Tim Cook need to the level for the first clip as Apple ’s chief operating officer , welcoming the crowd to the company ’s home office in Cupertino with an overview of Apple ’s recent history , work , and growth . Some notable stats admit : The Mac outgrow the personal computer grocery store by almost six prison term ( in the last four quarters ) ; more than 6 million copies of Lion have been downloaded ; the iPhone is experience 125 - pct growth vs 74 - pct for smartphones ; and three out of four tablets sold are the iPad .
Scott Forstall , Apple ’s senior frailty President of the United States of iOS software , introduces the caller ’s young Cards app . you could create and mail cards , forthwith from your iPhone or iPod skin senses . Choose from 21 letterpress designs , and Apple will print it out and send it for you .
Apple introducediOS 5at its WWDC keynote event in June ; Forstall went over all of the new feature again and announced an October 12 spillage appointment .
Eddy Cue , Apple ’s senior frailty chairperson of Internet Software and Services , walked the crew through iCloud . The service will replace MobileMe , and offers a place to salt away and synchronise your content across various devices . Like iOS 5 , it will be released on October 12 , for free . For more details on iCloud , check out ourcoverage of the Modern service .
Apple introduced a novel app called Find My friend , which let you track the fix of your friend and category . Users can only see locating for people who are sharing with them , and location sharing can be customized so that it continuously share your locating , or only lasts for a certain amount of time .
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller made the biggest promulgation of the daylight , revealing the newest iPhone — the iPhone 4S. It will be available on October 14 , in three size : 16 GB , 32 GB , and 64 GB . Learn more about the iPhone 4S here .
The iPhone 4S have a new A5 poker chip , make the headphone ’s graphics up to seven time faster than the iPhone 4 . To instance , Mike Capps from Epic Games demoed the party ’s new iOS plot , Infinity Blade 2 .
Photo pickings gets more advanced with the iPhone 4S. The telephone skylark a an 8 - megapixel sensor , 60 percent more picture element than the iPhone 4 , innovative optics , well color truth , and a new LED flash . Users will also be able to entrance 1080p HD video .
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller introduced Siri , a voice - establish helper built into the iPhone 4S. Schiller give examples for how to call for Siri about the conditions ; everything from “ What is the weather like today ? ” to “ Do I postulate an umbrella today ? ” will work . Siri read what you are asking , it gets the meaning behind certain words .
Launch Siri from the home plate screen and it will ask how it can help you .
Apple partnered with Yelp so that Siri can help users find restaurants . For instance , you may say Siri , “ Find me a Grecian restaurant in Palo Alto , ” and it will bolt down out these results .
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller showed off more of Siri ’s voice bidding lineament . It seems like Siri can do it all — agenda meeting and reminders , send text substance and emails , conduct web searches , get direction , set a timekeeper , check stocks , and more — without any typing .
Tim Cook give to the stage to roll up all of the event announcement . “ When you imagine about it , only Apple could make such amazing software , hardware , and services , and bring them together into such a powerful , yet integrated experience . I am so fantastically proud of this troupe and all of the squad that work so hard to take all of the innovations that you ’ve seen today to realism , ” Cook said , before give thanks everyone for attending .
