Apple WWDC 2015 News Roundup: What You Need to Know
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:
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- 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
Stories that happened today:
- Apple Aims High for Music Streaming Service: 100 Million Subscribers
- Tim Cook on Diversity in Tech: “It’s the Future of Our Company”
- Apple Building High-Speed Cloud Infrastructure, Upgrading Data Centres: Report
- Expectations for Apple’s WWDC 2015 Keynote
- Apple to Launch “Flipboard-Like Product”, Eliminate Newsstand: Re/code
- Apple to Allow Retail Store Credit Cards on Apple Pay: WSJ
- Apple Unveils OS X El Capitan: Better Performance, More Features
- Apple Unveils iOS 9 at WWDC 2015
- Apple to Bring Apple Pay to the UK in July; Canada Misses Out
- Apple Introduces ‘News’ App to Replace Newsstand in iOS 9
- iOS 9 Beta Download Now Available for Developers
- Apple Previews ‘watchOS 2? for Apple Watch with Tons of New Features
- Apple Music to Debut Worldwide on June 30
- Reproductive Health Has Finally Been Added to Apple’s HealthKit
- Toronto the Only Canadian City to Get Transit View in iOS 9 Maps
- Apple Watch to Get Activation Lock; New ‘Move to iOS’ App Coming for Android
- Apple Announces Swift 2.0, Will Make it Open Source This Year
- Apple Has Finally Fixed the Keyboard’s Shift Key in iOS 9 [VIDEO]
- Upcoming ‘Nightstand’ Mode Turns Apple Watch into Alarm Clock
- Apple WWDC 2015 Keynote Stream Now Available Online
- Quick Fix: Can’t Restore/Pair Apple Watch in iOS 9 Beta
- Apple Uploads Today’s WWDC Keynote Videos to YouTube [WATCH]
- 8 Things I Learned from Wearing Apple Watch for a Couple of Weeks: The Oatmeal
- iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan Install Requirements
- Here are Top 9 iOS 9 Features on iPhone and iPad [VIDEOS]
- 2015 Apple Design Award Winners Announced at WWDC [LIST]
- iCloud Drive App Quietly Debuts in iOS 9, Needs to be Toggled On [PICS]
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