PLEASE NOTE: This is an unedited transcript of WWDC 2014. I didn't do anything to it.
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off its 2014 edition today in San Francisco. In a two-hour keynote, it will detail whats coming to its mobile and desktop software for the coming year. After last years overhaul of iOS in the look-and-feel department, speculation has been that Apple will focus this year on new layers that could encompass health tracking, home automation and mobile payments. On the desktop, its OS X is getting its 10th revision, which apparently will be called Yosemite.
Refresh this page for coverage of the keynote, which is happening now here. Forbes will bring you all the details throughout the day, along with extensive analysis of the new OSes and how they might change things going forward.
9:59 am: An enthusiastic crowd awaits the start of the keynote with plenty of modern music playing the in the background. A lot of the developers are happy to mug for the camera.
10:00 am: Apple opens with a video in which people are talking about the apps that they love. Daniel Libeskind, the architect who did the original design for the Freedom Tower (since heavily altered), raved about Paper. A baseball coach raved about using his iPad to help his players analyze and improve their swing. Patrick Kane, a student with a robotic prosthetic hand controlled by an app, called himself a big fan of being different.
The segment is really a salute to developers who make the apps and when it ends, Tim Cook takes the stage to applause.
10:05 am: Tim Cook thanks the developers and describes that its the 25th WWDC. He says Apple has brought 1,000 of its own engineers to talk to an audience that is from 69 countries and 2/3 brand new to WWDC. Apple has 9 million developers, up 47% just in the last year. So much for the theory that developers are looking away from Apples platforms.
Cook gives an important teaser that OS X and iOS will work better together.
10:08 am: There are 80 million Macs out there, Cook says. With PCs down 5%, Macs grew 12%. He says 40 million copies of last years OS X, Mavericks, have already been installed. Cook says no PC operating system has ever crossed the 50% adoption threshold so quickly. Windows 8 is at 14%, despite shipping a year earlier than Mavericks. Of course, there are more than 10 times as many Windows machines out there.
10:12 am: Craig Federighi, who was the on-stage star last year, is on stage to talk up OS X. Hes joking about the shift from cat names last year to place names. Suggesting Apple considered calling this years release OS X Oxnard, Rancho Cucamonga and Weed (all cities in California). Indeed, Apple is calling it OS X Yosemite.
The visuals of OS X are changing from what Apple has called Aqua and has defined the OS for years to something that looks a lot like iOS 7 if it was transported to a computer screen. Lots of transparency/translucency, similar typography, etc.
10:15 am: Check out that trash can, he says showing off the new dock at the bottom of the screen. The new OS looks a lot like the old OS, yet also like iOS. Unlike the mobile version, though, it appears Apple isnt insisting you guess that words floating on the screen are buttons, but rather continuing to define them with outlines.
10:20 am: Federighi is showing off the new versions of Notifications, Calendar, Messages, etc. None of these are breathtaking, but they certainly fulfill Cooks promise of integrating the mobile and desktop OSes in one key sense: It looks a lot like iOS 7. Moving between a Mac and iPhone isnt typically very challenging for people that do it regularly, but the increasing visual similarity between the two should make it simpler still. And for iPhone/iPad users that arent on Mac but need a computer, perhaps this small change will make it easier to switch to one.
10:25 am: Uh oh Dropbox! Apple has finally caved in and decided to let people store arbitrary files in iCloud. Instead of requiring apps to directly store documents in the cloud (as Apples Pages does, for example), iCloud Drive acts like a Dropbox folder, and its accessible on iOS, Windows and any Mac. No pricing yet for additional storage, but dont be surprised if things are changing.
Apple is also letting people send encrypted e-mail attachments that bypass mail servers and go straight to recipients.
10:28 am: Federighi is showing off Safari and talking about how much better its going to be as suggesting the right sites or bringing you to your favorites. Ive tried to convert several times, only to return to Chrome every time because of its near-magical ability to complete URLs instantly. Well see how this works.
A demo of Safari shows a new way of seeing all your open tabs at once and a simple function that lets you share anything in the browser window. Its also possible to draw on top of a photo youre sharing to annotate it.
10: 35 am: AirDrop finally works between iOS and Mac, furthering the seamless theme. Theres a new feature Apple is calling Continuity thats straight out of Star Trek. You are composing an e-mail on your iPhone, walk up to your Mac, and you can start typing and editing the same e-mail right there. This works in the opposite direction, too, allowing you to take work as you go.
In addition, your Mac will now automatically detect your iPhone and give it WiFi when its nearby.
10: 38 am: Apple has figured out how to make the Mac double for your iPhone. It will let you answer calls originally targeted at your iPhone right from your computer. You can use your Mac as a speakerphone, including dialing phone numbers direct from a web page.
Federighi demos some of this, including moving a web page directly between iOS and the Mac and then calls up a new Apple employee, Dr. Dre, who came on board with the Beats acquisition. Dre gets huge applause and makes a joke about when he should show up at work. NA
10:44 am: Cook is back touting 800 million+ iOS devices. 100 million iPod Touch, 200 million iPad, 500 million iPhones. He says 130 million new iOS customers in the past year bought their first Apple device. Many were switchers from Android, Cook says. They bought an Android phone by mistake, he joked.
97% customer satisfaction with iOS 7 and 89% adoption of it. Cook shows a chart where only 9% of Android users are on latest KitKat. He says more than 1/3 are running an Android version from 4 years ago. Cook says Android dominates the mobile malware market.
10:48 am: He announces iOS 8, a giant release. Two stories he says: User features and developer features (the latter may seem arcane, but its likely going to be important to users well see soon enough).
Federighi is back. Hes showing how Notifications can be interactive. Respond to a message, accept a calendar invite, etc. without leaving the app. He moves to demo mode quickly, suggesting the updates will be shown in small batches. Federighi shows that the interactive Notifications are not limited to Apples apps. He Likes something on Facebook from the Notification itself.
10:54 am: Federighi shows off Spotlight on iOS, and it again appears to be a shot at Google's bow. Youll get a lot of results inside Apples search, including app search.
10:56 am: Apple (at last) is doing something about the keyboard! Youll get predictive suggestions as you type and you can single click on the word. But unlike similar functions on Android, its not only based on the characters youre typing. If you type the meeting was the suggestions might be canceled and rescheduled even before youve hit any characters at all.
Like the Mac, the iPad can now double as a phone.
10:59 am: Group messaging has some upgrades, letting you mute a noisy conversation or just remove yourself from it. Similarly, you can give the conversation a name, see all the photos shared during a conversation, etc.
11:02 am: You can now share your location with people on an ongoing basis: for an hour, for the day, indefinitely. How this will work to remind you this is on isnt clear, but it can be powerful when you want to be find, either by colleagues at an event, or friends / family during a day out.
Messaging now allows you to insert an audio clip, along with bits of video. Those audio clips can be played back simply by raising the phone to your ear and can be sent simply by lowering it.
11:05 am: Federighi is back talking iCloud Drive, the Dropbox competitor. Hes talking up the seamless syncing of documents, but still no details on cost of storage. Hes also touting some enterprise functionality that allows devices to auto-configure for your companys apps, security, etc. one you remove you from the box; basically all the stuff comes from the cloud. He says Box, Microsofts OneDrive, etc. can be directly integrated into apps if a company doesnt use iCloud Drive.
11:08 am: The discussion moves on to health. The new HealthKit functionality and Health app will coordinate all your healthcare data in one place.
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off its 2014 edition today in San Francisco. In a two-hour keynote, it will detail whats coming to its mobile and desktop software for the coming year. After last years overhaul of iOS in the look-and-feel department, speculation has been that Apple will focus this year on new layers that could encompass health tracking, home automation and mobile payments. On the desktop, its OS X is getting its 10th revision, which apparently will be called Yosemite.
Refresh this page for coverage of the keynote, which is happening now here. Forbes will bring you all the details throughout the day, along with extensive analysis of the new OSes and how they might change things going forward.
9:59 am: An enthusiastic crowd awaits the start of the keynote with plenty of modern music playing the in the background. A lot of the developers are happy to mug for the camera.
10:00 am: Apple opens with a video in which people are talking about the apps that they love. Daniel Libeskind, the architect who did the original design for the Freedom Tower (since heavily altered), raved about Paper. A baseball coach raved about using his iPad to help his players analyze and improve their swing. Patrick Kane, a student with a robotic prosthetic hand controlled by an app, called himself a big fan of being different.
The segment is really a salute to developers who make the apps and when it ends, Tim Cook takes the stage to applause.
10:05 am: Tim Cook thanks the developers and describes that its the 25th WWDC. He says Apple has brought 1,000 of its own engineers to talk to an audience that is from 69 countries and 2/3 brand new to WWDC. Apple has 9 million developers, up 47% just in the last year. So much for the theory that developers are looking away from Apples platforms.
Cook gives an important teaser that OS X and iOS will work better together.
10:08 am: There are 80 million Macs out there, Cook says. With PCs down 5%, Macs grew 12%. He says 40 million copies of last years OS X, Mavericks, have already been installed. Cook says no PC operating system has ever crossed the 50% adoption threshold so quickly. Windows 8 is at 14%, despite shipping a year earlier than Mavericks. Of course, there are more than 10 times as many Windows machines out there.
10:12 am: Craig Federighi, who was the on-stage star last year, is on stage to talk up OS X. Hes joking about the shift from cat names last year to place names. Suggesting Apple considered calling this years release OS X Oxnard, Rancho Cucamonga and Weed (all cities in California). Indeed, Apple is calling it OS X Yosemite.
The visuals of OS X are changing from what Apple has called Aqua and has defined the OS for years to something that looks a lot like iOS 7 if it was transported to a computer screen. Lots of transparency/translucency, similar typography, etc.
10:15 am: Check out that trash can, he says showing off the new dock at the bottom of the screen. The new OS looks a lot like the old OS, yet also like iOS. Unlike the mobile version, though, it appears Apple isnt insisting you guess that words floating on the screen are buttons, but rather continuing to define them with outlines.
10:20 am: Federighi is showing off the new versions of Notifications, Calendar, Messages, etc. None of these are breathtaking, but they certainly fulfill Cooks promise of integrating the mobile and desktop OSes in one key sense: It looks a lot like iOS 7. Moving between a Mac and iPhone isnt typically very challenging for people that do it regularly, but the increasing visual similarity between the two should make it simpler still. And for iPhone/iPad users that arent on Mac but need a computer, perhaps this small change will make it easier to switch to one.
10:25 am: Uh oh Dropbox! Apple has finally caved in and decided to let people store arbitrary files in iCloud. Instead of requiring apps to directly store documents in the cloud (as Apples Pages does, for example), iCloud Drive acts like a Dropbox folder, and its accessible on iOS, Windows and any Mac. No pricing yet for additional storage, but dont be surprised if things are changing.
Apple is also letting people send encrypted e-mail attachments that bypass mail servers and go straight to recipients.
10:28 am: Federighi is showing off Safari and talking about how much better its going to be as suggesting the right sites or bringing you to your favorites. Ive tried to convert several times, only to return to Chrome every time because of its near-magical ability to complete URLs instantly. Well see how this works.
A demo of Safari shows a new way of seeing all your open tabs at once and a simple function that lets you share anything in the browser window. Its also possible to draw on top of a photo youre sharing to annotate it.
10: 35 am: AirDrop finally works between iOS and Mac, furthering the seamless theme. Theres a new feature Apple is calling Continuity thats straight out of Star Trek. You are composing an e-mail on your iPhone, walk up to your Mac, and you can start typing and editing the same e-mail right there. This works in the opposite direction, too, allowing you to take work as you go.
In addition, your Mac will now automatically detect your iPhone and give it WiFi when its nearby.
10: 38 am: Apple has figured out how to make the Mac double for your iPhone. It will let you answer calls originally targeted at your iPhone right from your computer. You can use your Mac as a speakerphone, including dialing phone numbers direct from a web page.
Federighi demos some of this, including moving a web page directly between iOS and the Mac and then calls up a new Apple employee, Dr. Dre, who came on board with the Beats acquisition. Dre gets huge applause and makes a joke about when he should show up at work. NA
10:44 am: Cook is back touting 800 million+ iOS devices. 100 million iPod Touch, 200 million iPad, 500 million iPhones. He says 130 million new iOS customers in the past year bought their first Apple device. Many were switchers from Android, Cook says. They bought an Android phone by mistake, he joked.
97% customer satisfaction with iOS 7 and 89% adoption of it. Cook shows a chart where only 9% of Android users are on latest KitKat. He says more than 1/3 are running an Android version from 4 years ago. Cook says Android dominates the mobile malware market.
10:48 am: He announces iOS 8, a giant release. Two stories he says: User features and developer features (the latter may seem arcane, but its likely going to be important to users well see soon enough).
Federighi is back. Hes showing how Notifications can be interactive. Respond to a message, accept a calendar invite, etc. without leaving the app. He moves to demo mode quickly, suggesting the updates will be shown in small batches. Federighi shows that the interactive Notifications are not limited to Apples apps. He Likes something on Facebook from the Notification itself.
10:54 am: Federighi shows off Spotlight on iOS, and it again appears to be a shot at Google's bow. Youll get a lot of results inside Apples search, including app search.
10:56 am: Apple (at last) is doing something about the keyboard! Youll get predictive suggestions as you type and you can single click on the word. But unlike similar functions on Android, its not only based on the characters youre typing. If you type the meeting was the suggestions might be canceled and rescheduled even before youve hit any characters at all.
Like the Mac, the iPad can now double as a phone.
10:59 am: Group messaging has some upgrades, letting you mute a noisy conversation or just remove yourself from it. Similarly, you can give the conversation a name, see all the photos shared during a conversation, etc.
11:02 am: You can now share your location with people on an ongoing basis: for an hour, for the day, indefinitely. How this will work to remind you this is on isnt clear, but it can be powerful when you want to be find, either by colleagues at an event, or friends / family during a day out.
Messaging now allows you to insert an audio clip, along with bits of video. Those audio clips can be played back simply by raising the phone to your ear and can be sent simply by lowering it.
11:05 am: Federighi is back talking iCloud Drive, the Dropbox competitor. Hes talking up the seamless syncing of documents, but still no details on cost of storage. Hes also touting some enterprise functionality that allows devices to auto-configure for your companys apps, security, etc. one you remove you from the box; basically all the stuff comes from the cloud. He says Box, Microsofts OneDrive, etc. can be directly integrated into apps if a company doesnt use iCloud Drive.
11:08 am: The discussion moves on to health. The new HealthKit functionality and Health app will coordinate all your healthcare data in one place.
