Apple WWDC 09 Event Coverage

section: common, for your questions: KezNews forum, 8.6.2009

Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated drivers

Phil Schiller delivering the WWDC 09 keynote address Enlarge picture Apple has kicked off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference today, with a keynote address delivered by the company’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller. As expected, Apple pulled off some great stuff recently, and shared it all with WWDC attendees.

As usual, the company cited an increased number of adopters, lately thanks to the iPhone. No surprise there. However, Schiller showed a graph of Mac OS X adopters, not iPhone OS fans. OS X adoption tripled after the iPhone was released, Schiller stressed. But Apple’s SVP of Product Marketing didn’t waste time, and delved right into the announcements.

New MacBooks

A “brand new” version of the MacBook Pro is now available, with a new Lithium polymer battery. The battery is built-in (non repleacable by the user), it offers up o 7 hours of work time, and lasts for five years (1000 charges). The 15-inch Pro’s screen has 60% more color gamut. As far as ports are concerned, the notebook adds an SD card slot. Performance also got a boost: 3.06 GHz Dual Core 6MB Level 2 Cache, up to 8GB of RAM and 500GB hard drive / 256GB SSD. The notebook’s size and weight is the same. The price? $1699!

The 17-inch Pro is now priced at $2499 and has an ExpressCard slot.

The 13-inch unibody MacBook also gains the built-in battery, as well as the new display and SD card slot. Up to 8GB of memory, 500GB HDD / 256GB SSD, built-in backlit keyboard, FireWire 800 are the rest of the specs. For $1199, the 13-inch unibody MacBook is really just a smaller MacBook Pro.

Snow Leopard

Bertrand Serlet, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering took the stage to discuss the latest version of Apple’s operating system, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. According to Serlet, Apple is refining more than 90% of Leopard in Snow Leopard.

iPhone OS 3.0

As usual, Scott Forstall, Senior Vice President of iPhone Software came up on stage to show off the new stuff inside iPhone OS 3.0. Forstall usually invites developer after developer on stage to tell their iPhone-story and present their apps. However, this time there was a considerably higher number of devs “prepared” by Apple to showcase the capabilities of iPhone OS 3.0.

Forstall began by revealing that the iPhone SDK was downloaded over a million times. Also, there are now over 50,000 apps in the App Store. Best of all, more than 40,000,000 iPhones and iPod touch units have been sold so far, according to Apple’s SVP of iPhone Software.

source: news.softpedia.com
>> Click Here to Run a Free Scan for PC Errors <<

send email