Apple shared a preview of iOS 9 and introduced OS X El Capitan today at WWDC in San Francisco. Let’s roundup the day’s news and everything that was covered today.
WWDC 2015 by the Numbers:
Attendees from 70 countries; 80% first-time attendees
350 student scholarship winners (youngest was a 12 year old girl from NYC)
100+ sessions, 150+ labs; 1000+ Apple engineers
55% of active Mac users using Yosemite in 8 months
83% of devices now running iOS 8
Siri gets over 1 billion requests per week (40% more accurate over last year)
Maps gets 5 billion requests per week
App Store has passed over 100 billion app downloads
98% of all Fortune 500 companies have an iOS app
195,000 educational apps in the App Store; average person has 119 apps; 850 apps downloaded every second
Apple has paid out $30 billion to developers to date
The ongoing investigation into the $60 million ArriveCan app continues and seemingly never ends. Officials from the Canada Border Services Agency spoke in front of MPs at the House of Commons Government Operations Committee yesterday, sharing their accounts of what happened. "I do believe ArriveCan provided value for money. I don’t believe it provided best...
Reliable leaker @OnLeaks (known as Steve Hemmerstoffer) has shared some new 5K renders of upcoming Google Pixel devices, specifically the Pixel 9 yet again. The renders were shared with 91mobiles and we see some high quality images of what claim to be the upcoming entry Pixel 9, with rounded corners and flat sides, giving us...