The Apple's conference on new thing coming out from Apple. To tell the truth I am excited to see what Apple inc going to announce this year that became an eye opener for all. Since the death of the great Mr. Jobs, Apple conference had always been dull, boring with their new CEO Tim Cook. Announcing the new iPad with all new but same old look and not even a wow is depressing.
But anyhow this time, I felt that they actually did a pretty fine job. Something make me wanna buy their product, some just pure "meh". Below is the round up of what's new in WWDC 2012.
Macbook Pro
Apart from the hardware update from the older Macbook Air and Macbook Pro and killing off the 17 inch model, Apple had actually build a new generation MacBook Pro. This time finally Apple managed to stuff in their trademark Retina Display on this 15" baby. It is slimmer and lighter than the previous 13" model! With 2 integrated USB 3.0 and 2.0 port, 2 Thunderbolt port and also a HDMI cable port. Blazing high speed ram and this time around flash storage for a Macbook Pro is greatly a yum yum product if you asked me. And best of all, it started shipping today! However the price is just wooping high. Oh well, better stick back to my older gen Macbook Pro.
Mac OS X
Mac OS X the ninth big cat of the family. Seriously Apple one year one new OS?! You got to be kidding me. By looking at this Mountain Lion seriously makes me think of Agent K in MIB, you know the poker face? Alright jokes aside. Basically I think that what Apple is trying to do is to bring what the user love about the iOS and put it inside the Mac OS. They had been doing this since the previous Lion. Now what are the things they brought in it.
1. Better integration of iCloud - hences better syncing feature between your other iOS with Mac.
2. iMessage - Now you can chat thru your MacBook instead of the your other iOS devices.
3. Notification Center - Drag it and you can view all your notification like mail, message etc.
4. Power Nap!? - Your Mac will still sync in your mail, updates etc when you put your mac into sleep.
5. Dictation - Speech to Text *about time =.=*
6. Sharing - now you can share your photo, website with the integrated twitter button!
7. New Safari - More Gesture and also iCloud integrated, more pretty overall.
8. Game Center - Game Center comes to Mac OS!
9. Air Play - Nuff said
Out of all these new feature, there are more to come but yet to reveil to the public. Oh well this new OS will be available on July at the Mac AppStore and pricing at only USD 19.99.
iOS 6
1. New Map from Apple! - Apple is trying to kick out Google in their daily life now. Providing turn to turn navigation and 3D view of Map. Hopefully this Map will be usable in Malaysia. Else is just plain boring.
2. Siri - Now siri knows more about sports, player cards, opening an app. It is now a more integration between the Apps and the OS. oh ya! Siri will be available on the new iPad as well.
3. Passbook - pretty neat app I think, having all the QR code when you purchase movie ticket, boarding pass, voucher in one place. And nice card scrapping animation :)
4. Facetime - now support 3G instead of only wifi!
5. Facebook - instead of just tweeting, now iOS integrates Facebook on it. meh
6. Phonecall - Instead of just declining a phone call, you can now fire back a message and even set an reminder to call back whoever is calling you at that time.
Apple usually makes me want to get their products, but they failed in the previous 2 conference selling out the new iPad and also the iPhone 4s. This one had made me want to give them my money. Not bad I would say. But still far from the Steve Job era.
