Siri opened Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference which sold out in 1 hour and 43 minutes :o. Here are some of the jokes he started with:
“Hey, any of you guys been working with ICS or Jelly Bean. Who’s working up these codenames? Ben & Jerry?”
“Seriously, I am excited about the new Samsung. Not the phone, the refrigerator.”
Followed by an intro by Apple’s CEO Tim Cook.Here is a quick summary of the new launches in Apple’s WWDC 2012 :
- Upgraded MacBook Air : Upgraded to ivy bridge processors and USB 3.0 port included. 100$ price drop. (No retina display 😦 )
- Upgraded MacBook Pro : Upgraded to 3rd gen ivy bridge processors. Increased clock speed for both the processor and RAM ! New GPU is the GeForce GT 650M, 1GB.
- New next gen MacBook Pro : Has the new ivy bridge processor, SSD and retina display 😀 !! 15.4″ across, pixel density is 2880×1800. With 220 pixels per inch ! Termed as Apple’s most beautiful laptop. Has both the power of the MacBook Pro and elegance and sleekness of the MacBook Air !! It ships with next-gen Kepler graphics, GT 650M with 1GB of VRAM and a huge battery with 7 hours of backup!! It has magnificent speakers and USB 3.0 slots also. Also has a new revolutionary ventilation system. Starts at 2200$ and all these devices ship today !!
- New thunderbolt accessories and also Mag Safe 2 !
- Mac OSX mountain lion : Apple has finally mastered the 8th upgrade of OSX which will ship next month for 20$. With over 200 new features like notification center, integrated iCloud, power nap, etc making it a real competition for Windows 8.
- New Safari : Claims to load Javascript the fastest with improved search features !
- iOS 6: Comes with a deep facebook integration, improved Siri (Also for the iPad3), and many more features(200 new ones!).
- Also new : Improved facetime, VIP mail, passbook, new Maps and ton of features for China.
Tim Cook calls wraps up the show with a brief summary! Thanks for being with us during the live updates of WWDC 12. The video of the keynote can be found here : Video .You can leave your comments on our facebook page.
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