2016-09-07

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

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