe.
Apple iOS 5 avrà ben oltre 200 nuove funzionalità e, come Lion, Apple si è focalizzata su alcuni punti chiave. Per prima cosa, la Apple ha annunciato che l'interfaccia delle notifiche verrà notevolmente rimodernata con un nuovo "Centro delle Notifiche". Questo fungerà da centro di tutte le notifiche delle varie applicazioni: gli utenti potranno esaminarle, semplicemente scorrendo l'intera lista delle notifiche, con uno scroll dal basso verso l'alto, e con le schermata home bloccata, le notifiche permetteranno agli utenti di andare direttamente all'applicazione che le ha inviate. Inoltre gli utenti potranno anche cancellare tutte le notifiche con un singolo "colpo".CITAZIONEiOS 5.0 will also feature Newsstand, enabling users to keep up with newspaper and magazine subscriptions on their iOS device. Users will be able to keep up with all their magazine and newspaper subscriptions from a single location, rather than having to manage them all separately through individual apps. Subscription downloads will happen in the background, so new content is available for users as soon as they get up in the morning.
Altra novità di iOS 5 sarà l'applicazione "NewsStand", che renderà possibile per gli utenti mantenere organizzate tutte le sottoscrizioni per copie digitali di quotidiani e riviste in un'unico posto, piuttosto che doverli gestire separatamente con app. diverse. Il download delle sottoscrizioni avviene in background, quindi i nuovi contenuti vengono resi disponibili per gli utenti fin dalla mattina.CITAZIONEAs rumored, iOS 5 will also have integrated Twitter support, including a new single sign-in feature that means users won’t have to sign in for every Twitter application they want to use. Twitter will also be integrated with Camera and Photos, enabling users to easier share photos via Twitter. Users can optionally attach location information. Twitter integration also extends to YouTube and Safari, enabling users to quickly tweet videos and Web pages, and users can automatically update photos on their contact list by linking them with a Twitter username.
Come anticipato da alcuni rumors, iOS 5 avrà anche l'integrazione diretta con Twitter, includendo un'unico login, il che significa che l'utente non deve loggarsi al suo account Twitter su ogni applicazioni che vuole utilizzarlo. Twitter sarà, inoltre, integrato con la fotocamera e le foto, rendendo possibile una più semplice condivisione di foto, sui propri account. Sarà anche possibile, opzionalmente, aggiungere (nei tweet) le informazioni relative alla localizzazione. L'integrazione con Twitter si estende anche a YouTube e Safari, e questo renderà possibile per gli utenti tweetare più velocemente video ed intere pagine web, e gli utenti potranno in automatico aggiornare le foto sulla loro lista contatti, solo cliccando sul link del loro profilo Twitter.CITAZIONENext, Apple announced it is building a version of Safari Reader into its mobile version of the Safari browser, enabling users to easily pull content on to a single page and (if they like) send the contents via email without all the cruft of adds, navigation, and multiple page breaks that clutter so many Web sites. Users will also get a Reading List, a set of stories saved for reading later: once a piece is added to a reading list, it’s synced along with everything else across iOS devices and Safari on Mac and WIndows. Mobile Safari will also get full tabbed browsing.
Infine, Apple ha annunciato che sta sviluppando un "Safari Reader", integrato nella versione mobile del suo browser Safari, e questa nuova feature renderà possibile estrarre facilmente i vari contenuti di una singola pagina web e (se volete), inviare i contenuti via email, senza dover aprire pagine aggiuntive e senza interruzioni nella navigazione. Gli utenti potranno inoltre crearsi una propria "Lista di lettura", cioè un insieme di contenuti salvati per poi essere visualizzati in un secondo momento: nel momento in cui qualcosa viene aggiunto alla lista di lettura, si sincronizza su tutti gli altri dispositivi iOS e su Safari su MAC e su Windows.
La nuova versione di Safari Mobile includerà anche una completa navigazione a schede.
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