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“I can’t think of a better reason to get up in the morning. I hope you have a fantastic week. Thank you for joining us.”
“Only Apple could make such amazing hardware, software, and services. We are so proud of these products. They are perfect examples of what Apple does best. Ultimately, it’s why people come to work at Apple, and with Apple. To create products that empower people. To make a difference. The products we make, combined with the apps that you create, and fundamentally change the world.”
“Let’s review… the new MacBook Pro. OS X Mountain Lion. The best OS X yet. iOS 6, with 200 new features. The world’s most advanced mobile OS.”
more?
“And that is iOS 6.”
“iOS 6 is a great release for all of our devs. And it’s available for developers today. It will ship this Fall. Will support 3GS and later, 2nd gen iPad…” No iPad 1 support
We’ve added ‘lost mode’ to find my iPhone.”
“So a brand new mapping solution from the ground up in iOS 6… and these are only a few. There are so many more in here. Game Center challenges. New privacy controls…”
iOS 6.
“And that is turn by turn.”
very original
been waiting for this !!!
“The last thing I’d like to show you is turn by turn.”
“This is being rendered in realtime.”
Pretty Impressive!
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“We’ve been building up 3D models of cities around the world.”
“Now a really fun feature that we’re adding to our app is something called flyover.”
Siri Integration
“You can ask questions like where can I get gas.”
“Once you find a place you’d like to go, just tap quick route.”
“Once you find a place you’d like to go, just tap quick route.”
TURN BY TURN NAVIGATION
“We’re also building a traffic service.”
Integrated Yelp.
maps?
“We were surprised at how many kids with autism have been using the phones, but there are controls in apps that you don’t want them hitting.”
“Next is guided access.”
“We set out to make the most accessible devices.”
“The best way to get all of your passes and tickets together in one place.”
shredder?
“Let me give you a quick demo of Passbook.”
“We’ve created templates to make this easy for devs.”
“When you get to the movie theater or the airport, you have to fumble around to find the pass. This organizes them.”
“Next up is a brand new app called Passbook.” This is a place to collect boarding passes, store cards, and movie ticket apps.
Pull to refresh messages!!!!!!!
“We’ve made it easy to insert photos and video right from the compose window.”
“Next are some great enhancements to mail. Starting with VIPs. It allows you to mark someone who you really want to be notified about. VIPs have a star, and we have a VIP mailbox. We’ve added a flagged mailbox as well.”
“Photo Stream sharing with friends. Choose the photos, choose the friends — friends will get a notification. The photos will appear in an album… and friends can comment. Weird, this is like a Facebook feature. Almost like Apple’s own social network.”
“We’re also adding fullscreen support in landscape.”
“Next up is Photo Stream.”
“We also adding the ability to upload photos right from Safari to your favorite websites.”
“We’re adding iCloud tabs, and offline reading list.”
“Next up is Safari. Safari is the best and most popular on the planet. About two thirds of all mobile traffic comes from Safari in iOS.”
“Also, we’re unifying your phone number and Apple ID. So if someone calls you on your phone number for Facetime, you can answer it on your iPad or Mac. And we’re doing the same thing with iMessage.”
“It only works over Wi-Fi… so what happens when there isn’t Wi-Fi? In iOS 6 we’re enabling Facetime over cellular.”
“Next is Facetime.”
“You also get fine grain control over which phone calls you can receive.” This is nice — you can also do groups. “You can also set up repeated calls — if someone calls a second time in 3 mins, it will come through.”
“I can see many of you are like me and you’ve been awakened in the middle of the night — this tells your phone not to bother you. The messages will still come to your phone, it just won’t light up the screen or make a sound.”
“Next up is something we’re calling do not disturb.”
“If you choose reply with message, you can choose any of these, or if you choose remind me later, you can be reminded in an hour… or remind me when I leave, which will set up a geofence and remind you when you leave the building.”
“You probably have been in a meeting where you can’t take a call, but you want to text back, or remind yourself to call them later. Now there’s a new tool in the phone app where you can.”
“Next, some nice enhancements to the phone app.”
“Also your Facebook events will appear in calendars, and birthdays
“We’ve integrated it with the App Store. You can like apps, and see what your friends like. Same with movies, TV, and music.”
“But we didn’t stop there.”
“We’ve been working to create the best Facebook experience on a mobile device.”
Facebook.
“So you can now do local search even in China. And we’re taking Siri beyond the iPhone 4S, and we’re bringing it to the new iPad.”
“We’re now taking local search around the world.”
“We’re adding Korea. We’re adding Mandarin for Taiwan, Catonese….”
“We’re adding Italian.”
“We’re including Canada… eh?”
“And we’ve added something called Eyes Free. We’re working with car manufacturers to include a button that will bring up Siri — so you can keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road. A number of manufacturers have committed to delivering this in the next 12 months.”
“And those are just a few things Siri has learned in iOS 6.”
“One other thing Siri learned: how to launch apps. Play Temple Run… and it’s just like that.”
“You can ask about directors or actors. Show me movies staring Scarlett Johannson.”
“You can watch the trailer.”
“Next up, Siri’s become something of a movie buff. You can ask: ‘What movies are playing at the Metreon?’”
“We’ve integrated with Rotten Tomatoes.”
“We’ve partnered with OpenTable — I can tap here to make reservations.”
“I can ask ‘find a great place for dinner’”
Siri: “Buster Posey has a batting average of .290″
“What is Buster Posey’s batting average?”
“The first thing that Siri has learned in 8 months is all about sports. ‘What was the score of the last Giants game?”
“Siri has only been out 8 months, and it does so much for you. Siri is fantastic. But she’s been studying up. Here’s what she can do in iOS 6.”
Siri is coming to everything… ?
“iOS 6 is a fantastic release. It has more than 200 new features, starting with Siri.”
“I’m happy to announce iOS 6.”
“All of this results in some very satisfied customers. More than 75% of our customers check the ‘very satisfied’ box, and our competition has less than 50%.”
“Next is Game Center. We have more than 130m people using it. They submit 5b scores every week.”
“Nearly half of all the photos come from iOS 5.”
“Next is iMessage. A 140m users. More than a 150b messages.”
“SInce we introduced Notification Center, 81% of apps are using it.”
“We’re sending 1 1/2 trillion push notifications.”
“Almost all of our users are running iOS 5… now if you compare that to the competition. They released a dairy product, 4.0, about the same time as we released iOS 5. About 7% of their users are running it.”
“We’ve sold more than 365m iOS devices through March.”
“Alright, let’s talk about iOS.”
“This is for upgrades from Lion and all the way from Snow Leopard. And it will upgrade all of your personal Macs.”
“This is for upgrades from Lion and all the way from Snow Leopard. And it will upgrade all of your personal Macs.”
“We’re delivering to customers… next month.”
“Those are a few new features… get your apps ready for China.”
“We’re improving our Chinese input method. Providing a new Chinese dictionary. In Safari, we’re adding support for Baidu.”
“One area I want to highlight — features we’re adding for China.”
200 new features in Mountain Lion
iPad VS Mac
“So the first thing I’d like to do is show my Mac screen, and my Apple TV.”
“We support turn based and head-to-head gaming, across platforms.”
“Next is AirPlay mirroring.”
“Wouldn’t it be great if our computers still worked for us when we weren’t working? Now it can.”
“But sharing works well in full-screen apps too.”
“You can zoom in and out, but what happens when you zoom further out? I’m pulled into Tabview — I see all my live tabs.”
“We also have a new feature we call tabview.”
iCloud tabs… looks familiar
“Next is the new Safari.”
“Next is the new Safari.”
“Next is sharing. Links, images, video… and now in Mountain Lion you can share right from the app where you’re working. There’s a share button on the toolbar. Twitter… just like that.”
“Next up, dictation. It’s built into the system and works everywhere.”
“Even in Microsoft Word.”
Siri Voice Dictation
“Sometimes when you’re using your Mac, it needs to get your attention. Everyone had their own way of doing it. It could be disruptive.”
notifications
Drag and drop for to the cloud…
“If you’re sitting at your Mac and your phone buzzes, you can respond right there.”
“We have a great little notes app. We support images and links. And of course you can open notes in separate windows. But the huge one here is Messages.”
“So this is our first look at Mountain Lion. We have a gorgeous new desktop image, and gorgeous new glass dock.”
Pages, Numbers, Keynote. Preview and TextEdit. “We have a developer SDK, so you can add support.”
“We’re also bringing integration with your documents, with a feature we’re calling Documents in the Cloud.”
“With Mountain Lion we built support for iCloud right in. When you sign in with your account, we configure all of your apps and your content is up to date across devices.”
“Mountain Lion is a major new release with hundreds of new features. I’m going to detail just 8, and we’re starting with iCloud.”
“Lion was our best selling release ever. 40% of users are on it. And that was in 9 months.”
Craig Federighi came out
“It’s simply the best computer we’ve ever made.”
Ships Today
“We also work to make this environmentally friendly.”
Starts at 99
With the new MBP, we set out to design something extreme. That meant we could design the best computer for today, and the future.”
“It’s built for extreme performance, but it’s remarkably portable. We changed our approach to the design of the display. We eliminated the need for a separate cover glass.”
wow.
woa.
“The best stereo speakers we’ve ever put into a notebook.”
Thunderbolt to FireWire 800, and to Ethernet.
“Let’s take a look at the ports. SD slot, HDMI, Thunderbolt, USB 2 and 3 on both sides, headphone, magsafe… thinner.”
“The fastest RAM, the fastest graphics.”
“Here are a few of the things on the inside. The fastest CPU we can put in. Quad-core i5 or i7.”
“It’s dominated by a battery — it takes tremendous work on battery tech to drive this hardware.”
inside.
“Everything inside has been reinvented.”
“Now applications do have to be updated for this new display. We’ve been working with some key developers. Let me give you some examples. Adobe Photoshop.”
“Incredible performance.”
updated Final Cut too….
“Mail has been updated, Safari, iMovie, iPhoto. You’re going to see a clarity and level of detail you’ve never seen before.”
“It’s got deeper blacks, a higher angle of viewing, and we’ve reduced the glare by 75%.”
“The pixels are so small that your retina cannot discern them.”
“The most amazing thing is this gorgeous display. Yes it is a Retina display.”
“About as thin as a MacBook Air. And it’s under 4 1/2 lbs.”
“It is a breakthrough in engineering.”
“It’s thinner than my finger.”
“The most beautfiul computer we have ever made.”
“Want to see it? Let’s show it now.”
“You want it to have a killer new display. You want an architecture built for the future, you want it to be light. You want it unlike anything else.”
“Want to know the answer?”
“With the MBA, the team did something bold. There were aggressive in embracing new tech. They also got rid of stuff that trending out. That enabled them to do something bold. So we’ve been asking the team to think about what would make the next gen MBP?”
“So what’s next? Let me make room on the slide.”
“So across the board, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro all updated today. We’re proud of the engineering team here for this.”
“Here’s the 13-inch, starts with a 2.5GHz i5.”
“Same 7 hours of battery life with all that performance.”
“As you might expect, we’re updating the IO too. USB 2 and USB 3 too.”
“We’re updating the MBP processors to Ivy Bridge. 2.7GHz, turbo boosted up to 3.7GHz.”
“We also have a really nice update to the MacBook Pro. Our customers really care about having the speed for their music, video, and design.”
Starts shipping today. Boom!
“Prices are 9 and 99 for 11 inch, cheaper than before.”
“Here’s the MacBook Air — we have a port on each side, USB 2 and 3 support. Use whatever port you want.”
“It’s faster than any hard drive we can put in a notebook. And we’re adding USB 3.”
“It’s so zippy and quick, but now we’re making it even faster.”
Up to 8GB of RAM.Up to 512GB of flash storage.
“With Intel turbo boosting, up to 3.2Ghz.”
“It’s revolutionized the notebook. It’s a breakthrough. Everyone is trying to copy it. They find it’s not so easy.”
“We’re going to update it with some really great features and updates. New CPUs — Ivy Bridge. Up to 2GHz dual core.”
“It’s revolutionized the notebook. It’s a breakthrough. Everyone is trying to copy it. They find it’s not so easy.”
“Good morning everyone.”
“Today we get to talk to you about the MacBook lineup. We are so proud of this lineup. The best in the industry.”
“Let’s get right to it. I’d like to invite Phil Schiller on stage to talk about changes in our notebook lineup.”
looks the same
That’s a great reminder of what it’s all about. And why we do what we do. We’d like to thank everyone in the dev community for the incredible apps you’ve done for us. Thank you.”
This video is WAY too long. iOS! iOS! iOS!
Just watching video highlights on Apple’s App Store
A forest
“Despite these numbers, what we do together is much more important than any numbers could reflect. Our goal has always been to do great work, and make a difference in other people’s lives.”
“Despite these numbers, what we do together is much more important than any numbers could reflect. Our goal has always been to do great work, and make a difference in other people’s lives.”
“It’s an economy in itself. It operates in 120 countries around the world. And I’m pleased to announce that we’re adding an adittional 32.”
“We’ve written checks for over b for you guys.”
“I’m happy to announce a new milestone — customers have downloaded 30b apps.”
400m Accounts with Credit cards
Starting with a few updates on the App Store
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