This year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC 2012, will pick up where last year’s event left off. It will introduce major updates to Apple’s mobile and desktop operating system, the cloud-based syncing strategy, and it will bring Mac hardware back to a Mecca of Apple’s top software developers for the first time in three years.
New Macs
There have been a lot of WWDC predictions, many made on information we made available. Over the past month and change, we’ve revealed the lion’s share of what’s now known about WWDC 2012, and we have some more to share in our highly anticipated WWDC 2012 round-up.
iOS 6
We break down everything you should expect into categories of iOS 6, iCloud updates, OS X Mountain Lion, and the exciting updates to multiple Mac hardware lines. Our complete round-up is available after the break:
iOS 5.0 was the largest single set of changes to iOS since its inception in mid-2007, making it a difficult update for Apple to top this year. That major software release introduced the world to iCloud, the iMessage platform, iOS Twitter-integration, Notification Center, Newsstand, and more.
iOS 6 will not top iOS 5 in terms of new features, but, instead, it will be a refined version of the easiest-to-use smartphone, mobile media-player, and tablet software on the planet. The indicator of the idea of a focus on refinements in iOS 6 is that the central elements of iOS 6 hardly differ in appearance from their iOS 5counterparts. The pick-up-and-play home screen grid of application icons, notifications, app-switching, and Siri all look like their iOS 5 counterparts.