AppleInsider Staff
Following one of the most jam packed WWDC keynotes in recent memory, Apple has made the two-hour long presentation available on its website and issued developer preview versions of OS X 10.10 Yosemite and iOS 8.
As expected, Apple debuted its latest OS X version, dubbed "Yosemite," the newest iteration of iOS 8 and a few surprises during this year's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. A streaming version of the presentation is now available through the company's events website.
OS X 10.10 Yosemite further merges the design language set forth in iOS 7 into Apple's desktop operating system, with a substantially flat user interface, copious use of transparencies and simple, yet colorful, iconography. Multiple new additions to the OS include a more powerful Spotlight, "dark mode" and an enhanced Notification Center.
Perhaps most exciting is a new function called Continuity, which enables iOS devices to share data and other information seamlessly.
Cross-platform utilityiCloud Drive which promises to incorporate Box-like document storage and editing, is also new for 2014.
As for iOS 8, Apple piled on a slew of new features like the QuickType keyboard, expanded spotlight searches, additional Siri features and a more intuitive Notification Center. Also for iOS, Apple introduced a HealthKit and the corresponding Health app to aggregate activity and health-related data in a single repository.
HomeKit made its debut to connect the Internet of Things via Apple's mobile devices, while Touch ID was opened up to third party developers.
Finally, Apple introduced a completely new coding language in Swift, which can be integrated with existing coding languages with minimal effort.
Developers can download preview beta versions of both OS X 10.10 and iOS 8 via Apple's Developer Portal now.
With a runtime of two hours and ten minutes, the 2014 WWDC keynote is crammed full of new features coming to OS X and iOS later this year.
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WWDC! What an earth moving keynote! New OS X with new UI and new features (awesome!), new iOS 8 with HealthKit, new features and UI improvements (amazing!), HomeKit (incredible!), even more integration between OS X and iOS (insane!), brad new Xcode programming language for writing code (earth moving and game changing!!! -mark my words). What a keynote! Apple is leading the world for developing great software! There is no place for developers like Apple. I can't wait now for the fall to see what Apple will release to complement and implement all the unbelievable software integration and development they have been able to achieve! This fall's product announcement is going to be the climax and the consummation of Eddy Cue's words: "Later this year, we've got the best product pipeline that I've seen in my 25 years at Apple." I can truly say, without equivocation, no company can achieve what Apple achieves the way that Apple achieves it. Not even close.
Anyone doubt Tim Cook now? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
iOS is extremely underwhelming from an end user perspective but the new OS X looks awesome, glad it's finally getting some love!
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I am not sure how this crowd feels about the overall feel of the show, but I for one, loved the charm, the humour and shared presence of many personalities (old and new alike) that drive this modern progressive company forward. It is about time they threw out some digs against Android (in reality Google) for the mismanagement of their OS, the inability to delivery easy upgrades to average users (fact check this one-it's easy to do) and to enforce the security and protection of their client-base will always be a priority as the old adage goes " a happy customer is a returning customer" there is no better customer than one that comes back to buy again! This was a software driven, future grabbing day for Apple and I applaud them for shining brighter than Chrome's lack of clarity (OS/Hardware/Browser/TV dongle ?), Android partner's complete lack of innovation at the software level to simply make a better product. I personally own 2 Samsung products (an excellent 5 years HD TV that does not let me down, and an amazing washing machine that not only cleans better than the German machines but does so more efficiently. If Samsung ran their other divisions as well as their washing machine/TV divisions, maybe their cell phones would not suck as much....