App Store Stats and Fun Stuff
- 17,000,000!
- 900,000,000 lighting connector devices
- 10 year anniversary of the Apple Music Festival, with Britney
- 140 billion app downloads
- 106% YoY download increases
- 2 times the “nearest competitor”
- 1/2 million games on the store
- Mario: Super Mario Run
- Mention ConnectEd!
- Everyone Can Code
- iWork
- Real Time Collaboration (only behind Google by how long?)
- But it’s prettier than what Google does
- Apple is the 2nd largest watchmaker now, and largest smartwatch maker
Watch:
- WatchOS 3
- New dock
- New faces
- Tapback messaging
- Animated stickers in messages
- Full screen effects, just like in Messages for Mac
- Breathe
- Emergency Messaging
- Developers
- Pokémon Go for watch
- 500,000,000 downloads of Go, 4.6 Billion KM
- Apple Watch Series 2: $369, Series 1 is $269
- 50 meters, new seals, new adhesives, speaker ejects water
- Redesigned SiP, 2nd gen display, 2x brighter
- 1,000 nits, great for sun
- Built-in GPS – exposed to the API
- Available in ceramic
- NikePlus watch
iPhone 7: $629 with Plus starting at $729
- Over 1 Billion devices, with the best selling product “of its kind” in the history of the world
- A video that left no dry eyes in the audience
- New design
- Jet black finish, black finish (my style btw), gold, silver, rose gold
- Force sensitive, solid state, taptic Engine-driven home button
- Homekit, home app, Works with “Apple HomeKit”
- Messages: Stickers, confetti, etc
- Water and dust resistant
- New dual camera, stabilization, f/1.8 aperture sense for 50% more light, six-element sense, 12 megapixel sensor, true tone flash, with 4 LEDs (50% brighter, with a flicker sensor to compensate for artificial lighting), 2x the throughput of the image signal processor (called by Phil Schiller “the supercomputer of” digital photos), depth of field
- Front-side camera: 7MP FaceTime HD camera, wide color capture, image stabilization
- 1x to 10x zoom
- 25% brighter display, wide color gamut, Instagram sent a rep
- Stereo Speakers on the phones
- Headphones via lightning or bluetooth, comes with a free adaptor
- Wireless: Apple AirPods, W1 Apple-designed wireless chip, intelligent high-efficiency playback, infrared sensors detect you, voice accelerometers target the source of your voice, and reduce external noise. 5 hours per charge, 24hours of life off the case, with incredible sound “a technical tour de force”
- LTE up to 450Mbps
- Apple Pay goes to Japan
- Performance: “Apple’s chip team is killing it”
- A10 Fusion: 64 bit, four-core processor, 40% faster than A9, 2x faster than A8, 120x faster than iPhone1. 2 high performance cores, two high efficiency cores, for longer battery life, with a performance controller, new 6 core graphics chip in the A10, for 3x faster GPU of the A8, for a total of 240x the performance of the original iPhone.
- 7 and 7 plus now go from 32 to 256GB of storage (yowza)
- iPhone Upgrade Program, includes a new iPhone every year, choose your carrier, starts at 32/mo and includes AppleCare Plus, now expanding to the UK and China
iOS 10 drops on September 13th 2016, OS X on September 20th, 2016.
Things not discussed re: iOS 10:
- Siri API (e.g. Wink, but also options for when I’ll use the Home app vs Wink – and waiting for Wink to integrate with HomeKit)
- All the fun new Messages options:
- Sketches
- Annotations on photos and videos
- Bigger emoji
- Effects in messages
- Messages app store
- Memories in Photos like I have in Facebook
- Better Apple Music and Maps
- The ability to manage the following with MDM:
- Callkit: managing the default app for Calls
- Moving some restrictions to Supervised mode (differentiating Corporate vs personally owned devices
- Notification APIs