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Apple WWDC 2018 Keynote Outline

June 4, 2018 by Kenneth Jackson

Where Are We Going From Here – Whats New!

 

All about software!

Apple WWDC 2018

iOS 12

  • Free Update
  • Doubling down on performance
    • Available on the same devices as iOS 11
    • Improves performance of older devices
    • On 6+ Apps open 40% Faster
  • Augmented Reality new file format USDZ
    • Native Adobe Creative Cloud support
  • New App – Measure
    • Allows you to measure things with your phone
    • Automatically detects measurements
  • ARKit 2
    • Improved face tracking
    • Realistic rendering
    • 3D object detection
    • Persistant experiences
    • Shared experiences
  • Photos
    • Search Suggestions
      • Events
      • Search refinements
    • For You Tab
      • Featured Photos
      • Sharing suggestions
        • Two way suggestions
      • On devices machine learning
  • Siri
    • New App – Shortcuts 
    • Any app can expose suggestions to Siri
    • Siri Suggestions
      • Remind you to call Mom on her birthday
      • Remind you to text someone you are running late.
  • Apps
    • News
      • Browse Tab
    • Stocks App
      • Apple news in Stocks App
      • Detailed views
      • After hours pricing
      • Stocks app now on iPad
    • Voice Memos
      • Voice Memos app now on iPad
    • iBooks
      • New name – Apple Books
      • All new design
    • Car Play
      • Support for third party navigation apps
  • Distraction limitation features
    • Do not disturb
      • Do not disturb during bedtime – no notifications
      • Ability to set ending time – Thank God!!!
      • Instant notification tuning
      • Grouped notifications – By Topic or thread
    • Screen Time
      • Reports – Activity summery
      • How much time you are spending in apps
    • App limits
      • Set limits on specific apps with notifications
      • Reminders across devices
      • Parental reporting
      • App Allowances
      • Limits by age
      • Managed from parents devices
  • Messages
    • Animojis
      • New characters
      • Tongue detection
      • Memoji – Personalized Animojis
  • FaceTime
    • Group FaceTime
      • Up to 32 participants
      • Integrated into Messages
      • Prominence detection – Highlights the person speaking automatically
      • Animojis in FaceTime

WatchOS 5

  • Health and Fitness App
    • Activities App
      • Competitions
      • Awards
    • Workouts
      • Yoga
      • Hiking – YES!
      • Running rolling mile pace
      • Pace Alerts
      • Cadence
      • Automatic workout detection
        • Retroactive credit
        • Auto end suggestions – Yea!
  • Connectivity
    • New App – Walkie Talkie
  • Siri Watch face
    • Sports
    • Maps
    • Heart Rate
    • Siri Shortcuts
    • Third Party Apps
  • No Hay Siri! Automatic position detection – Double Yea!
  • Interactive Notifications
  • Integrated WebKit web content
  • Podcast App – Yea!
  • Third party audio – Audiobooks – YeaYeaYea!

Apple TV

  • Dolby Atmos
  • Apple TV App
    • Live Sports
    • Live News
    • 100+ Video Chanels
  • Zero Sign-on
  • Arial screen savers
    • Location information
    • Earth views filmed by astronauts on the international space station
  • Not much here really

macOS

  • mac OS Mojave
  • Dark Mode – Dark backgrounds
    • Xcode
    • Subtle changes to desktop during the day
  • Desktop Stacks – Icons arranged in stacks to remove clutter
  • Finder
    • New View – Gallery view
      • Makes it easy to preview 
      • Full metadata sidebar
      • Contextual quick actions
  • Screen shots
    • Easier access to tools
    • Screen capture for video
      • Record selected areas in video apps
  • Continuity
    • Continuity Camera
      • Scan images and documents from phone into documents
  • Apps
    • New App – News App
    • New App – Stocks
    • New App – Voice Memos
    • New App – Home
      • Siri support
  • Security and Privacy asks for permission for apps to have access to:
    • Location
    • Contacts
    • Photos
    • Calendar
    • Reminders
    • Camera
    • Microphone
    • Mail database
    • Message history
    • Safari data
    • Time Machine backups
    • iTunes device backups
    • Location and routines
    • System cookies
  • Safari
    • shutting down like button tracking – Yes
    • Fingerprinting – the ability to track machine based on configuration settings
      • Shows only simplified information to data tracking companies
  • App Store
    • All new design
  • Metal graphics processing
    • External GPUs
    • Machine learning
      • Create ML
        • Train vision and natural language models
        • Built in swift
        • Interactive Xcode Playgrounds
      • Core ML2
  • Are you merging iOS and macOS?
    • NO.
    • iOS apps on Mac
    • Multi year project
    • UI Kit
      • Trackpad and mouse input
      • App window stoplights
      • Window resizing
      • Scroll-bars
      • Copy and paste
      • Drag and drop
    • Starting with internal Apple apps
      • New App – News App
      • New App – Stocks
      • New App – Voice Memos
      • New App – Home
    • Coming to developers next year.

Filed Under: Apple Tagged With: iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS

Mac – Force Quit Application

May 28, 2018 by Kenneth Jackson

Command-Option-Escape

Filed Under: Macintosh

Outline From iPhone 8 and iPhone X Event

September 20, 2017 by Kenneth Jackson

This is a concise yet detailed outline of new iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and iPhone X features from the product September 12, 2017 Apple Event held at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California.

iPhone 8Plus Color Selection

iPhone 8 – All New All Glass

  • Glass back with custom aluminum alloy bezel available in Silver, Space Gray and a new Gold finish.
  • Retina HD display with True Tone
  • Touch ID
  • Wireless Charging!
    • Made possible by glass back
    • Qi (chi) open wireless standard
    • Fast-charge capable
  • Water and Dust resistant to a microscopic level
  • New Loader 25% louder stereo speakers with deeper base
  • A11 Bionic Chip – Most powerful ever in a smartphone.
    • Two high performance cores – 25% Faster than A10
    • Four high-efficiency cores – 70% Faster than A10
    • 2nd-gen Apple-designed Performance Controller – 70% Faster multithread workloads
    • Apple-designed Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) – 30% Faster than A10
    • Apple-designed Image Signal Processor (ISP)
      • Faster low-tight autofocus
      • Improved pipel processor
      • Hardware multiband noise reduction
    • Apple-designed video encoder
    • Secure enclave
  • iPhone 8 Camera
    • 12 MP All-new sensor with deeper pixels and a new color filter
    • Quad-LED True Tone Slow Sync flash
    • Optical image stabilization
  • iPhone 8 Plus Dual Cameras
    • Photos
      • 12 MP All-new sensors with deeper pixels and a new color filter
      • f/1.8 and f/2.8 apertures
    • Quad-LED True Tone Slow Sync flash
    • Optical image stabilization
    • Improved Portrait Mode
    • Portrait Lighting Mode (Beta)
      • Applies advanced machine learning to duplicate advanced studio lighting effects in real time.
    • Video
      • Highest quality video capture ever in a smartphone – 4K 60 fps
      • Apple-designed video encoder
      • Faster video frame rates
      • Real-time image and motion analysis
      • Slow Motion – 1080p 240 fps
    • Augmented Reality
      • Hardware and AR Kit software deeply integrated
      • Cameras custom tuned for AR
      • Low-light and 60 fps
      • New gyro and accelerometer
      • Accurate motion tracking
      • A11 Bionic Processor
        • CPU for world tracking and scenes
        • GPU renders realistic graphics
        • ISP real-time lighting
  • Wireless
    • LTE Advanced
    • BlueTooth 5.0
    • W1 for Air Pods, Beats X and Beats Studio 3 headphones
    • Wireless charging

iPhone 8 and 8 Plus Pricing and Availability

iPhone 8 – 4.7” True Tone Display

  • 64GB – $699
  • 256GB – $849

iPhone 8 Plus – 5.5” True Tone Display

  • 64GB – $799
  • 256GB – $949

Preorder 9/15 Available 9/22

iOS 11 Upgrade Available 9/19

Learn More >


One More Thing – iPhone X

iPhone X - Front Side Flat

“Biggest Leap Forward Since The Original” Tim Cook

Glass back with- Surgical grade stainless steal bezel available in Silver and Space Gray.

  • Super Retina display
    • Edge to edge
    • Corner to corner
    • 5.8” diagonal
    • 2436×1125 resolution
    • 458 ppi
    • OLED technology
      • One million-to-one contrast ratio
      • High resolution
      • Thinness
      • Brightness
      • Wide color support
      • Color accuracy
    • HDR display
    • Dolby Vision and HDR10
    • 3D Touch
    • True Tone display
  • NO HOME BUTTON!!!
    • Raise or tap the screen to wake
    • “Hay Seri” or press side button
  • Face ID – Facial authentication
    • TrueDepth camera system
      • Front camera
      • Infrared camera
      • Flood illuminator
      • Dot projector
      • Ambient light sensor
      • Proximity sensor
      • Speaker
      • Microphone
    • Advanced mathematical modeling of your face.
    • Neural Networks
      • Specialized hardware built for a set of machine learning algorithms
    • Neural engine
      • Duel-core design
      • 600 billion operations per second
      • Real-time processing of Face ID
    • Easy Setup – learns your face and adapts over time.
    • Works day and night
    • Can’t be spoofed with photographs or masks
    • Face data protected by secure enclave with on-device processing
    • Requires user attention to unlock
      • Does not work when you are looking away or have your eyes closed.
    • Chances of Random person opening 1 in a 1,000,000
    • Works with Apple Pay apps
      • To access Apple Pay double click on the side button.
  • Animated emojis tied to facial tracking from HELL! – NOT NUN SAFE!!!
  • iPhone X Plus Dual Cameras
    • Photos
      • 12 MP All-new sensors with deeper pixels and a new color filter
      • f/1.8 and f/2.4 apertures
    • Quad-LED True Tone Slow Sync flash with 2x better uniformity of light
    • Dual optical image stabilization
    • Better low-light zoom
    • Improved video stabilization
    • Improved Portrait Mode
    • Portrait Lighting Mode (Beta)
      • Applies advanced machine learning to duplicate advanced studio lighting effects in real time.
    • Video
      • Highest quality video capture ever in a smartphone – 4K 60 fps
      • Apple-designed video encoder
      • Faster video frame rates
      • Real-time image and motion analysis
      • Slow Motion – 1080p 240 fps
    • Augmented Reality
      • Hardware and AR Kit software deeply integrated
      • Cameras custom tuned for AR
      • Low-light and 60 fps
      • New gyro and accelerometer
      • Accurate motion tracking
      • A11 Bionic Processor
        • CPU for world tracking and scenes
        • GPU renders realistic graphics
        • ISP real-time lighting
  • Front Side True Depth Camera
    • Portrait Lighting
  • A11 Bionic Chip – Most powerful ever in a smartphone.
    • Two high performance cores – 25% Faster than A10
    • Four high-efficiency cores – 70% Faster than A10
    • 2nd-gen Apple-designed Performance Controller – 70% Faster multithread workloads
    • Apple-designed Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) – 30% Faster than A10
    • Apple-designed Image Signal Processor (ISP)
      • Faster low-tight autofocus
      • Improved pipel processor
      • Hardware multiband noise reduction
    • Apple-designed video encoder
    • Secure enclave
  • Improved battery life – Two more hours.
  • Wireless
    • LTE Advanced
    • BlueTooth 5.0
    • W1 for Air Pods, Beats X and Beats Studio 3 headphones
    • Wireless charging
    • New AirPower charging system coming soon

iPhone X Pricing and Availability

  • 64GB – $999
  • 256GB -$1,149

Preorder 10/27 Available 11/3

Learn More >

Filed Under: iPhone

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