When Apple unveiled iOS 7 at WWDC 2013 on Monday, they spent most of their time talking about ten major features of the new OS, including a refreshed interface, better multitasking, and iTunes Radio. But, as with past years, they also spent a couple of minutes highlighting additional features that, while they enhance the user experience, don't merit a five or ten-minute explanation of of their own. The following is a breakdown of other features that we know of that users will see when iOS 7 is released:
The new Mac Pro isn't the only new Mac model with PCIe-based Solid State Drive storage. The new MacBook Air, which began shipping this week as soon as it was introduced on stage at WWDC, also uses the technology, according to Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac.
Guy English of Debug, Marc Edwards and Seth Clifford of Iterate, and Rene Ritchie of iMore team up to talk WWDC 2013 with guests Mark Kawano, Don Melton, Dave Wiskus, Dan Morin, Brad Ellis, Brent Simmons, and more! Also: Hall of Fame awards!
Marco Arment of the popular read it later service Instapaper has an interesting take on what iOS 7 means for app development and how it's a great opportunity to take advantage of an already saturated market.
Capping off the first week of Talk Mobile 2013, we gathered up the Mobile Nations Editors-in-Chief and hosts Cali Lewis and John P. of GeekBeat.TV to discuss how the week went down. Read on for our hand-picked comments from the week and thoughts on each from our editors.
Talk Mobile 2013 has been a long time in the works, possibly even longer than the interminable teasing of #TM13 we did in the weeks leading up to the launch. Now that the first week is out of the way, we'll give you a bit of a primer on how Talk Mobile is going to work going forward. As mentioned before, we've picked ten topics in mobile that we're going to discuss, attempting to move past the debates over features and specs to a forward-looking conversation about how we these advanced devices actually impact our lives.
In order to give ourselves some breathing room, we'll be doing these weeks every other week, so this week was about gaming, we're taking this week off, and next week Talk Mobile will be back to spark a conversation about, well, you'll just have to tune in to find out.
If you use iTunes U in order to view and listen to courses, you may have noticed that some of those courses have support for closed captioning. For users with disabilities, iTunes U also allows you to turn on closed captioning by default so whenever it's supported, it will use it.
The Incipio OVRMLD case is engineered with raised NGP barriers to protect the soft touch finish from unpredictable scratches and surface wear. The dual-injected design combines impact resistant, semi-rigid NGP with a rigid Plextonium frame. With full-coverage protection and fashionable color selections the OVRMLD case is perfect for the on-the-go consumer.
The Ashton Kutcher jOBS movie which originally should have launched on April 19, is actually set to release finally on August 16, four months later. Initial reactions to the movie were mixed to say the least, but in a couple of months time the general public will get their chance to see it.
To go with the new AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule announced at WWDC 2013, Apple is now pushing out an update to AirPort Utility for Mac. Version 6.3 allows you to set up and manage the new AirPort Express and Extreme, as well as the new Time Capsule. In addition, it also provides you with the facility to configure the 802.11ac WiFi on these devices alongside some enhanced remote management features.
Gameloft has released a teaser for the next installment in the Asphalt series, and it looks absolutely incredible. Asphalt 8: Airborne is due to land sometime this summer, but ahead of that we get to see some beautiful looking screenshots and this teaser trailer. The price has also been revealed, and it will cost us just $0.99.
