![]() ![]() iOS 8 has some nice new features but feels more like iOS 7 with a few additions. Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite impressed me very much. ![]() Apple are not daft enough to ignore what their customers or future customers might want, so they adopt these and rebuild them in the Apple way. Some iPhone users might look at features from other handsets and wish they had them on their iOS device. However, you could look at it the other way. Apple have a habit of claiming everything they do is new and innovative, which is not always true. Okay, I might be an Apple user,- but I’m not blind enough to see that Apple do pull in previous jailbreak tweaks and features from other platforms. While watching the live WWDC stream, I was tweeting at the same time, and there seemed to be a lot of disgruntled Android fans complaining these new additions have been with Android for a while and are not “new” features. ![]() The iPhone 4 has been dropped, meaning the iPhone 4s is the oldest iPhone to be supported – good news for me once again, with my iPhone 4s. For a full list check out their overview page. This is a just a summary of what Apple are offering in iOS 8. Write an email on your iPhone, and if you are close to your Mac or iPad, you can swipe the icon and continue where you left off. One of the big end-user tools is the new HealthKit and Health app, combining all your health needs and health app data in one place.Ĭontinuity was fantastically demoed. The multitask screen now has your recently contacted people, and the keyboard now has predictive and suggestive words.Īs with Yosemite, iOS 8 now features iCloud Drive. Messages now has the ability to record and send audio messages. It has an enhanced Photos, making it easier to share pictures across supported devices. It may have a similar look, but it also has a plethora of new features. When Apple launched iOS 7, it was a bold new look, and iOS 8 builds on that. Good news for my Early 2009 MacBook.Įven better news is, once again Apple will offer it for free.Ĭan’t wait? Apple are offering the chance to sign up to be a beta tester. It won’t be released til later this year and hopefully – as with previous recent releases – they won’t increase the system requirements from the Developer Preview. This looks the same as the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks requirements. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer).A bit of digging online after the event reveals the system requirements for the first Developer Preview: The question on everyone’s mind – which wasn’t answered at WWDC – was system requirements. A revamped Spotlight, Messages with the ability to handle SMS as well as iMessages, iCloud Drive, HandOff, and Instant Hotspot. There are a host of new and updated features. ![]() It has a slick new look, giving it more of an iOS 7/iOS 8 look, which might not be to everyone’s liking, but I think it has been done tastefully – with the exception of some of the icons, such as Finder, which looks a little childish. It is officially Mac OS X 10.10 and code named Yosemite – and not Oxnard, Rancho Cucamonga, or even Weed, as they joked. Rumours of number changes and names were put to rest. My Early 2009 White MacBook is sitting on the edge of being cut off, and I was sitting with fingers crossed as they unveiled the new look OS, that it would be available for my Mac. Of all the announcements, the next version of OS X was the most worrying for me. News of the next version of Mac OS X and iOS 8 were guaranteed, as we saw them putting banners up a few days earlier. I, like millions of Apple fans, watched the live stream from WWDC 2014 in anticipation of what Apple would bring next to its loyal followers. Apple’s 2014 World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) brought much anticipated news of the next versions of Mac OS X and iOS. ![]()
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