With OS X Yosemite, Apple changed the design to fit iOS. Here are the icons of the two OS
iOS 8 and OS X 10.10
Today Apple unveiled the new versions of iOS and OS X.
iOS 8 comes with enhancements to the photos and messages app, interactive notifications, new Health app, extensions that allow apps to communicate between each other, widgets!!! (in notification center), continuity, family sharing, touch id sdk, icloud sdk, photos sdk, homekit.. Well, a lot of great features!!
OS X Yosemite comes with a stunning new UI, just like iOS 7 (and now 8), and new features like continuity, new notification center, maildrop..
Continuity is a feature that allows you to answer a phone call from your iPhone on your Mac or iPad, or iPod touch 5gen, receive your sms on iPad and Mac, and continue writing a mail on your Mac when you started it on your iPad.
For more informations, here’s the Apple webpage on iOS 8, and on OS X Yosemite
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OS X betas to everyone
Apple today opened the OS X beta to everyone. To get the latest beta of Mavericks, just go to this website and accept the terms and conditions.
iOS 8 leaked images
Here are some leaked images of iOS 8. We can see the “preview”, “textedit”, “watch utility”, “healthbook” and “iTunes Radio” apps, and the new safari icon, that are supposed to arrive on iOS with iOS 8. It may be fake, but it may also be true. We will have the answer on june 2, at the WWDC 2014.
iOS 7 running on 85% of Apple’s mobile devices
Apple updated the chart of the percentage of the different versions of iOS installed on iDevices, and we can see that iOS 7, released in mid September 2013, is installed on 85% of the iDevices. The newest release of Android, 4.4 kitkat, released in late Octobre 2013, is installed on 2,5% of the Android devices.
13 years ago, Apple started to ship Mac OS X 10.0
As OS X is about to reach his eleventh version, OS X 10.10, it makes thirteen years that Apple began to ship the first version of Mac OS X, who was a complete breakthrough compared to Mac OS 9. Mac OS X principals new features were the new user interface, named “Aqua”, and the foundations of the OS, wich was UNIX.
iOS 8 features
With iOS 7.1 released this week, the Apple developers can now focus on iOS 8, which will be presented at WWDC 2014 in june. The features we are expecting to see are speed improvements (more than what iOS 7.1 brought), a new app focused on health called “Healthbook”, new stock apps like “Preview” and “TextEdit”, a dedicated app for iTunes Radio and Siri and maps improvements.
Healthbook would be a completely new app with a similar interface to the Passbook app. This app would include several sections that offer information on Fitness, Diet, and Medications. It would also feature a Notes section, a Health Status section (this section would list blood pressure, hydration level and heart rate) and finally a Sleep tracking feature.
OS X includes TextEdit and Preview for a long time, and they gained iCloud features in OS X 10.8, two years ago. Some pictures on Weibo showed the icons of these apps on iOS. That would be a cool feature to have, although we already have a Notes app on iOS and iBooks to read pdf. If TextEdit and Preview are brought to iOS with iOS 8, maybe iBooks would no more support pdf files.
Yes, the icons for Preview and TextEdit are ugly and they don’t match iOS 7’s style, that why I think that these icons are temporary.
For the maps app, it would include public transit directions, allowing iOS users to get directions for trains, subways and busses. The feature would work in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York initially and eventually expand to other big cities in the world.
What to expect from Apple in 2014?
In 2014, we are expecting to see new iPads, iPhones, Macs, iPods, like each year. in June at WWDC 2014. iOS 8 will be presented along with OS X 10.10, a new Macbook Air, and a new AirPort express. Several beta versions of both iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 will be released during the summer for a launch in september with two new iPhone models. Probably two versions of the new iPhone 6, one with a 4,5 or 4,7 inch display, and maybe a bigger one with a 5.7 inch display, to compete all those android phablets, like the Samsung Galaxy Note. Finally in october we will see new versions of the iPad Air and the iPad mini, and maybe an iPad Pro with a 12.9 inch retina display, designed for professional usage. There will be also new versions of the Macbook Pro and iMac, and certainly an upgrade of the Mac Mini, which hasn’t received an upgrade since 2012.
iOS 7.1 is finally there
After more than 3 months of beta testing, iOS 7.1 has been released today. It has a couple new features like carplay integration, a lot of stability improvements and a few UI tweaks. Apple dedicated a page for this update. The last time they did that for a simple x.x update was for iOS 4.2 a few years ago, and that came with the iPad 2… Are we going to see an iPad Pro in April?
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