Video: WWDC Keynote / Apple Special Event, June 6, 2011
// June 7th, 2011 // No Comments » // Apple, iPad, iPhone
In case you missed a lot of the news from Apple WWDC Keynote yesterday (like I did), check out the video of the event.
Video: WWDC Keynote / Apple Special Event, June 6, 2011
If you don’t have the time, or feel the need to watch the entire video, the rundown of most everything yesterday is in the links below. I’m most excited about the iOS5 release coming this fall.
What Mac owners need to know after today’s WWDC announcements
Apple Previews iOS 5 with Notification Center, OTA Updates, Wi-Fi iTunes Syncing and More
It all sounds good and vaguely reminiscent of LaLa.com. I miss you LaLa! The only difference is Apple is likely to charge for the ability to store in the cloud and the greedy music industry is trying to double dip. So lame.
Solitaire is probably the most popular application on all Windows machines — it helps that it’s on every version of the OS since Windows 3.x. On the Mac, it’s not the same. No solitaire is included, but it doesn’t mean there aren’t options out there.
Touch as navigation is here to stay — just look at any cellular, tablet, along with a host of other devices. Based on experience with those devices, our 18-month-old expects things like our HDTV to be a touch screen. But will our desktop computers ever shed their mice and keyboards for touch interfaces? Never say never, but some things would have to change in terms of ergonomics, resolution, etc. The article below from mac.appstorm.net does a great job of exploring the concept of desktop touch.
Looking to play a little uber-retro Atari on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch? Atari just released a huge number of games to the store. They’ve done a couple of little upgrades though. Some of the games allow for bluetooth-enabled multiplayer, while all the released games are compatible with ThinkGeek’s soon-to-be released 
I’ve been an iTunes user since its inception, running it starting on one of those old iMac G4′s with the half-dome base, and the movable screen — still my favorite iMac design. Anyway, iTunes has evolved and continued to add new features in all of its ten major software revisions — some good, some bad and some “meh.”
