“Mail is one of the most used applications. We’re making it even better. We’re adding rich text formatting, adding indentations, you can drag addresses, you can flag and unflag, and you can search the entire contents of your messages,” says Scott Forstall.
Meet the new Mail.app. And it’ll have hot new features for enterprise customers, with support for S/MIME and certificate encryption.
The new Mail.app reveals that Dictionary integration has come to all of iOS.
The iPhone is already almost the most popular camera on Flickr. Apple wants to make it even easier to take photos with an iPhone: coming soon, you’ll have a lock screen shortcut for taking photos in iOS 5.
What’s cool about this is that even if you have a passcode set, you’ll go right to the camera. You can’t see anything else… and you can use the volume up button to take a photo…” said Fortsall to huge cheers.
This is my favorite iOS 5 addition today short of the new notifications.
In addition, Apple’s adding some abilities to easily edit photos on the iPhone, including cropping, red eye reduction, quick enhance and more.
The next two additions to iOS 5: Safari and Reminders.
Safari on the iPad has become more like the desktop version, with tab support.
Reader is coming to IOS, where it belonged all along. As well, Apple’s Reading List basically brings Instapaper and Read It Later to iOS as a default feature. You can even tweet stories on your reading list, complete with autocompletes for @mentions.
Reminders is a way to keep track of to do lists and things to be accomplished. You can create lists of things and associate dates with the reminders, as well as locations.
Reminders will sync with calDAV and also iCal.
Next big feature? Twitter integration, as rumored. And it goes way beyond photos.
On the Setting screen, you can now enter your Twitter username and password. Now, if you want to share a photo through Twitter, you just tap the Tweet button.
You can also Tweet articles from Safari, videos from YouTube app, directions and business from Maps and even contacts.
This is less dramatic than I expected Twitter integration to be: I expected Apple to go head to head with Foursquare. Nice, but trivial.
Next big feature for iOS 5? Newsstand. Think of it as iBookstore for periodicals.
“We’ve now created a single place in the App Store that combines these newspapers and magazines,” says Forstall.
Unlike in-app subscriptions. Newsstand is a direct line between magazines and newspapers to your iOS device.
If a new issue comes out of a newspaper while you’re sleeping, when you wake up, that new newspaper is already there for you to read it. You can even read it offline.
Looks like you no longer have to download each magazine’s app. Apple’s brought them all together in one place for you now. Will Apple save periodical publishing?
And here comes iOS 5, “an incredible leap for developers and customers alike,” says Scott Forstall.
“For devs, more than 1500 APIs and tools. Users get more than 200 new features.”
Apple wants to highlight ten features today. First up, though, is the biggie we’ve heard rumored: notifications.
iOS 5 is getting revamped notifications support with annoying pop ups and push notifications. They serve 100 billion push notifications a year.
The new method of dealing with notifications is called Notification Center. You can access your notifications anywhere, without interruption, by swiping your finger down from the top of the display. This is a direct swipe from Android.
Any notification that comes from apps now pops up at the top of the screen, and Apple’s added it to Stocks and Weather.
It all looks almost exactly like Mobile Notififer, and what do you know? Peter Hajas went to work at Apple.
Notifications also go to the lock screen, and allow you to see what’s going on at a glance.
Wow. Mobile Notifier was basically bought wholesale by Apple, huh? This is a big step up for iOS.
Wow! That’s a bombshell. We expected Lion would be available on DVD, USB stick and on the Mac App Store, but Phil Schiller says that it’s a Mac App Store exclusive… and he says it’ll be the easiest upgrade you’ve ever seen.
This should kill Hackintoshing and piracy of Lion, by the way.
“You need about 4GB in storage. And because it’s part of the Mac App Store it follows the rules… you can use it on all of your authorized devices,” says Schiller.
Price: $29.99, just like Snow Leopard.
And the developer preview? It’s available today.
As for widescale release? July.
The final Lion feature Apple wants to talk about today is the new Mail.app.
• Two or three column view, similar to iOS Mail.
• Smart new search suggestions. “It prompts you, when you select one, it becomes a search token, and you can have more than one,” says Phil Schiller.
• Conversation view, completely compatible with people who don’t have Lion.
It’s nice to finally see Lion’s default Mail.app catch up with the likes of Postbox, don’t you think? Hate the new logo though. Apple’s really embracing brushed steel again with Lion.
While WWDC is currently going on, a leaked Pastebin document is floating around the web. What’s in it? A lot of goodies. iOS 5 betas, iTunes 10.5 betas, and a whole lot more. A paid developer account is needed, but they’ll all be sure to be posted on public file sharing sites by the end of the day. While I’m currently logged in to my paid developer account, I still don’t have access to them, so they’ll most likely be live after the keynote.
Check out everything that Apple will be putting out after the break.
Next up in the Lion demo? AirDrop.
“The easiest way to share files between computers has been the old sneakernet… a flash drive,” says Phil Schiller.
Now there’s AirDrop, though, a peer-to-peer file utlility that allows you to easily send files to Mac on your network, with fully encrypted interface.
Wow. Just look how great that interface is!
Next up, Apple’s showing off its new feature in Lion, Resume.
Now when you launch an app in Lion, it brings you back to where you were when you quit. It remembers palettes, windows, etc, and works system wide.
Working in conjunction with Auto Save, this could be a game changer. OS X Lion will now automatically save your documents in the background without you having to do anything.
If you zoom in on the title bar of your document, the name of your document is now a menu that you can tap on. A menu pops up that lets you Lock, Duplicate, Revert to Last Opened, or Browser All Versions.
Autosave works in conjunction with Versioning in Lion, which means all together, you never have to worry about losing your work, or overwriting it with something inferior. Just browse the versions and you get a Time Machine like interface of all the past changes, which you can even cut and paste between.
Now Phil Schiller wants to talk about the Mac App Store.
“We launched the Mac App Store in January and users have already found it’s the best way to purchase and discover new software apps. It has become the #1 PC software channel for buying software in the last six months, and the developers who have come aboard have found some great success: four times the revenue they had before.”
What’s new in Lion? Well, Mac App Store is built right in, and not such a huge surprise, but in-app purchases will be coming. As well as push notifications, sandboxing, and Delta Updates.
This is a small detail, but a good one: with Lion, it appears that Photo Booth will now do facial tracking. Awesome!
[image via This Is My Next]
As Phil Schiller takes the stage to talk about Lion, one thing’s for sure: OS X is doing better as a platform than it ever has.
As an install base, there’s now over 54 million users around the world. In fact, it’s doing better than ever. The last quarter, the PC market actually shrank 1 percent while the Mac went up 28%
The Mac has outgrown the industry every quarter for the past half decade.
Most of those sales are notebooks. 73% of all Mac sales are MacBooks.
Why are MacBooks so popular? It’s because OS X is the heart of Mac, and it’s ten years old today, and has evolved to become refined, powerful and beautiful.
Today, OS X evolves again into a Lion, with over 250 new features. But we’re only going to talk about a few of them.
“If the hardware is the brain and the sinew of our products, the software is their soul,” says Steve Jobs. “This year, we’re here to talk about the soul across three separate products.”
Those three things? Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud.
“Let’s start with Lion,” says Jobs, making way for Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi to take the stage.
The lights have dimmed, the Aretha Franklin has been muted, and Steve Jobs has just taken the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to head up the 2011 World Wide Developer’s Conference.
We just got a screenshot of the notifications bar in iOS 5.
It could be fake of course, but it looks pretty good to us. And it fits with what former Engadget editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky is hearing.
Check it out full size:
Must be something huge! Pic by Greg Kumparak.
Here’s another shot. You can almost see underneath…
Here’s the line for this morning’s Stevenote. The video was taken at 6.15 AM; It’s as long a line I’ve see for any Apple event, including some of the massive store grand openings. The buzz for this WWDC is huge.
It appears the end of MobileMe is now upon us… or the end of paid subscriptions to MobileMe at least: a number of subscribers to the $99 a year service are reporting that Apple is automatically refunding renewal fees, but why?
As Apple unveils new services and products at this week’s WWDC, we start another week of deals for Mac fans. First up is a 20 percent discount on iTunes gift cards, allowing you to purchase a $15 card for just $12.75, for example. Next is CleanApp 3, giving you to ability to uninstall and archive your applications. Finally, there is a sampler of Tony Award-winning songs, including such favorites as Mama Mia!, Rock of Ages, and Million Dollar Quartet.
Like always, details on these and many other items can be found at CoM’s “Daily Deals” page right after the jump.
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon that leads us to interpret a random image as somehow being informationally significant. It’s why you see Jesus in the char on the face of your morning slice of toast, and it’s why you see Kermit the Frog on Mars.
It’s also why several prominent Apple blogs think they see an S (if they squint) in Apple’s WWDC invite, heralding the arrival, perhaps, of an iPhone 4S. Or it could be a 5, proclaiming the announcement of iOS 5. If you really squint, it even looks a little like an ampersand!
Hey, this is fun. What do you see? As a little bit of pre-WWDC frivolity, tell us in the comments the wackiest thing you see in the pareidolia of the WWDC invite.
[via Razorian Fly]
Is this a leaked photograph of the new iOS 5 home screen complete with a swanky new notification bar and a revamped camera icon, or simply the work of a talented Photoshopper?
With just under 10 hours still to go before Steve Jobs kicks off this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, some eager attendees are already forming lines outside San Francisco’s Moscone West. A famous face among the bunch is Jay Freeman (better known as Saurik), the creator of Cydia.
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When Steve takes the stage tomorrow morning, it’s pretty much a sure bet that he will use the words, magical, amazing, beautiful, and extraordinary a few dozen times each as he introduces the new iOS 5, iCloud and OS X Lion. We’re sure that iOS 5 is going to be great, but the iOSMagic Team has dreamed up something more amazing than even Steve Jobs can deliver.
