Apples WWDC 2014 keynote in 10 minutes. The Verge did an impressive job of scrunching the whole 2 hour presentation down into a 10 minute summary. Translucent materials, new icons consistent typography, at-a-glance looks at notifications, launching an app with just a few characters, iCloud folders in Finder, attachments encrypted separate from email, markup doodles on emails, a smart search field in Safari with your favorites and suggestions in your completion menu, a birds eye tab view, Airdrop continuity and handoff between devices, text messages from inferior devices relayed to other devices, and phone calls, too, interactive notifications -- just pull down and reply, double-tap for people, single gestures for flag and delete, swipe your message down to access the rest of your mail and search, context-sensitive QuickType learns how you type to different people in different apps, group messaging with do not disturb on a per-thread level, tap to talk, monitor health metrics, shared photostreams calendars, reminders, and purchases for families, prompting parents for permission when kids make a purchase, every photo you take on all your devices with search, smart photo editing, you can say Hey, Siri and start talking to Siri without touching your phone, App bundles and App previews in the App Store, and TestFlight, an extensibility services so apps can offer services to other apps, photo filters, 3rd party app widgets that can go into Notification Center, 3rd party apps can take advantage of TouchID, a common network protocol for home automation (locks, lights, cameras, doors, thermostats, plugs, switches) with secure pairing so only your iPhone can open your garage door, Get ready for bed to Siri and your garage door closes, your door is locked, the thermostat is lowered and your lights are dimmed, and finally, new programming language: Swift, a fast and safe language with closures, generics, namespaces, type inference, and multiple return types. — Wayne Radinsky
Posted on: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:27:25 +0000
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