June 10, 2013

Live Coverage: Apple’s WWDC 2013 Keynote

  • Tim is ending the Keynote by talking about Apple's believes and values. And is showing an ad.
  • Tim is back on stage. Talking about today's announcements.
  • iOS 7 has 1500 new APIs for developers, including Multitasking API, new Gaming APIs and more.
  • The iTunes Radio is more like Pandora. It lets you create station based on artist, Genre or various categories.
  • Apple is introducing iTunes Radio thats built right into the Music app.
  • App Store now updates apps automatically.
  • iOS in the car brings maps, music, messages to the car.
  • Eddy is on stage showing Siri. Siri has new interface and better integration with new apps like Twitter and Wikipedia. 
  • iOS Camera brings live photo filters. And the Photo app brings better organizing. 
  • iOS 7 beings AirDrop sharing.
  • Demo of Safari on iPhone.
  • Multitasking for all apps. Its intelligent multitasking that depends on your usage rather than that app running in background continuously.  
  • iOS 7 has new Control Center that comes up when you swipe up from the bottom of the device.
  • Showing the new weather app, Calender, Messages and Folders.
  • Craig is giving a demo of iOS 7.
  • Craig is back on stage to show iOS 7. 
  • And the crowd goes crazy after seeing the video.
  • The iOS 7 looks awesome and makes every other mobile OS look outdated.
  • iOS 7 introductory video now playing. 
  • Tim says team at Apple has been working really hard on iOS 7 and it features a new UI and many new features.
  • He is talking about Android vs iOS.
  • Tim is back on stage and now its iOS.
  • Demo of iWorks for iCloud. It looks very sleek and clean, Trademark Apple style.
  • It works in the browser like Google docs.
  • Next version of iWork is announced with deep iCloud integration and its called iWork for iCloud.
  • Tim is back on stage. He is talking about iCloud - Apple has 300 million iCloud account.
  • And the configuration is just awesome - 12 core Xeon processor, ultra fast 1866MHz DDR3 memory, PCIe Flash memory, dual graphics card and its less than 1/8 the size of last gen Mac Pro.
  • And it does looks very sexy.
  • Phil says that it is the greatest desktop and is completely redesigned for the future.
  • Apple is giving a preview of new Mac Pro.
  • MacBook 11-inch will start at $999 and 13-inch will start at $1099.
  • MacBook Air has 802.11 ac and Apple is also announcing Airport Extreme with 802.11ac.
  • The new MacBook Air offers 9 hours battery life for 11-inch model and 12 hours for 13-inch model.
  • It's based on Haswell and offers full day battery life.
  • Phil is on stage and is now talking about MacBook Air.
  • OS X Mavericks preview available today and it will be released this Fall.
  • Now demo time for Maps, Calender and iBooks.
  • iBooks is also coming to the Mac.
  • Maps for OS X - it offer turn by turn direction and many other features.
  • There are some very cool power saving features in the new OS X. And the best part is it looks like they have improved performance by leaps and bounds.
  • Apple is also updating Safari in new OS X and claims that it improves performance by 1.6 times when compared to Chrome.
  • Apple is also focusing on bringing the power requirement down. Also while decreasing power OS X Mavericks will improve performance by up to 1.4 times.
  •  OS X is truly aimed at developers, most of the features shown are for developers. (our comments are in blue color)
  • Demo of OS X Mavericks.
  • Airplay connected TV acts as a full power separate display.
  • OS X adds support for advance multiple display
  • Finder is getting tabs and tagging.
  • OS X codename is changing and now it will be called OS X Mavericks. 
  • Craig is on stage to talk about Mac OS X. 
  • Tim is back on stage and is now talking about Mac. MacBook is the number one notebook and growth of Mac has been astounding. 
  • Demo is back on. It's a interesting demo showing the future of gaming using robotics.
  • Anki is launching the company at WWDC. and now a demo from Anki. Showing Anki Drive. And there is some problem.
  • Now App Store - 5 years with over 50 billion downloads, 900,000 apps for iPhone, 350,000 iPad apps, 575 million accounts and over $10 billion paid to developers. That's three times more than any other platform.
  • Updates now - first Apple retail, over 1 million visitors per day, 407 stores around 14 countries and now showing opening video of Berlin store.
  • He welcomes everyone. Talks about WWDC and announces that its the longest running develop conference.
  • Tim is on the stage.
  • Lights are down and a ad starts.
  • Announcement "our presentation will begin shortly". All the focus is now on the stage.
  • Just 5 more minutes to go and everyone is now seated. 
  • We are inside the hall and it looks more crowded this year than last year. We are hearing that Apple has added over 2,000 more seats this year.
  • Crowd is building up and we still have 40 minutes to go.
  •  Image via MacRumors.
  • Apple will be live streaming the WWDC 2013 keynote here. However, if you want analysis and comments about what Apple announces today, then join us for the journey.
  • We are here at Moscone West waiting to get in for the Keynote.
Apple will kick start their Worldwide Develop Conference tomorrow with a keynote at Moscone West in San Francisco. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has already commented that Apple will be showing the next generation iOS 7 with some major redesign at the keynote. And there are rumors that Apple will also introduced updated MacBooks along with completely redesigned Mac Pro. The WWDC keynote will start at 10AM PST/ 1PM EST/ 6PM London/ 2AM Japan. Techztalk will be doing live coverage and analysis of the event start at 9:30 AM PST tomorrow. Please join us on live.techztalk.com for the coverage.