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:

• 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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