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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