June 06, 2011
UPDATED 11:20 a.m. Pacific time -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs has taken center stage at the company's WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) to unveil the forthcoming iOS 5 operating system that powers its iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches; to provide more detail on the new Mac OS X Lion operating system expected to ship this summer; and to reveal what the new iCloud service is all about to 5,200 developers.
InfoWorld.com is covering Jobs's WWDC keynote live, so please return to this article to get the details as they unfold and the whole story once Jobs has finished his presentation.
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The next Mac OS X: Lion
Jobs has aleady detailed many of Mac OS X Lion's expected features in a preview made last October, and the company has posted more details on its website. Among Lion's key new capabilities of interest to business users are whole-disk encryption for both the startup and external disks, a new wipe capability for all data, full-screen applications, a new capability app developers can use so that documents autosave intermediate versions within them and that automatically locks documents from unintentional saves after two weeks of nonuse, a revamped Mail client that offers enhanced message threading, the ability to open applications and their documents where you left off when you restart the Mac, support for?iOS-style gestures?throughout the OS and applications, and a new navigation tool for applications and documents called Mission Control. Apple marketing VP Phil Schiller demoed these capabilities.
Developers can create sandboxed apps for greater security, as well as add in-app purchases to apps delivered through the Mac App Store. Schiller says Lion comes with 3,000 new APIs.
Mac OS X Lion Server is also to be made an optional install of Mac OS X Lion, no longer a separate product. Furthermore, Lion Server will add the ability to create configuration profiles for both Macs and iOS devices that can be delivered to users over the air.
Apple has said that Lion will ship in July. It will not be available on disc, just from the Mac App Store, with as many as five installs allowed. It will cost $30, $100 less than previous versions.
The next iOS: 5
iOS VP Scott Forstall revealed a new notifications capability that does not interrupt users with a confirmation dialog box. Instead, an auto-dismissing animation appears. The new Notification Center and revised lock screen show all notifications and opens the relevant app with a gesture. Twitter has been built in, as has the Reading List feature added to Lon's Safari for saved articles. Improved tabbed browsing is also promised.?
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